Shocker. Obama Justice Department Won’t Prosecute Eric Holder
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, June 29, 2012, 3:28 PM
The Obama Justice Department today announced it would shield Attorney General Eric Holder from prosecution. Yesterday, the US House voted to hold Holder in contempt of Congress.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) discussed the case against Eric Holder yesterday.
Congress can still move to prosecute Eric Holder in civil court.
FOX News reported:
The Justice Department moved Friday to shield Attorney General Eric Holder from prosecution after the House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress.
The contempt vote technically opened the door for the House to call on the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to bring the case before a grand jury. But because U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen works for Holder and because President Obama has already asserted executive privilege over the documents in question, some expected Holder’s Justice Department to balk.
Deputy Attorney General James Cole confirmed in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner that the department in fact would not pursue prosecution. The attorney general’s withholding of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, he wrote, “does not constitute a crime.”
“Therefore the department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the attorney general,” Cole wrote, in the letter obtained by Fox News.
A department official told Fox News the letter was “pro forma” — or a formality — considering that ex-Attorney General Michael Mukasey in 2008 also refused to refer two Bush White House aides to a grand jury after they were held in contempt.
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Adirondack Patriot commented:
Then impeach Ronald Machen.
Ella commented:
Civil court, kangaroo court, I don’t care who will take his ass, as long as the Terry and Zapata families get justice.
wtd commented:
I’m stealing two comments from WZ and pasting them here:
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retire05 commented:
Doesn’t matter. Yesterday the House, by majority vote, side stepped the DoJ and appointed the General Counsel to represent the Congress in contempt charges against Eric Holder.
“Sec. 3. The Office of General Counsel of the House of Representatives shall, at the authorization of the Speaker, represent the Committee on Oversight and Goverment Reporm in any litigation pursuant to this resolution. In giving that authorization, the Speaker shallk consult with the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group established persuant to clause 8 of rule II.”
This give the Counsel to the House the ability to prosecute Eric Holder in court.
just-saying commented:
The U.S. government is now, officially, a farce.
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Rachelle commented:
The US Attorney who will not prosecute Holder for contempt of Congress is one of the same whom we are supposed to trust to investigate the national security leaks coming from the White House.
He has just proven that nothing he does can be trusted.
sandy commented:
One thing we are finding out this year is just how corrupt this administration is. Laws they don’t care bout no stinkin laws. Sweet November can bring about real change — Romney 2012.
paul52 commented:
So, Fast and Furious documents “do not constitute a crime.” Does this mean aiding and abetting in murder is now legal?
how dumbed down is the media bg commented:
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Heil Herr Holder..
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Rachelle commented:
By the way, after the Arizona case and now Obamacare Roberts may have given us a foretaste of what is to come when the U. Austin affirmative action case is heard.
We should scream like hell at our Senators the next time somebody tries to put one of the Harvard Law Cult on a federal bench at any level. These loons have been nothing but destructive to the rule of law and the health of the country. Get somebody from night law school who still has a sense of what work and law are. I am sick of these pampered Harvard a**hole leftists.
Rachelle commented:
Increasingly it is beginning to look as if Holder and his thugs also violated Arizona law.
The feds may not arrest him but Sheriff Arpaio might under state law.
I would love to see Holder on the chain gang in the Sheriff’s Tent City Jail.
By the way, The Zero might pardon Holder for federal crimes, but only the Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer, can pardon him for State crimes. Time to play nice with Arizona, Holder.
how dumbed down is the media bg commented:
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Kissinger: Obama’s ‘task’ is to help
create a ‘new world order’ (#47)
more @ linki, and a bit more here..
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kato commented:
And John Boehner already announced that he was not going to pursue criminal proceedings.
Once again, our Clueless Party a-holes concede prematurely.
Anyone who thinks a Clueless Party win in November is a big win for America is deluding himself.
SpideyTerry commented:
“ex-Attorney General Michael Mukasey in 2008 also refused to refer two Bush White House aides to a grand jury after they were held in contempt.”
Well, I’m sure Democrats didn’t object to that, either.
Neo commented:
From the Congressional Record [Page: H4409]:
From the beginning, ATF was transparent about its strategy. An internal ATF briefing paper used in preparation for the OCDETF application process explained as much:
Currently our strategy is to allow the transfer of firearms to continue to take place, albeit at a much slower pace, in order to further the investigation and allow for the identification of co-conspirators who would continue to operate and illegally traffic firearms to Mexican DTOs which are perpetrating armed violence along the Southwest Border.
The plan was to allow agents to track criminal networks by finding the guns at crime scenes.
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SpideyTerry #15 June 29, 2012 at 4:10 pm
how many people did they get killed?? /s/
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how dumbed down is the media bg commented:
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aah, i’m so freakin’ slow sometimes..
now i know why they jumped all over “Watergate” re: “Fast & Furios”,
they wanted to make US forget all about Iran Contra, which is more in
line with the actions that took place AFTER it was supposedly put back
on the shelf, back burner, or whatever so to speak.. gah!!
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Not So Good News . . .
Victor Davis Hanson
June 29, 2012
[Meanwhile, after a “disastrous” May and June, Obama is edging up again in the polls. For all the reports of his fundraising problems or his existential election crises, he seems to have many millions in key swing states to run class-warfare hits against Romney. The serial “Swiss bank accounts” and “shipping jobs overseas” don’t seem to be countered, and so are having some effect. If Obama is where he is after a disastrous 60 days, where will he be after a so-so next two months? Conservatives should not listen to themselves and their ingenious rationalization about how things are “really” swinging their way, and instead accept that the presidency, the courts, and much of Congress are doing all they can, as quickly as they can, with enormous powers at their disposal, to change the fundamental nature of the United States — and so far are mostly winning. All of the above should mobilize conservatives in 2012 as never before and open their eyes to the resources and zealotry pledged against them: November is really a sort of last-ditch effort in a way prior elections were not.]
believe ive been more & less stating the samo samo for
the past several years now, but what do i know.. *sigh*
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SeniorD commented:
Did anyone really think the Puppet’s puppet would ever see a court room? Really?
Everything about this regime is criminal, unlawful and dishonest. It’s a true Chicagoway Regime. All they need to do is wear snappy suits, fedoras and carry Tommy-guns to complete the picture.
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