US HOUSE REQUESTS SPECIAL COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE ERIC HOLDER
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 12:21 PM
According to reports last night Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath about Fast and Furious during testimony to Congress.
Via FOX News Special Report:
The House Judiciary Committee announced today that they would seek a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Eric Holder’s misleading statements to Congress.
FOX News reported:
House Republicans are going to call for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is sending a letter to President Obama arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself and will request a probe by a special counsel.
The question is whether Holder committed perjury during a Judiciary Committee hearing in May. At the time, Holder indicated he was not familiar with with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program known as Fast and Furious.
However, a newly discovered memo dated July 2010 shows Michael Walther, director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, told Holder that straw buyers in the Fast and Furious operation “are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to the Mexican drug trafficking cartels.”
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regularguy commented:
Holders rapid departure from office would be cheap and easy if Obama had any political sense and honor to do so. No, we’ll have an expensive special counsel, instead.
This is our Attorney General we’re investigating, the highest legal counsel in the land, that’s both corrupt and inept. This administration is beyond surreal.
Sam Stone commented:
About time! Resignation is not the suitable end to this affair. Prosecution for the deaths of hundreds is.
big L commented:
what happened to #1
Patty commented:
Holder has his foot in this and he has a job of great importance, prominence but he has completely disregarded the integrity and importance of the position. He needed to be fired long ago.
He needs to be fired especially after his comments recently on closing Gitmo. He has literally hand cuffed law enforcement. Holder has no regard for the Constitution and that in itself says to me, only another person who has no regard for law enforcement could select him for the job. Seems we finally have from solid charges against him that will sooner or later convict him and implicate him in one of the worse embarrassment in our nation’s history. America deaths shall be on Holder’s head. This is treasonous.
Prof_Saiga12 commented:
Holder should have been tried for treason in 1999.
Since then, he’s done nothing but accumulate offenses against this Country and its legal system.
One can only wonder who will crater first: The Justice system or the Attorney General.
Henry chance commented:
Eric With Holder is dangerous. He is either dishonest or not reading the information he is paid to know..It was sad how when Arizona wrote a law on Immigrants he complained and under testimony admitted he had not read it.
Ron commented:
If that’s the case then he needs to be impeached, end of story. I doubt very seriously that The House Leadership i.e. Boehner has the cajones to do so, but this is a step in the right direction. For how many years did we here the Dem leadership talk impeachment during the Bush years? The Idiot -n- Chief should be impeached for Solyndra and a host of other malfeasances, but it won’t happen unless we get a President with guts and balls in the office come 2012. Romney damn sure isn’t going to do squat. Remember, he governs in the spirit of bipartiainship. Sound familiar?
gee! commented:
#6 bing
Yrral Dliefsarb commented:
Holder will be pardoned by Zero in exchange for silence regarding Zero’s involvement.
bg commented:
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flashback to November 24, 2008:
hah, as if Obama was vetted?? /s/
[You may not always agree with his political analysis but Dick Morris, perhaps better than anyone willing to talk about it, knows his Clinton-ology. Morris reminded us that Eric Holder played a leading role in one of the most infamous events of a presidency filled with infamy: the pardon of billionaire fugitive Marc Rich. Morris dubbed candidate Obama’s decision to select Holder as one of three people charged with vice-presidential vetting his “first clear, serious mistake."]
flashback to November 24, 2008:
A Pardon to Remember
WHEN President Bill Clinton pardoned a billionaire fugitive from justice
on his last day in office, even usually loyal Democrats were dismayed.
Representative Henry Waxman of California called it “bad precedent”
and “an end run around the judicial process.” He said it appeared to
set a double standard for the wealthy and powerful.
[..]
Under the rules governing pardon petitions — rules that were approved by Mr. Holder’s office — the views of United States attorneys “are given considerable weight” because of the “valuable insights” they have. And yet Mr. Holder did not consult Ms. White and her colleagues about the Rich pardon petition; they did not know of it until it had been granted.
[..]
Mr. Holder never came close to meeting that standard. He had the last
word at Justice on clemency petitions and he saw to it that he had the
only word. He brokered one of the most unjustifiable pardons that an
American president has ever granted.]
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bg commented:
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oops re: #11 October 4, 2011 at 12:48 pm bg
first link: flashback to November 18, 2008:
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AuntieMadder commented:
@ Henry chance: “It was sad how when Arizona wrote a law on Immigrants he complained and under testimony admitted he had not read it.”
With all of the constant BS being hurled at us on a daily basis by Barky and his administration, I had totally forgotten about that. It was, indeed, sad.
Stuart commented:
Firearms? Firearms? Oh! firearms. Pardon me I thought you said tire irons, and of course I didn’t know anything about sending 2000 tire irons to Mexico. Senator, it wasn’t perjury, I simply didn’t understand the question.
I have a hearing problem you know.
Pretty severe.
I misunderstood.
Really.
Mad Hatter commented:
Here is three simple steps the Republicans need to do with Fast and Furious, and Solyndra.
1. Keep up the heat.
2. Documentation, documentation, documentation.
3. Get the message out through You Tube, Talk Radio, Twitter, Facebook, and Conservative Blogs.
Sooner or later, the message will get out to more Americans, and someone will either come forward, or someone will goof up and lie like Holder did.
In the end, the general public will start having doubts about the honesty of this Administration, and more public opinion will slowly turn against him.
The drip, drip, drip affect works. Be patient, and don’t give up.
Midnight Rider commented:
It’s about damn time! And how about appointing a special counsel to investigate Obama’s obviously forged birth certificate and invalid social security number while you are at it?
Sooner or later we are going to get at the truth, and when do we will be holding those who ignored or poo pooed the issue of Obama’s forged and invalid identity documents accountable for misprison of treason and obstruction of justice.
Count in it!
mamagriz68 commented:
I really believe the walls are starting to crumble around this presidency. It’s all hitting the fan now folks.
43 Year Classroom Veteran commented:
Having taught in a California senior high school since afffirmative action arrived in 1968 with a 25% minimally deserving student population elevated to the pinnacle by affirmative action it is a certainty that Holder will not go away as he properly should. Holder & Oblame like the mediocrities I witnessed getting admitted to UCLA and other highly rated institutions with less than C averages and extremely sub-standard SAT test scores while students of less favored groups were denied admissions with far superior qualifications will hang onto their power positions believing they are deserving and entitled irregardless of their blatant prejury, criminal conduct, ineptitude, & abject failures.
Robert commented:
More Republicans need to come out and comment,
that would add to the seriousness of the situation.
If they all just wait for this one aspect of the effort
from Issa to go through, then it will fizzle out.
bg commented:
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re: #11 October 4, 2011 at 12:48 pm bg
Billion-Dollar Scandal Not Ready for Prime Time
[Jamie Gorelick was Deputy Attorney General under Clinton. Fannie Mae board member Jack Quinn was the attorney for pardoned tax evader Marc Rich. Fannie also has one of the largest lobbying budgets in Washington. A Feb. 24, 2005, article in The Washington Post reported that Fannie “paid its lobbying corps about $5 million in the first six months of last year.”
According to Jeff Bliss of Bloomberg.com, Fannie Mae spent almost $8.7 million on lobbyists in 2003. In May of 2004, Citizens Against Government Waste criticized Fannie for “heavy handed meddling in the legislative process to protect the company’s congressional protected status and its lavish corporate welfare program.”]
much more @ link..
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