Today is D-Day (that’s D as in “deadline”) for Attorney General Eric Holder. It is the date by which he must turn over the bulk of outstanding Fast and Furious documents to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Failure to do so, GOP Rep. Darrell Issa has warned, will result in a contempt of Congress resolution that has more than enough Republican votes in the House to carry it.
In a last-ditch effort to stave off that vote, Holder’s friend and boss, the president, has granted the AG’s 11th-hour request for executive privilege over the 95% of unreleased classified documents relating to the failed operation. So far, Holder has turned over 8,000 of some 140,000 documents that shed light on the gun-walking case.
The decision by Obama to go to bat for Holder is interesting for several reasons. First, the move is unlikely to forestall a vote. Second, Obama currently has his own brewing scandal to deal with over alleged White House security leaks. Third, a recent Rasmussen poll finds that 40% of Americans think Holder should resign his post. Fourth, all of this is occurring five months out from the 2012 election.
If the contempt vote goes through today, the public spectacle that follows is certain to damage Obama’s image as well as Holder’s. Following a contempt citation, the AG will be arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House and brought to the floor of the chamber. There he will be held to answer charges by the presiding officer, Speaker John Boehner.
20 Jun
If House finds Holder in contempt of Congress, Obama will pay a big price
He just asserted “Executive Privilege” meaning he is involved.
A conspiracy to commit murder charge should be forthcoming.
Mexico’s Attorney General would seem to have strong criminal case against Eric Holder than Angela Corey against George Zimmerman.
On a somewhat more serious note our Attorney General appears to have engaged in an unconstitutional act of war against Mexico …
As was predicted here months ago, they thought they would be slick by stonewalling and the result would be it blowing up in their faces right before the election. As is typical with the politicians in general and the left in particular, they think they are much smarter than everyone else.
@Keyser Söze:
During the Watergate scandal, Nixon claimed executive privileges in order to refuse the order to turn over Oval Office tapes of his personal conversations. The SCOTUS ruled in The United States vs. Nixon that executive privilege didn’t trump the publics “right to know” and Nixon was forced to turn the tapes over.
Obama has claimed that his administration was unaware of the F & F operation. Now he is claiming executive privilege based on conversations among administration advisors who discussed how to handle the scandal, not that he had conversations with administration advisors on how to handle the scandal. This is an over reach on the part of President Obama.
Holder can still be held in contempt of Congress as he lied during his testimony, as well he should be. It is a federal offense to lie to a Congressional inquiry.
We must not lose sight of the fact that this investigation started out as basically an investigation into the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry as well as DEA Agent Jaime Zapata. It was only after that investigation started that the extent of F & F was revealed, including the clear violation of the soverignty of Mexico as guaranteed by treaty.
Basically, the President has injected himself into a scandal that, up to this point, did not lead to the Oval Office, only the office of Attorney General Eric Holder. Game on.
The media is actually reporting on this. Perhaps they think this is their chance to bury it once and for all.
This may have the opposite effect.
and OBAMA HAS JUST TOLD THE AMERICANS to put up with another group of illegals
to seek their jobs, which now is to 4 job seekers to one job available,
by opening the market to illegals,
he doesn’t give a dam about AMERICANS and the laws in AMERICA, HE DECIDED ON HIS OWN SELF, AND BREACH THE LAW OF THE CONGRESS POWER
WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU,
@retire05:
Thanks Retire05
Remember Watergate very well (I am 61) Hillary made her “cut throat political bones” as a Watergate investigator, who eventually was fired for her unethical and fraudulent behavior.
So Executive Privalage is the new Race Card for the Adminstration?
So far three times Holder has told the House Committee one thing or another only to have to retract it 100% later on.
He and Obama know the committee has papers from whistleblowers about what really happened.
All the committee wants are the originals that prove the copies they already have.
But….
Holder is in it up to his armpits.
Obama?
He sure wanted to USE F&F to overturn the 2nd Amendment.
But what did he know and when?
Obama only really cares about sports and getting high and living high.
So, he might have been involved only on the edges.
If the House votes a contempt charge against Holder I bet the race card comes right back to the surface.
Ugh!
By Obama using “Exec Privilege… he all but ADMITS he’s TIED IN….. May then both go DOWN IN FLAMES…. Obama is unraveling MORE each passing day….. anyone want to share a large popcorn as we watch the “fire”??
Shades of Iran – Contra with a difference. rather than supplying guns to rebels, Fast & Furious was about the ATF & Justice Dept (both who’s job is to enforce gun laws) aiding the illegal sale of guns to Mexican drug cartels who are indiscriminately murdering innocent civilians and government officials.
If House finds Holder in contempt of Congress, Obama will pay a big price.
If Issa’s ploy to smear President Obama just before the November elections becomes any more obvious, the whole thing may blow up in the GOP’s face. Does anyone believe that the White House didn’t figure out what Issa was really up to months ago? The man is a totally predictable political weasel. He’s using the power of the House Oversight Committee for transparently political ends. This will be pointed out.
@Greg:The family of the Border Patrol Agent Bruce Terry disagrees with you.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/murdered-border-agents-family-says-president-obama-compounding-this-tragedy-with-executive-privilege-assertion/
Sorry Greg,
When Executive Privilege is used to cover up, even most dumb dimocrats know the SC will overrule. The last time that happened, the President resigned. Here’s hoping….
If Issa’s ploy to smear President Obama just before the November elections
> this has been going on for 18 months now…… it’s HOLDER, than has DRUG it out till ELECTION TIME. so, YOU LIED!
becomes any more obvious, the whole thing may blow up in the GOP’s face.
> Obama TODAY, has invoked “Executive Privilege” .. effectively ADMITTING he has “a connection” to this… thus, ISSA was on the right track…the only thing NOW OBVIOUS.. is Obama’s NEED to CIOVER UP!! it’s blowing up, in Holder and OBAMA’S FACES.. so.. YOU LIED!!
Does anyone believe that the White House didn’t figure out what Issa was really up to months ago?
> of COURSE they did!! Hence, Holders LONG TERM stalling, and having to LOOK LIKE A FOLL, to COVER up, till the ELECTION passed… it didn’t work!! Thus Holder and Obama are the CORRUPT ones here…. so, you’re WRONG in you assumptions once again…. Greggy. Why DO you cling to Obama’s pants leg so??
The man is a totally predictable political weasel.
Obama And HOLDER??? AGREED!! LOL!! We’ve been telling you that for THREE YEARS Now, glad you’ve least at least a PINCH of STUPIDITY!! L M AO !!
Nice TRY, but you FAILED MISERABLY.. just like your personal “Messiah” has… have a nice day
This is the same weenie dog who wouldn’t allow any women to testify at his House Oversight Committee’s contraception policy hearing, as I recall.
Issa has debased an important House monitoring function, turning it into little more than a politically motivated Kangaroo Court. He hopes to move his production to a bigger venue soon–the House floor. Hopefully The Darrell Issa Show will finally come completely unglued on national television.
@Greg:
Do you ever get tired of doing the dance of the Dervish to try to make excuses for the “most transparent” administration in our history?
To begin with, this investigation started out as an investigation into the death of a federal law enforcement officer, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Due to the courage of whistle blowers, a number of whom have been suspended from their jobs by this corrupt administration, we learned that not only were F & F guns involved in the death of BP Agent Brian Terry, but in the death of Agent Jaime Zapata, as well, not to mention the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens. And what has been overlooked, and little spoken about, are the deaths of people in Arizona with guns tracked back to F & F.
Eric Holder is a disgrace and has managed to outpace Janet Reno on the disgrace meter. He has lied to Congress, refused to comply with Congressional demands for documents, and basically forfeited any right to hold the office of Attorney General as he is, at this point, an unconvicted criminal.
Now, I realize that the unethical Democrats are jumping up and down claiming that F & F started under the Bush administration thinking that they can pin everything done by the Cheater In Chief on Bush. Unfortunately, the program, Operation Gun Walker started under Bush never let guns across the border and were used to capture even low level operators. Facts, for Democrats, seem to be extremely inconvenient.
Issa’s “ploy” to to seek justice for DEAD AMERICANS, that you seem to have no problem with as long as it complys with re-electing the most incompetent president in our nation’s history. And what the Oval Office figured out months ago was that we, the American people, are not going to go away and if it means taking down a sitting Attorney General, so be it.
@Greg:
Once again, you remain totally clueless and uninformed. There WERE women who testified at the House Oversight Committee hearing on contraception, but since the lap dog media didn’t report it, you think those women were non existant.
Good show, Greg, you continue to represent the liberals with pure stupidity.
@retire05, #17:
I’ll say and do what little I can to keep some of the most dangerous, self-serving special interests in American history from totally taking over the controls of government. They call themselves “conservatives,” but they actually don’t seem to be bent on conserving much of anything, except for the mechanisms that have reliably increased their own wealth and power.
But seeking justice for them or for anyone else isn’t really what Issa likely spends all of his time thinking about, it is? His thoughts revolve around one thing and one thing only: How to get at Barack Obama. Issa might be a weenie dog, but he’s an attack weenie dog.
They are now voting for the contemp charge…
HOLDER charged with contemp…full vote moves to the House.
GREG
17 NAY 23 hi, the real REPRESENTATIVES of the PEOPLE have decided to put
ERIC HOLDER IN CONTEMP,
DON’T ADD NOTHING TO THAT,
NO YOU CAN’T
@Greg:
So now you are a mind reader capable of knowing what Congressman Issa is thinking, although you have probably never even been in the same room with him?
Well, let me apply my mind reading skills to Obama: right now, he’s thinking “Oh, shit!” but unfortunately for those of you who have just bought into the “smartest man to ever hold the office of POTUS” bullcrap, he just admitted that the President, NOT THE ADMINISTRATION, was privy to F & F information in spite of the claim by Obama, and Holder, that he wasn’t.
Obama could have skated on this scandal; all he had to do was throw Holder under the bus. But then, who would Obama get to negotiate release of Gitmo terrorists like Holder did for the Ouigers? Holder is dirty; he was dirty when he negotiated the Mark Rich pardon and he hasn’t gotten any cleaner since the Clinton Administration.
GREG
you must have lost your cool, you are now so angry that you attack the CONSERVATIVES
ON FA? TAKE A HOLD OF YOURSELF.
YOU FORGET HOW TOLERANT THEY ALWAYS HAVE PUT UP WITH YOU’RE LIES WHEN YOU SELL YOUR SIDE WITH SUCH FERVOUR,
EVEN IF YOU KNOW THEY ARE CORRUPT
@retire05:
Holder should fear for his life…Obama’s three gay lovers from Trinity Church, all died in 07, within six weeks of each other, two were shot in the head.
@Keyser Söze:
You reminded me of something.
You know how Obama likes to watch…..those drones kill the people he picks to die?
Well, looks like Obama is making laws so that he can watch prison rape videos.
The cost will be $6.9 billion.
And those costs will be passed down to the states.
Can’t imagine all these new regs and no videos, can you?
Not with Obama’s sexual background and his record of watching drone-kills.
@Nan G, #25:
The New and Improved crop of House republicans probably would never have allowed such a bill to pass.
@Greg:
Since it lays all the costs off to the 50 states I hope you are right.
But since when does Obama wait for a bill to reach his desk?
He can probably do a work-around on this as he has done on so many others.
Remember?
Obama couldn’t get ”cap and trade” through Congress so he ”went around them” and used the EPA.
Obama couldn’t freeze oil drilling in the gulf through Congress OR the courts so he went around all of them.
Obama wanted ”union card check.”
Congress would not go along.
So Obama used a ”recess” appointment to stack the NLRB with his guys.
Congress wasn’t even in recess when he did it.
Obama’s LFBC is a photo shopped conflabulation. Clever seventeen year olds have broken it down to its nine separate layers. His draft registration paperwork is phoney too. We still can’t see his college grades……what’s the world’s smartest man afraid of? Whatsamatter Barry? Too hungover to attend classes? Did Barry claim to have been born in Kenya? Was that how he got into top schools given that he spent his last two years in high school drunk and stoned? Was he just another affirmative action admitee? After all, his agent used a autobiography for 16 years claiming Barry was born in Kenya.
Just why can’t we see the original hard copy of his BC? Hmmmmmmm? Mr. Tim Adams who worked in the Hawaii records division of the state government and now lives on the mainland claims a serious search was made in 2008…..and there is no birth certificate. Why isn’t he being interviewd on MSNBC? Nevermind.
Something funny about this guy…..the good news is that when the truth dribbles out…..and it will…..the liberal msm is finished forever. It’s not just Fast and Furious that will finish this administration….the people are on to this guy and his scams.
@Nan G:
I read that article earlier today…just like the “Pink Swastika”…his mental makeup aligns itself.
VoteOutIncumbents
wow, much liked,
thank you.
GREG, why do libs, of your “ilk” ALWAYS support the CRIMINAL elements, and NOT law and Order and the Constitution???
Wow, Greg’s ignorance over this matter is astounding and the hypocritical “I’m liberal, I know what I’m talking about and you don’t” hypocritical stance sure isn’t helping him look intellegent.
If Eric Holder was AG to any of the previous men that sat in the Oval Office, the man would be facing possible jail time and being shunned by the Office. Edgar Hoover would have personaly had Holder arrested for what he’s done infront of Congress.
And to top it off, the White House has tried to grant an “immunity” to an issue they are not able to grant immunity to. Executive Priveliage is denied when Congressional Oversight Board is prying into Executive Branch abuse and fraud, as is Congress’s one of few major duties bound by the Consitution. This White house is just digging its grave for impeachment processes if the Senate leadership changes hands. And with the way the election enviroment is looking, the Senate may not stay in Reid’s slimy hands for long.
@Keyser Söze:
Hmmm, you read the Pink Swastika? I’ve got a few chapter to go to finish the book and I’m not quite sure what to make of it. It certainly makes a worthy argument, though I think it under-estimates the roles of the occult, Theosophism and Nietzsche in Nazi origins.
Typical leftist behavior
Rebulican does it= bad/evil/fascist
dem does it= great, wonderful, pure goodness
Greg is an excellent example. He will defend them 100% of the time no matter what.
The above still applies even when a Rep does what a dem would have done. The dems still bashed W, even though he grew government like they would have.
@Mike O’Malley:
Pointing out the the influence of the “Butch” homosexual mindset, by indoctrinating the youth of Germany and building it into an unstoppable army would be the aim.
You are correct about the occult being utilized during the Nazi rein…everything from astrology to the hunt for long lost religious artifacts to gain the upper hand. Nietzsche’s “God is dead” was necessary to cleanse the mind for the master race to maintain their power. Although Nietzsche did not promote anti-Semitism or nationalism, it would seem the Nazi’s took their cue from his sister’s edited versions to fit their narrative.
One thing is for sure…certain parallels can be drawn to the current administration.
The fact of the matter is the nearly every time one of these contempt charges in respect to executive privilege is filed, it never results in prosecution. So I hope all the words about this issue have served as an adequate discharge of emotion.
@ Liberal1 #36…. do you DENY, what Holder and Obama did with F & F??? Why do you DEFEND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY??
@ Mr. Irons #32.. EXACTLY
I hope the LATINOS DON’T BUY IN THE FRAUD HANDED TO THEM BY OBAMA,
THE POLLS WENT UP TOWARD HIM, AND THAT’S WHAT HE WAS AIMING TO GET JUST BY A PROMISES
HE CANNOT DELIVER, HE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED, BECAUSE HE HATE THE CONSTITUTION,
AND THE CONSTITUTION WILL WIN, SHE IS THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
AND THE LATINOS SHOULD NOT FORGET IT EVER, IF THEY WANT TO BECOME AMERICANS,
ONLY THE CONGRESS HAS POWER TO THE IMMIGRATION LAW, NOT OBAMA.
AND THE CONGRESS WILL SURVIVE OBAMA, BUT OBAMA WILL NOT SURVIVE THE CONGRESS.
@Keyser Söze:
Today’s Nietzscheans like to say so. Today’s Nietzscheans want us to think so. However while Nietzsche disowned the common anti-Semitism of the common man of his day, the German common man for whom Nietzsche had only contempt, Nietzsche imagined and introduced a new and more profound racialist anti-Semitism into Western culture. Nietzsche viewed Jews as the Ur-evil, the original powerful enduring racial source of corruption of his despised everyday mediocrity of the German common man. There seemed to be only one evil in Nietzsche’s imagination, the Jewish slave morality blocking the emergence of das Übermensch. The enduring racial source of that one supreme evil was the Jews in Nietzsche’s view.
When Nietzsche praised the Jews he, in a sense, was giving the devil his due.
Neither did the Nazis. The Nazis promoted Aryan racialism, a volkish ideology. For the Nazi’s the Nation and State were little more than tools, vehicles for the advancement of das volk, la raza, the race.
Nietzsche, Prophet of Nazism: The Cult of the Superman–Unveiling the Nazi Secret Doctrine
Mike O’ Malley
hi,
we know now very clearly, that HITLER LISTEN TO THE WRONG PEOPLE,
who at that time had seemingly power in GERMANY, HE must have been lure and impress by the power they had in those time and the radical ways to treat their people,
he should have pick on them instead, so the WORLD would not have so much invasive problems
to be stuck with today.
what a TERRIBLE mistake of judgement has been done by HITLER, LOOK AT THE INTELLIGENCE OF HUMANS LOST BECAUSE OF HIM. HIS THIRST FOR POWER
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Thanks for your blog post.
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