Eric Holder is the first black attorney general, and apparently his number one job is
to preserve, protect and defend other black people, to the exclusion of all others.
The Department of Justice has never been so heavily politicized.
In the summer of 2010 a man named J. Christian Adams blew the whistle and said
that word came down from above to "Never bring another lawsuit against a black
or other national minority, apparently no matter what they
do."*
That sounds like institutionalized racism to me.
Related topics:
Preferential treatment of
the Black Panthers.
Black crime, black racism, and
black-only organizations.
Note: These articles are listed in chronological order, so the newest information is at the bottom of this page.
Expect Nothing from the DOJ
IG Report on Fast and Furious. It has been amusing watching all the anticipation about the release of the Department of
Justice Inspector General's report on Fast and Furious. Some folks in Washington actually think that it will be the key that
unlocks the door to the scandal. Balderdash. I've watched defective report after defective report come from the Justice
Department internal affairs units. In the end, they always protect the institution, unless of course conservatives are in the
cross hairs. If you think that the Inspector General's report on Fast and Furious will awaken the nation when it is released
next week, you better hit the snooze bar and sleep in.
Obama's Best-Kept Secret. If
Justice Department documents that Issa's committee seeks from Attorney General Eric Holder had been the subject of a top-secret meeting in the
White House Situation Room, their contents already would have been splashed across the media.
Attendees
of Eric Holder event think Operation Fast and Furious is a movie. Attorney General Eric Holder gave the keynote address at
a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Conference of National Black Churches on Wednesday morning. Following the
speech, The Daily Caller asked attendees what they thought of Operation Fast and Furious...
Read this article:
Meet the Radical DOJ Lawyers Suing Sheriff Joe.
Today [5/10/2012] the Eric Holder Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The civil rights lawsuit was filed by the notorious Civil Rights Division,
headed by truth-challenged Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez. Perez formerly headed the illegal alien advocacy organization Case de Maryland.
But the radicalism of the legal team aligned against Sheriff Joe does not end with Tom Perez. Let's meet the radical Justice Department lawyers who
drafted and filed this complaint.
Holder under fire. A respected senator says
the American people deserve a better attorney general than Eric H. Holder Jr. Mr. Holder's position is no, they don't.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, asked Mr. Holder to resign from his office.
Holder
loses his cool during House hearing when asked about Fast and Furious. A visibly frustrated Attorney
General Eric Holder slammed the table when responding to a question about Operation Fast and Furious during a Tuesday [2/28/2012]
budget hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.
AG
Holder Could Be Jailed for Ongoing Fast & Furious Cover-up. Tensions are rising quickly in the
investigation of the deadly federal gun-running operation "Fast and Furious" as Attorney General Eric Holder's
Department of Justice continues to unlawfully withhold subpoenaed documents. The persistent stonewalling
prompted Congress to renew its warning that contempt proceedings against top Obama administration officials
are imminent if the cover-up does not end.
Eric Holder's 'Fast
and Furious' woe. [Scroll down] But any personal instinct toward some common "executive branch"
empathy for Holder is muted not only by the dubious character of Fast and Furious, but by some of the attorney
general's other actions, as well. While out of office, for example, he famously called for a "reckoning"
for CIA officers and other officials who authorized and conducted operations that were edgy and risky and
intended to deal with difficult circumstances.
House
Judiciary letter warns Holder not to redistribute $335M Countrywide settlement to ACORN affiliates.
In a letter obtained by The Daily Caller, House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Lamar Smith warned Attorney
General Eric Holder not to permit the transfer of funds from a recent $335 million Department of Justice
settlement to organizations associated with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, more
commonly known as ACORN, or other advocacy groups allied with President Obama. Smith is concerned that
flimsy language in the settlement agreement with Countrywide Financial — the mortgage arm of Bank
of America — could be politically motivated.
Eric
Holder Blocks South Carolina Voter ID For Racial Reasons. Eric Holder has been on a racialist
bender the last few weeks. Last week, he said his skin color is responsible for the fury of criticism
over his Justice Department allowing thousands of guns to flood Mexico. Friday [12/23/2011], he blocked South
Carolina from implementing a voter ID law under the Voting Rights Act saying it was racially discriminatory.
Justice
Dept. rejects South Carolina voter ID law, calling it discriminatory. Friday's [12/23/2011]
decision by the Justice Department could heighten political tensions over eight state voter ID statutes passed
this year, which critics say could hurt turnout among minorities and others who helped elect President Obama in
2008. Conservatives and other supporters say the tighter laws are needed to combat voter fraud.
Voter ID Is Not Jim Crow.
As the government's chief lawyer, Holder is tasked with enforcing federal election laws in an objective, nonpartisan,
race-neutral manner. Instead, Holder parroted the talking points of the Democratic National Committee and
racial-grievance organizations, falsely comparing voter-ID requirements and other election reforms with the violent
efforts of state officials to keep black citizens from the polls a half-century ago. Holder claimed that
such practices "remain all too common." This comparison insults the heroic work of so many who helped
end the injustices of Jim Crow.
DOJ Finds A Cause.
In the end it couldn't have come as any great shock when the Department of Justice intervened on behalf of a Muslim
school teacher who claimed that the board of her Illinois school district was guilty of religious bias. ... Still,
even Americans accustomed to the relentless — more precisely the relentlessly selective —
political correctness of the Obama Justice Department had to have been startled at the facts of this case and the
deranged notions of equity that had impelled Eric Holder's DOJ to go rushing into battle against the school district.
AG
Holder Needs to Retract False Statement about Domestic Violence. Holder made a mockery of Obama's
pledge to keep ideology out of scientific inquiry.
Caution: NPR. This article reeks with left-wing bias.
Justice
Department Tougher On Abortion Protesters. [Troy] Newman leads Operation Rescue, a group that
protests at abortion clinics across the country. He calls this Justice Department's approach to the FACE
Act "a political tool to shut them up, shut them down and make them go away." "This is a ridiculous
overstepping of the federal government's bounds and with the intent of restricting our freedom, our liberties
and our speech," says Newman, who says he was sued under the same law by the Justice Department when Bill
Clinton was president.
Eric Holder's People.
The attorney general defends the Justice Department's mishandling of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case
in racial terms at the same time he says race had nothing to do with it.
'My People' and the
American People Eric Holder Serves. House Republicans need to put another item on their to-do list:
ask Attorney General Eric Holder for his resignation ASAP. Two years ago he insulted every American when
he called us "a nation of cowards." Yesterday [3/1/2011] in front of a House Appropriations Committee Hearing he all
but admitted he's not about to honor the Pledge of Allegiance's promise of "justice for all." Holder brought
his $28.2 billion budget request before the lawmakers and got to witness just how willing some people are to
have a discussion about race.
Bonner: BP
spill fund 'a monster' created by Obama Administration. Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) pleaded with
Attorney General Eric Holder Tuesday [3/1/2011] to do all he can to speed up the distribution of funds by
the system set up by BP in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill last year.
Holder ill serves his
'people'. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. played the race card in congressional
testimony on Tuesday, referring to blacks as his "people" while neglecting the rest of Americans. That
race-based lens pervades his Justice Department, causing consistently skewed enforcement of the law.
We, the
Unhyphenated Americans. My fellow Americans, who are "your people"? I ask because U.S.
attorney general Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase "my people" in congressional testimony this week.
It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obama Justice
Department's selective enforcement policies. It backfired. In pandering to skin-deep identity politics
and exacerbating race-consciousness, Holder has given the rest of us a golden opportunity to stand up, identify "our
people," and show the liberal poseurs what post-racialism really looks like.
Eric Holder's liberal
racism: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. should resign. He is a disgrace to his office
and to his country. ... Mr. Holder is the nation's top law enforcement officer. His duty is to uphold the law
and apply it fairly and equally to everyone — regardless of race. In other words, his job demands
that he be colorblind. By his own words, he has shown he is unfit for the position.
Dems Should Seek
Eric Holder's Resignation. President Obama's supporters should hope Attorney General Eric Holder
resigns. His embarrassing tenure has given Republicans a potent symbol of leftist extremism combined with
comic incompetence. This nasty blend is symbolic of the entire administration, as shattered expectations
of moderation and competence played a significant role in the midterm tsunami.
Forcing Holder out. The
calls have begun for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s resignation. Potential Republican presidential
candidates Newt Gingrich and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty both took that position last weekend in response to last week's
embarrassing result in the trial of Guantanamo terrorist detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailiani.
Ship of Fools: Obama's
Intimates and Advisors. [Scroll down] Holder was also instrumental in the "stealth pardons" of two
Weather Underground terrorists, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans (both closely associated with President Obama's terrorist
friends, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn). Rosenberg and Evans had been serving decades-long sentences for bombings
targeting American government facilities. Again Holder helped circumvent the pardon process and evade objections
from prosecutors regarding the terrorists' jail terms.
Obama
Should Think Twice About This Clinton Retread. Attorney General candidate Eric Holder
played a key role in the much-maligned pardon of fugitive Marc Rich.
Barack Obama close to naming
Eric Holder as first black attorney general. Although his appointment would underline to the black community
the transformative message of Mr Obama's own election, it would also amplify murmured concerns that promises to reform
Washington are being watered-down. Mr Holder, 57, was the deputy Attorney-General under Bill Clinton and embroiled
in the bitter controversy surrounding the pardon of Democrat donor Marc Rich after giving a "neutral, leaning towards
favourable" opinion of letting one of the FBI's "most wanted" go free on the former president's last day in office.
Eric
Holder: Crook, Liar, Attorney General. I watched as much as I could tolerate of the
confirmation hearing for Eric Holder to be Attorney General in the Obama Administration. He claimed that
his participation in the last minute pardon of Marc Rich was "a mistake" and that he had "learned from it, and
would be a better Attorney General because of it." The nature of his mistake was that he "did not know"
the details of Marc Rich's crimes and situation. Let's examine those claims.
Unpardonable:
Holder's Marc Rich Shuffle. Eric Holder's intercession on behalf of fugitive Marc Rich is so
inexplicable that he has always viewed ignorance as his best defense. It's as though Holder believes
that a deputy attorney general looks better for having remained studiously unaware of critical facts in a
criminal case before throwing his weight around. But that's Holder's story, and he's sticking to it:
even if it turns out not to be true.
Don't Confirm Holder. If the issue
weren't so serious for our nation, the irony would be delicious. Eric Holder, President Obama's choice
for Attorney General is justly criticized for many things. But the fact that he recommended that
President Clinton pardon and release from prison unrepentant FALN terrorists while at nearly the same time
advocating that law-abiding gun owners be imprisoned if their registration papers are not in order reveals
a hard core left wing agenda.
Eric Holder Approves of Bookstore and Library Searches... Where's the
Outrage? For years we've seen news agencies and opinionists rail against the expanded power of
the FBI to search such records. But, now with Obama's AG announcing in his confirmation hearing that he
agrees that the FBI should have this power, all anti-Bush administration voices are silent on the matter that
had them so exercised for 6 years.
Holder not questioned about Waco Branch Davidian siege. U.S.
Attorney General-designate Eric Holder was prepared to be bombarded during his Senate confirmation hearings Thursday
with a host of questions about a variety of topics, including his role as acting attorney general during a special
investigation into the 1993 Branch Davidian debacle. While he fielded questions about waterboarding terrorist
suspects and the 2001 pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, Senate Judiciary Committee members didn't get around
to asking about the Branch Davidian investigation.
Let The Witness Answer First.
Eric Holder seems certain to be nominated for Attorney General. Republican Senators are saying there will be
"tough" hearings during which they will "grill" Holder on his role in the Marc Rich affair, although it is not clear
there will be a serious effort to derail his nomination. I'd suggest that before Senators declare themselves
committed or not committed to giving him a pass, they get some clear answers from Holder. The questions are
numerous. Here are just a few.
Holder is Disqualified
by Mark Rich Pardon. Soon after Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, the former president and I had a
brief telephone conversation. I had been downright heated about the pardon, a lot angrier than I had
ever been about Monica Lewinsky. Clinton implied that I had things historically backward. Long
after the Rich pardon had been forgotten, he said, the Lewinsky scandal would remain a vivid memory. That day is
yet to come. The Rich pardon is back. The vehicle for this lingering echo from the year 2001 is the choice of
Eric Holder as Barack Obama's attorney general.
GOP
probes Holder's role in Elian Gonzalez case. Senate Republicans have requested information about
Attorney General nominee Eric Holder's role in the Elian Gonzalez controversy as part of a broad probe into
his tenure with the Clinton administration and potential ties to presidential scandals during that era.
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. The billionaire was Marc Rich, a
commodities trader, and his pardon is a subject of discussion again because Eric Holder, Mr. Clinton's
deputy attorney general at the time and a key figure in the clemency process, is reported to be Barack
Obama's choice for attorney general.
Will
Holder's Role in Lewinsky Probe Get Scrutiny? Transition aides, and much Washington speculation, have
focused on [Eric] Holder's brief part in Clinton's controversial last-minute pardon of fugitive tycoon Marc Rich as
a potential snare in confirmation hearings. But the behind-the-scenes role Holder played in the Monica Lewinsky
probe — a 10-month Justice Department ordeal — offers a much fuller record to scrutinize. And
like everything else with that polarizing scandal, Holder's shifting positions at the time are likely
to be judged differently depending on one's view of Clinton and Starr.
Obama's
Attorney General: President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general,
putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice
Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential transition. ... The sources said the
Obama transition team is still debating over who should serve under Holder in the key post of deputy attorney
general. One top candidate ... is Elena Kagan, dean of the Harvard Law School and a former lawyer in the
White House counsel's office under Clinton.
Why Make Holder Attorney General? During the
1970s and 1980s, Marc Rich made billions of dollars by trading with enemies of the United States, including selling weapons
to the Iranian regime of Ayatollah Khomeni and helping Russian mafia figures launder money from smuggling drugs and material
for nuclear weapons. He fled the United States and renounced his citizenship in order to avoid paying at least
$48 million in income taxes in what U.S. attorneys called "the largest tax-evasion scheme ever prosecuted." He
spent years on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list and even his own lawyer, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, called him a traitor.
In 2001, Eric Holder, Barack Obama's apparent choice to be the next Attorney General of the United States, helped arrange
a Bill Clinton pardon for this career criminal.
Specter
seeks to slow down Holder confirmation. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the ranking member of the
Judiciary Committee, wants to slow down the process of confirming Eric Holder attorney general, citing
lingering concerns about the nominee's role in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich.
Confirming Fears:
[Eric Holder] is convinced justice in America needs to be "established" rather than enforced; he's excited about hate
crimes and enthusiastic about the constitutionally dubious Violence Against Women Act; he's a supporter of affirmative
action and a practitioner of the statistical voodoo that makes it possible to burden police departments with accusations
of racial profiling and the states with charges of racially skewed death-penalty enforcement; he's more likely to be
animated by a touchy-feely Reno-esque agenda than traditional enforcement against crimes; he's in favor of ending the
detentions of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay and favors income redistribution to address the supposed root causes
of crime.
Holder
testimony on pardon questioned. Attorney General-designate Eric H. Holder Jr. told Congress
under oath that he had "only a passing familiarity" with the criminal case against billionaire Marc Rich
before President Clinton pardoned the fugitive financier in 2001 — testimony that is now raising
concerns among lawmakers reviewing Mr. Holder's nomination.
Questions Holder Needs To Answer.
President-elect Obama's choice for attorney general — displays a liberal ideology which often
conflicts with the Constitution, the war on terror, and common sense. ... The Attorney General is the chief
law enforcement officer of the United States. Before Holder's nomination is voted on by the committee,
he should answer searching inquiries that may reveal his unfitness for that post.
Holder defends Clinton's pardons for
FALN members. Eric Holder Jr. says President Bill Clinton acted reasonably when he commuted the
sentences of 16 Puerto Rican nationalists. The prisoners belonged to a group, the F-A-L-N, that carried
out murders, robberies and bombings. Holder said Thursday [1/15/2009] that those released from prison
did not carry out the violent acts, a statement that has been disputed by former FBI officials.
Terrorists killed my dad.
President-elect Barack Obama has nominated a man to be his attorney general who was closely involved in former President
Clinton's decision as he was leaving office to pardon 16 FALN members convicted on conspiracy and weapons charges.
Though no one was ever charged specifically with the Fraunces Tavern bombing, the FALN proudly claimed responsibility for
it amid more than 100 others. Its attacks killed six people and wounded scores of others.
Politicizing
Justice. How can we trust your leadership when ... you just constantly change the story,
seemingly to fit your needs to wiggle out of being caught, frankly, telling mistruths?" Remember
Sen. Chuck Schumer's skewering of Alberto Gonzales? Watching the bobs, weaves, and outright denials
of attorney-general nominee Eric Holder as he struggles to explain his inexplicable conduct in the Marc Rich
pardon scandal, one can't help but remember.
Incoming
Attorney General Hostile to Civil Liberties. Eric Holder, Obama's nominee for attorney general,
is hostile to civil liberties. He has previously expressed veiled support for using the misnamed
"Fairness Doctrine" to squelch "conservative critiques" and "conservative media," such as Fox News (which
Holder believes is anything but "Fair and Balanced," contrary to its slogan). The "Fairness Doctrine" is
designed to shut down conservative Talk Radio.
Did
someone mention the Fairness Doctrine?
Holder confirmed as
attorney general. Eric Holder was just confirmed by the Senate, making him the next attorney
general and the first African-American to be the nation's top law enforcement official. The vote was
75 in favor to 21 against.
Racism, Eric Holder,
my Son and Me. Enough is enough. I have had thirty plus years of enough. I have had
enough of being called a "racist." I will not sit here and be called a racist and a coward by a
self-serving, race-baiting politician like Eric Holder.
Give
Up the Racist Narrative. Dear Attorney General Holder, ... As our attorney general, you should
be teaching the citizenry that, as a legal matter, racial discrimination was outlawed decades ago.
Obviously, creating laws does not in and of itself stop crimes; yet that is true of all crimes. Instead,
you seem to join your fellow elites, including the president, in teaching the country that racism not only
still exists but is a fundamental and flourishing problem throughout America.
Eric Holder
is no healer. If anyone was cowardly about frank conversations on race, it was Obama and
his supporters in the news media. ... They're the ones who kept Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in a
storage closet for more than a year. They're the ones who spun themselves dizzy insisting that
the lunatic rants of Obama's minister Jeremiah Wright only made Obama look nobler. Obama was
the man who declared he couldn't disassociate himself from Wright and then did exactly that a few
weeks later when Wright's fanaticism had become apparent to all. And his administration is
now lecturing us on "cowardice"?
Holder scolded. Sen.
Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, gave a tongue-lashing to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. at a
June 17 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Mr. Holder deserved it. In less than five months
on the job, Mr. Holder already has called into question the integrity and independence of the Department of
Justice. Mr. Sessions — who broke with a majority of his Senate Republican colleagues on
Feb. 2 by voting in favor of Mr. Holder's appointment to the job — detailed a disturbing list
of the attorney general's transgressions.
Enforce the hate crime laws we have now, Mr. Holder. U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder ... wins, hands down, the 2009 award for the "Most Despicable Display of Using a Genuine Tragedy To
Advance Your Personal Political Agenda." ... Where did President Obama GET this guy? ... Exactly two days after Holder's
congressional testimony, a group of 30-50 black youths attacked a white Akron, Ohio family. Holder has uttered not
a mumble about this being a hate crime. This is the same guy who took the entire country to task or our "cowardice"
in not discussing issues of race.
Eric Holder's Justice
Department. [It is] surprising that in the first seven months of the Obama administration, a series
of hyper-partisan decisions, questionable appointments, and the inexplicable dismissal of a high-profile voter
intimidation case against the New Black Panther party have once again fanned suspicions that the Justice Department
is a pawn in partisan political battles. Both in Congress and among a number of current and former Justice
Department employees is a growing concern that the Obama administration is politicizing the department in ways the
Bush team never imagined.
Where's the
Outrage? Given the apparent political motivations behind so many of the recent decisions at the
Department of Justice (DOJ) — from the dismissal of the voter-intimidation case against the New
Black Panther Party to the re-investigation of CIA interrogators after DOJ prosecutors had already reviewed
the matter and decided there was no reason for further criminal prosecution — the latest news about
the dropping of the investigation against New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, Obama's former nominee to be
commerce secretary, raises a lot of questions.
President
Obama should fire Attorney General Eric Holder. Among the president's cabinet appointments, the
Attorney General is unique. ... The Attorney General's charge is upholding the rule of law — the glue
that holds together a self-governing people. In the latest skirmish in the Democratic Party's war
on the CIA, Attorney General Eric Holder has failed to uphold this fundamental public trust.
Civil Rights Commission
Demands Voter Intimidation Answers. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights sent a letter in August to Attorney
General Eric Holder, issuing a stinging rebuke to the Obama administration's Department of Justice (DOJ). A footnote
in the letter criticized the DOJ's dismissal of a Philadelphia voter intimidation case against a group called the New Black
Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBP). The footnote called the DOJ's voluntary dismissal of the case "even more
corrosive to the rule of law than the dismissal without comment."
Eric
Holder Won't Investigate His Radical Friends at ACORN. Attorney General Eric Holder has made it
abundantly clear he has absolutely no interest in investigating his radical friends at ACORN. Holder's
Justice Department released a legal opinion last week that allows the Obama administration to ignore the will
of Congress which has voted overwhelmingly to suspend federal funding of ACORN until at least Dec. 18.
Did
someone mention ACORN?
Lawmakers
hit silence on Panther complaint. Two senior lawmakers on Wednesday [12/2/2009] said the Justice
Department, after five months of "repeated questions," again refused to say why it "wrongfully dismissed" a
civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who were accused of voter intimidation at a
Philadelphia polling place during the November 2008 presidential elections.
Did
someone mention the Black Panthers?
The Law and
the Attorney General. We have seen an explosion of antagonism regarding the decision to bring
KSM and his cohorts into New York City to stand trial. This is not by accident either. This
decision by Attorney General Holder, and President Obama to bring these terrorists to New York is one
of three things: Incredibly naive, reckless disregard of the law, or treason against the people
of the United States.
Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted
Corrupt Politicians" for 2009. [Including] Attorney General Eric Holder: Judicial Watch
strongly opposed Holder because of his terrible ethics record, which includes: obstructing an FBI
investigation of the theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory; rejecting multiple requests
for an independent counsel to investigate alleged fundraising abuses by then-Vice President Al Gore in
the Clinton White House; undermining the criminal investigation of President Clinton by Kenneth Starr in the
midst of the Lewinsky investigation; and planning the violent raid to seize then-six-year-old Elian Gonzalez
at gunpoint in order to return him to Castro's Cuba.
A
sheik-up call for O's Justice joker. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano must be relieved.
Over the last few weeks, Attorney General Eric Holder has passed and lapped her in the race to be the most flagrantly
incompetent Obama administration official in the War on Terror.
How on Earth Was
Eric Holder Confirmed. Considering how easy it was for the mainstream media to get President
George W. Bush's attorney general, Alberto Gonzalez, out of office for doing what he was allowed to do,
why is Eric Holder being given a free pass? A better question would be: "How on earth did he ever
get confirmed with his dubious background?" One might suggest that political correctness had something
to do with Congress reluctant to reject the first African-American attorney general, but Mr. Gonzalez was the
first Hispanic attorney general and he was crucified.
Corruptocrat
Eric Holder's National Security Cover-Up: For more than a year, I've been writing about the
looming national security and conflict-of-interest problems posed by Holder's status as a former partner at
the prestigious law firm Covington and Burling. The company currently represents or has provided
pro bono representation and sob-story media-relations campaigns in the past to more than a dozen
Gitmo detainees from Yemen who are seeking civilian trials on American soil.
Identifying the Gitmo
Nine: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. seems to have a bizarre urge to stick his finger in
the eyes of congressmen. On subject after subject, he has refused to give substantive answers to basic,
straightforward congressional inquiries. In the latest instance, Mr. Holder's obstinacy could put
national security at risk.
Holding Holder in
contempt: The Senate Judiciary Committee has cause to consider finding Attorney General
Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress. During his confirmation process last year,
Mr. Holder withheld a tremendously important legal brief from the committee. Combined with a
series of other occasions on which the attorney general has stonewalled congressional queries, this new
revelation reflects so badly on Mr. Holder's ethics that it puts in doubt his fitness for office.
Eric Holder on the
griddle. Not since Watergate's John Mitchell has a U.S. attorney general prepared for a Senate
appearance under fire on as many different fronts as Eric H. Holder Jr. will face on April 14 before the
Senate Judiciary Committee. He deserves to feel the heat.
Holder Rules Out Death Penalty for Illegal Aliens Charged
With Murder. Attorney General Eric Holder has directed prosecutors in a federal conspiracy and
murder trial not to seek the death penalty for three El Salvadoran men who are in the United States illegally.
The three are accused of robbing and shooting Claros Luna on July 29, 2009 in Alexandria, Va., just a few
miles from the Justice Department, as Luna transported a prostitute from Maryland to Virginia.
Not exactly terrorists.
Holder compares Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to a mink rescuer.
Gen. 'Stonewall'
Holder. Serious concerns remain whether the Obama Justice Department attorneys, including the
attorney general and his closest advisers, complied with the full extent of their ethical obligations. Given
the stonewalling by the department, it is difficult to be confident the American people [are] receiving the
robust representation to which they are entitled.
Holder
hasn't read Arizona law he criticized. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has been critical
of Arizona's new immigration law, said Thursday [5/13/2010] he hasn't yet read the law and is going by what
he's read in newspapers or seen on television.
Holder
balks at blaming 'radical Islam' for terror attempts. Despite crediting the Pakistani Taliban
with fostering the recent failed car bombing in Times Square, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was
reluctant Thursday [5/13/2010] to say radical Islam was part of the cause of that and other recent attacks.
Holder's Got To Go.
Stumbling from one gaffe to another and showing little appreciation for our Constitution, Attorney General Eric
Holder has become a major embarrassment. Time to admit he's in over his head and let him go.
Eric Holder
accidentally tells the truth. As the old saying goes, "Ignorance of the law is no
excuse" — unless you are the chief law enforcement official of the United States of America.
Holder's
'Haven't Read It' Arizona Immigration Law Admission Gets Little Coverage. It will surprise
almost no one who visits this site that Holder's admitted ignorance about a routinely misrepresented
law — misrepresentations that have led to calls for boycotts of Arizona, a PC-obsessed cancellation
of a girls high school basketball team's hoop dreams, and hysterical hyperventilation at Holder's Justice
Department as well as by the President of the United States himself — has received very little
establishment media attention.
Video:
Holder Refuses to Say 'Radical Islam' Causes Terrorist
Attacks. How is it possible to prosecute the war against radical Islam when Obama administration
officials don't believe radical Islam causes terrorist attacks?
Eric Holder's Selective Ethics.
Attorney General Holder apparently only selectively follows ethical rules governing what prosecutors can say about
pending criminal investigations. Compare his comments on the Sestak scandal and the BP oil spill, only three weeks
apart...
After Eric Holder Gets
Pushed Under the Bus. Eric Holder has been a disastrous attorney general. "Classic 101
Boobery" was how one Democratic operative memorably called his decision, now on hold, to try Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed in a civilian court in lower Manhattan. Other blunders have piled up and the White House has
been repeatedly embarrassed by his string of ill-considered decisions and gaffes.
Does Barack Obama Have
a Learning Disability? [Scroll down] Eric Hampton Holder, Jr., is the Attorney General
of the United States. Holder is pursuing a lawsuit alleging that "the state of Arizona's recently
passed immigration law, S.B. 1070" "unconstitutionally interferes with the federal government's authority
to set and enforce immigration policy." However, during a House Judiciary Committee meeting, Holder admitted
to not having read the law, despite repeatedly voicing concerns about it, especially about "racial profiling."
His statements must have been based on hearsay.
Why Eric
Holder Will Not Last. There may be more incompetent Attorneys General who have served Presidential
administrations in U.S. History, but few if any of them have had a worse record than the present head of the
Justice Department. ... No over-reach will have been more embarrassing than the shellacking he is taking in
the DOJ vs. the State of Arizona.
Eric Holder's dirty secret.
A 2006 law that requires the U.S. Justice Department to deploy a high-tech system for catching child pornographers
has identified hundreds of thousands of criminal suspects — and collected extensive evidence pointing
to the locations of their child victims. Yet, despite knowledge of this evidence, Attorney General Eric
Holder has refused calls to take serious action.
The Decline
of the Justice Department. Former attorney general Michael Mukasey is not prone to
hyperbole. He's a former federal judge, a meticulous lawyer, and, as he proved in succeeding
Alberto Gonzales, a skilled administrator who restored morale to a Justice Department demoralized by
scandals (real or concocted). He is also obviously nonplussed by the performance of his successor,
Attorney General Eric Holder.
Why
Does Eric Holder Still Think KSM Is Just Another Criminal Defendant? In Brooklyn to announce
127 gangster arrests, Holder veered off message when asked about plans for the 9/11 plotters. "We are
still in the administration trying to work through how we will bring to justice those people who perpetrated
those heinous acts on September 11," Holder said. "Nothing is off the table as of yet."
Nothing off the table? Then Holder is off the wall.
Our Dangerous Attorney General.
Eric Holder should've never been confirmed as attorney general. Any man who would, as he did, urge
President Bill Clinton to grant clemency to 16 members of the Puerto Rican domestic terrorist outfit
FALN (a Spanish acronym for Armed Forces of National Liberation) was not only unfit to be America's lawyer,
but he himself should have been investigated. Yet Holder is, indeed, our attorney general, and his
priorities are exactly where we'd expect them to be: dangerous.
Holder's
ungracious punt. It took 500 days, but President Obama yesterday abandoned his ill-conceived
effort to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian courtroom. Attorney General Eric
Holder was none too gracious about it, however.
Why
Holder must resign: On Monday [4/4/2011], as Attorney General Eric Holder stood at the podium
at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington to announce that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11
terrorists would be tried by military commissions at Guantanamo, he still insisted that he'd much prefer to
try them in civilian courts. ... If Holder feels so strongly that bringing the terrorists who killed more
than 2,500 Americans to New York City for a civilian trial is, in fact, the morally correct decision, then
he should do the honorable thing and resign. He should clear out his desk in Washington, pack his
bags and, if he wants, go back to his old law firm, which represents so many terrorist defendants.
Bringing
the outside in at Eric Holder's Justice Department. Attorney General Eric Holder tours the
country proclaiming that he has "reinvigorated" the Civil Rights Division, compared to the Bush years.
Reporters never ask precisely what he means. The American people might not like answer. Holder
really means adopting outside activist agendas far beyond the American legal mainstream. It also includes
hiring a swarm of activist lawyers to advance an outside agenda from inside the federal government.
When
Eric Holder Earned his Spurs. [Scroll down] Then on Dec 5th, 1999, Castro clapped his
hands and his MSM minions snapped to attention. Within weeks Clinton's INS had turned its initial decision
on its head. Within months this same INS was kicking down Lazaro's door, pummeling camera men and elderly
ladies to the ground with jackboots and wrenching a screaming Elian from his legal custodians in a blaze of pepper
gas and machine guns. When asked for the legal authority for this, they brandished either a search warrant
to seize evidence that didn't exist (and would not have been hidden anyway) or an arrest warrant to seize
someone who no one claimed was a criminal or even a lawbreaker!
Holder vs. Holder:
Why does the Obama Justice Department seem to have trouble mounting a full-throated, compelling legal defense of
Osama bin Laden's killing? The problem for Eric Holder the attorney general could be Eric Holder the private
attorney. In 2004, Mr. Holder chose to file an amicus brief on behalf of Jose Padilla, the al-Qaeda terrorist
sent to our country by bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to carry out a post-9/11 second wave of attacks. In
the brief, Holder argued that a commander-in-chief lacks the constitutional authority to do what his boss, the current
commander-in-chief, has just done: determine the parameters of the battlefield.
Taxpayer
Funded Beer Bash, Ball Games and Scavenger Hunts at Holder DOJ. With the real unemployment
rate above 16 percent, it is a perfect time to throw a lavish party for high paid federal employees at
Eric Holder's Department of Justice. At least Eric Holder thinks so.
Eric
Holder's Laughable Idea About Politics and Justice. "Politics has no place — no place — in
the impartial and effective administration of justice," Attorney General Eric Holder thundered last week.
"Decisions about how, where and when to prosecute must be made by prosecutors, not politicians." As
usual, Holder sees "politics" as the evil motive of any body who disagrees with him. Like most elite
ultra-libs, he believes he is in a state of nature, his motives noble and pure.
Time to Fire Eric Holder. During
a recent speech at the American Constitution Society (ACS), United States Attorney General Eric Holder
lauded our American civilian court system as "our most effective terror-fighting weapon." Holder's
address, along with his whole attorney general career, reflects a flawed ideology that believes wrapping
enemy combatants in the American flag will somehow steer them towards full disclosure.
Justice Has Never Been High
on Eric Holder's Docket. Although Eric Holder, who cannot conceal his visceral contempt for
conservatives, heads the U.S. Department of Justice, doing the right thing isn't high on his list of
priorities. As Barack Obama gears up to use the White House (illegally?) for fundraising purposes, a
case in point is the "maxed out" donors scandal.
Attorney
General Eric Holder wasted a two-year investigation. A special prosecutor has dashed the
fondest hopes of opponents of the war on terror by concluding that the CIA's program of so-called enhanced
interrogations of Al Qaeda operatives after 9/11 was not shot through with criminality after all.
Investigator John Durham's finding confirms that Attorney General Eric Holder sent him on a wrongheaded
mission in ordering a "preliminary review" of whether agents violated the law.
Bordergate? Did Eric Holder lie to Congress? Does
Obama know? Eric Holder testified that he "probably" only learned about Gunrunner in "the last
few weeks," but took credit for it in 2009. President Obama, who provided $10 million "stimulus"
money and $11 million for 2011, says neither of them knew about it At a May 3 House Judiciary
Committee hearing, Attorney General Holder, under questioning by House Oversight and Government Reform
Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), testified that he had "probably" only learned about Operation Fast and
Furious in "the last few weeks."
It's time for
Labor Secretary Solis to go. Thanks to his dogged insistence on prosecuting 9/11 conspirators
in civilian courts and his refusal to prosecute the Philadelphia New Black Panther case, Attorney General
Eric Holder has long appeared to us as President Obama's worst Cabinet appointment.
Attorney
General Holder's credibility takes another hit. An email cited in Senator Charles Grassley's
testimony in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Operation Fast and Furious
indicates that knowledge of the program was spread across the highest levels of the Justice Department.
This lends even greater suspicion to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's claim that he knew nothing about the
program until well after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed.
Eric
Holder's Newest Witch Hunt. According to IBD, the DOJ has ordered banks to advertise that
minorities cannot be turned down for a loan "because they receive public aid, such as unemployment benefits,
welfare payments or food stamps." No job; no problem! In other words, the DOJ is forcing banks
to make loans to people that they know don't qualify for them and likely won't be able to afford to repay
them, which is precisely the kind of failed public policy that precipitated the financial collapse and recession
in 2008.
DOJ
Will Not Investigate Attack of Civil Rights Activist. If you needed any more evidence of the
level of corruption that exists inside the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) when it comes to enforcing
civil rights statutes, here it is.
Don't
Dial DOJ for Voter Fraud Protection. If you thought the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney
General Eric Holder was already shockingly biased toward far-left causes, get ready for a more permanent
problem. As Hans A. von Spakovsky has outlined in the first of five articles for Pajamas
Media about DOJ's Civil Rights Division, Holder has hired 16 civil service employees — not
political appointees — in the Voting Rights Section. This means they will be part of the
permanent bureaucracy. It's part of an overall trend of loading the Civil Rights Division with
card-carrying leftists despite Holder's promise to hire qualified people regardless of ideology.
Part 1:
The
Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder's Voting Section. Recently released documents -- disclosed
by the Obama Justice Department only after a court battle -- reveal that the Civil Rights Division
at the Department of Justice is engaging in politicized hiring in the career civil service ranks.
Typical Washington behavior, you say? Except the hiring in question is nearly unprecedented in scope and
significantly eclipses anything the Bush administration was even accused of doing.
Part 2:
The
Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder's Voting Section. PJM has been investigating an unprecedented
hiring blitz by the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department since Obama's inauguration. In these
lean economic times, Eric Holder went on a hiring frenzy, bringing over 130 high-paid government attorneys onto
the federal payroll. After the Bush administration was accused of hiring some attorneys for ideological
reasons, PJM requested the resumes of the new Obama hires back in the summer of 2010. The Bush
administration satisfied similar media requests within weeks, but a lawsuit had to be filed to dislodge the
resumes from the Most Transparent Administration in History.
Part 3:
The
Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder's Immigration Office. Five attorneys have been hired into the
"Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices" since Attorney General Holder
took office, each one more radical than the next.
Fast
and Furious Scandal Rocks Obama DOJ. I don't believe we've seen a more corrupt, politicized
and incompetent Department of Justice (DOJ) in modern political history than we have now under President
Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. And I never thought I'd write those words after suffering
eight years of Attorney General Janet Reno during the Clinton administration.
Issa doubts Eric Holder 'didn't know' about Fast and Furious.
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa went after Attorney General Eric Holder on national
conservative radio host Laura Ingraham's show Monday morning [9/12/2011]. Issa said even if Holder really
didn't know about Operation Fast and Furious, he should've. "We have a paper trail of so many people knowing
that the only way the attorney general didn't know is he made sure he didn't want to know," Issa said.
"But if you don't want to know something of this sort then you shouldn't have the job he has. And
ultimately one of the questions is, if he didn't know, is he that inept that he is dangerous to have as
the attorney general, and that is for the president to decide."
Issa:
Holder so 'inept he is dangerous'. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said that
Attorney General Eric Holder is so "inept that he is dangerous to have as the Attorney
General" and that President Obama should consider removing him from office. Issa
made the comments on the Laura Ingraham show while commenting about the controversial
"Fast and Furious" gun-tracking program.
Deep Corruption at the
Obama Justice Department. [Scroll down] Buried in Christian Adams' latest story on this
scandal comes what should be an incredibly explosive allegation: "Worse, Loretta King, while serving
as the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights at the outset of the Obama administration, ordered
the resumes of highly qualified applicants to be rejected only because they didn't have political or left-wing
civil rights experience. Multiple DOJ sources with direct knowledge of hiring committee practices have
confirmed this to me." Where, oh where are the New York Times and the Washington Post? This is a
direct violation of the law that these "news" organizations are deliberately ignoring.
Obama's third war on Fox News.
President Obama is using the Department of Justice to attack the parent company of Fox News as he springs his
third War on Fox News.
Lawmakers
Claim Justice Inspector Obstructed Probe Into 'Fast and Furious'. The inspector general of the
Department of Justice undermined and obstructed a congressional investigation by releasing secret tape
recordings that corroborate allegations of misconduct in "Operation Fast and Furious," according to a
letter written by Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley.
Republicans
Step Up Pressure on Holder. The new inquiry comes from Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking
Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. Despite recent personnel changes at the Justice Department,
Smith told Holder in a letter Friday [9/23/2011] the department cannot "pin this scandal on a few individuals
and expect it to be forgotten."
Fast and Furious: Justice's
obstruction. The inherently suspect nature of the Justice Department's internal Operation Fast
and Furious probe is magnified by Justice's acting inspector general giving pertinent audio recordings to potential
witnesses. ... On the tapes, the ATF case agent and a federal firearms licensee discuss obstructing the
independent inquiry led by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa and
Sen. Charles Grassley, senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Did
Media Matters Collude With DOJ On Black Panther Story? When news broke of alleged voter intimidation
involving the New Black Panthers Party in the 2008 election, Media Matters for America (MMfA) launched a relentless
push back against the charges, resulting in almost 8,000 MMfA site specific Google hits in which MMfA attacked
virtually anyone who attempted to report on the controversy, while elevating any reporting that minimized it,
or the Department of Justice's decision to drop the case.
New
book calls out 'racial agenda of the Obama Justice Department'. President Barack Obama and
Attorney General Eric Holder face fiery race-based criticisms in a new book about their selective enforcement
of civil rights. In "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department," former
Department of Justice Civil Rights Division attorney J. Christian Adams describes how racist radicals
have hijacked the DOJ and rarely enforce laws when it's not politically beneficial for them to do so.
Indict Eric Holder.
A major-league pitcher was indicted for lying to Congress about steroid use. Administration memos show
Eric Holder lied about what he knew about Fast and Furious and when he knew it. What's the difference?
GOP
Says Eric Holder is 'Either Incompetent' or 'Misleading Congress'. Twice in 2010, Attorney
General Eric Holder received memos referencing the Fast and Furious program, memos that seemingly undermine
the letter of his May 3, 2010 testimony that he heard about the Fast and Furious program over the
previous few weeks. Justice Department officials acknowledge that the memos to Holder reference
Fast and Furious as an operation — but they argue the memos do not include details about
tactics that allowed guns to cross the border.
Holder 'less than candid,' misled in Fast and Furious testimony.
Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz told The Daily Caller on Tuesday [10/4/2011] that he believes
Attorney General Eric Holder misled him and the rest of the House judiciary committee during his May 3
testimony. Chaffetz questions how honest Holder has been throughout congressional inquiries into
Operation Fast and Furious. And now the House Judiciary Committee chairman has called for the
appointment of a special counsel to investigate.
House
Republicans to Request Special Counsel to Probe Holder on 'Fast and Furious'. House Republicans
are calling for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Eric Holder misled Congress 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, was sending a letter to President Obama on Tuesday
[10/4/2011] arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself, and requesting the president instruct the
Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel.
Memo:
Holder told of 'Fast and Furious' as early as July 2010. Newly obtained Justice Department memos
show that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was told about the controversial "Fast and Furious" weapons
investigation as early as July 2010, apparently contradicting testimony he gave before a House committee in
May saying he learned of the operation just weeks earlier.
Holder
backpedals on Fast & Furious. Attorney General Eric Holder's furious backpedaling —
he is now claiming that he might have known about the Fast & Furious gun-running scandal last year, but didn't
hear any of the details — is entertaining to watch, even if the subject is deadly serious.
CBS
News Reporter Says White House Screamed, Swore at Her. The latest development centers around
whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about having knowledge of the controversial gun
trafficking operation. ... What's more, CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson — who's
been covering the scandal from the beginning — says in an interview on the Laura Ingraham Show
today that [two people at] the White House and Justice Department have taken to screaming at her for
reporting on the story.
White
House very nervous about coverage of Fast and Furious. This has become an extremely sensitive
issue at the White House and for good reason; Holder may have been caught in a lie in his testimony before
Congress. Note: Congressional perjury usually sends the transgressor to jail.
Holder's
Dubious History. House Republicans are now calling for a special counsel to investigate whether
Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself in congressional testimony about the scandalous Fast &
Furious program. Specifically, the attorney general claimed on May 3 that he had only "over the
last few weeks" heard about the [program]. Contrary to Holder's testimony, it is now being reported
that he had actually been receiving briefings on the program since early summer 2010.
Pejury
Charges Coming for Eric Holder on Fast and Furious? Appearing on Fox & Friends on October 4,
[Rep. Darrell] Issa was asked to respond to the DOJ's contention that Holder "misunderstood" his question.
Issa said that's typically what someone claims when they have "probably perjured themselves" rather than admitting
"I lied." Undoubtedly, Congress will again summon Holder to face additional questions.
But, the bigger issue is why Barack Obama hasn't fired his Attorney General?
Holder
Appears To Be Fast, Furious, and Finished. News documents indicate that U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder more than likely perjured himself in congressional testimony about Operation Fast and Furious
earlier this year.
GOP
calls for Holder's resignation intensify. Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) on Thursday [10/6/2011]
called for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over his role in a botched gun-tracking operation, and
questioned whether he was protecting President Obama. Labrador pointed to a series of internal Justice
Department memos released this week that contradict statements Holder made under sworn oath before Congress
about when he was first told about Operation Fast and Furious.
Dems Abandoning Ship?
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has come under fire this week: evidence revealed he either ignored weekly
reports in the summer of 2010 that discussed Operation Fast and Furious, or he committed perjury when he
claimed he first found out about the program in early 2011. The former suggests incompetence, the later
criminality — either would be legitimate reasons to see him removed from office. Despite recent
developments, the Department of Justice is publicly pushing back in favor of their boss, even as a key source
claims career employees' morale is at an all time low and that "Stalinesque complete control" over internal
communications has been implemented to squelch leaks.
A smoking gun for 'Fast and Furious'.
The other shoe has dropped in the "Fast and Furious" gun-walking scandal, and it has landed on Eric Holder's
doorstep. Members of Congress are calling for his resignation, and the chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee has called for a special prosecutor to investigate the affair. Holder's resignation would be a
good start. But if there is anyone in Washington who doubts that the White House not only knew about the
illegal ATF project but was up to its elbows in it, that person must be in an hypnotic trance deep inside the
CNN Washington bureau.
Congressman
to Holder: Drop your 'rhetoric' and resign immediately. Rep. Paul Gosar jabbed back at Attorney
General Eric Holder after he swiped at him and other congressional Operation Fast and Furious investigators
in a late Friday letter. Gosar told The Daily Caller that "In Main Street America, you'd never get away
with" dissembling about the gun-walking program, and that in different circumstances, "the people who've been
responsible would've already been in jail." Gosar also added his name to the short but growing list of
those in Congress calling for the attorney general's immediate resignation.
Fast
and Furious fallout puts Holder on collision course with Congress. The fierce battle over a
botched gun-tracking operation is intensifying and has put Attorney General Eric Holder on a collision course
with his critics in Congress. Republicans are calling for his resignation in the wake of Fast and Furious,
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives operation that may have inadvertently contributed to
the death of at least one federal agent.
Holder hits
bottom - keeps digging. AG Eric Holder sounds all powerful in his latest attempt to wriggle out
of his role in the Fast and Furious operation, but hubris catches up to everybody. A smart lawyer would
never put into writing what he can't defend, but Holder did exactly that. After a week of aggressive
reporting by CBS' Sheryl Attkisson, the Attorney General tried defending himself in a letter to Congress.
House
Committee to Subpoena Holder in 'Fast and Furious' Probe. The House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee is planning to subpoena Attorney General Eric Holder this week to determine who in the Justice
Department knew about "Operation Fast and Furious" — the plan to let thousands of guns sold in the
U.S. get into Mexican drug cartel hands — and when they knew it. The subpoena targeting
Holder aims to get at the heart of the authorization for the program, and when the people in charge decided
the program was a problem.
Algore Akbar! Our president
picks and chooses the laws he likes, and his ever-willing Attorney General agreeably declines to enforce those
that Obama disdains.
Congressman
Issa Announces New Subpoenas for Holder. Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder tried to stall
the momentum building behind the Fast and Furious investigation by submitting a letter to Senate and Congressional
investigators in which he continued to plead ignorance, and in which he did his best to undercut the progress of the
investigation to this point. In the letter, Holder actually had the gall to re-affirm his feigned ignorance
of Fast and Furious.
No
justice from Justice. Two things to know about Attorney General Eric Holder: He lied to
the American people — under oath, before Congress — and thus is unfit to investigate
allegations of criminal negligence in the Justice Department. This is why House Republicans have called
for a special prosecutor to investigate Holder for apparent perjury regarding his testimony on the
administration's "Fast and Furious" gun sting...
Impeach Eric Holder. Only the
House of Representatives can impeach, which is comparable to indictment. The official is then tried by
the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required for conviction. The Constitution doesn't say what constitutes
"high crimes and misdemeanors," but perjury surely is among them. So is obstruction of justice.
Reverse Racism.
Those people of good will who want to replace the racism of the past with a post-racial society have too often
overlooked the fact that there are others who instead want to put racism under new management, to have reverse
discrimination as racial payback for past injustices. Attorney General Eric Holder became a key figure
epitomizing the view that government's role in racial matters was not to be an impartial dispenser of equal
justice for all, but to be a racial partisan and an organ of racial payback.
Fast And Furious And Ugly.
After Eric Holder was involved in the pardoning of international fugitive Marc Rich, he confessed to not doing
a thorough check of Rich's history and background. When he criticized Arizona's immigration law, SB1070, he
admitted to not even reading the law. Now, with dead bodies and illegal weapons piled up high in Fast and
Furious, Holder says he didn't read the memos. Holder's "Sgt. Schultz" defense that he knew, saw and heard
nothing about the ATF's gun-running operation does not wash with the chairman of the House Oversight Committee,
Rep. Darrell Issa.
Eric
Holder, Obama's albatross. President Obama says that he has "complete confidence" in Attorney General
Eric Holder. That's good news for Republicans. Pick almost any unnecessary, losing battle in Obama's
first term, and his hapless attorney general is at the center of it.
Bachmann:
Eric Holder should resign 'if the facts prove to be what they appear to be'. Presidential candidate
Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman, told reporters after a town hall meeting Monday morning [10/10/2011]
that embattled Attorney General Eric Holder should resign if the full story of Operation Fast and Furious confirms
the facts already presented to the public and to congressional investigators.
Issa to Holder: "You OWN
Fast and Furious;" resignation calls grow. Eric Holder is on the hot seat, and GOP Rep. Darrell
Issa's cranking up the temperature.
Issa:
Holder's defense on Fast and Furious 'has reached a new low'. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) issued
a scathing reply to Attorney General Eric Holder over his role in the authorization of a botched gun-tracking
operation and the Justice Department's cooperation with a congressional investigation.
Darrell Issa: Eric Holder 'owns' Fast & Furious.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) excoriated Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday over a controversial Department
of Justice gun program, writing in a letter, "whether you realize yet or not, you own Fast and Furious.
It is your responsibility."
"Gunwalking" subpoena for
AG Holder imminent. CBS News has learned a congressional subpoena directed to Attorney General
Eric Holder could go out as early as Tuesday [10/11/2011], ordering him to turn over documents to lawmakers
about when he was aware of a controversial gun smuggling operation known as Fast and Furious.
Attorney
general subpoenaed in probe of botched gun operation. U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder has been
subpoenaed by the Republican chairman of a House oversight committee, an escalation of the congressional
investigation into the botched "Fast and Furious" gun-tracking operation.
Issa
Issues Subpoena to Holder in Fast and Furious Investigation. Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a subpoena Wednesday [10/12/2011] to Attorney General Eric
Holder as part of his investigation into the gun trafficking operation known as "Fast and Furious."
A convenient
arrest? This isn't exactly getting into tin foil hat territory, but neither can the
question about the timing of revealing the arrest of a suspect in the Iranian terror plot be dismissed.
Holder's
distraction? Talk about convenient timing. Yesterday's [10/11/2011] announcement
of a thwarted Iranian bombing/assassination plot against Saudi targets in Washington sure takes a lot
of heat off of Attorney General Eric Holder. Coming, as it did, just as the House Oversight
Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), seemed to have caught him in a bald-faced lie
about his role in Operation Fast and Furious.
Holder documents
subpoenaed in probe. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has been
investigating the Justice Department's "Fast and Furious" weapons probe for several months, issued a sweeping
subpoena Wednesday [10/12/2011] for documents involving key department officials, including Attorney General
Eric H. Holder Jr. and more than a dozen of his top deputies.
Alibis
Falling Apart. An old news tape shows that President Obama directly contradicted Attorney General
Eric Holder's testimony to Congress about when he knew of Operation Fast and Furious. How many times will the
story change?
Top
oversight Democrat mum on joining GOP effort to have Holder testify again. House oversight committee
ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings hasn't officially followed up on his public calls for Attorney General Eric
Holder to testify before the committee on Operation Fast and Furious. "I think that, John, he has to come up
[to Capitol Hill] and say what he has said in his letters, and make it clear under oath," Cummings told CNN's John
King on October 12. "But at the same time, I want to make sure we are not harming any pending cases,
we are not putting FBI informants in jeopardy."
IG Schnedar's investigation:
Gunwalker's "Little Bighorn?" In recent comments by Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano,
and repeated comments from President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, it has become apparent that
the last, perhaps only defensive card the Administration has to play is to invoke the investigation into the
gun-walking scheme being run by acting DOJ Inspector General Cynthia A. Schendar. By claiming that
they do not want to talk because of the on-going OIG investigation, the President and appointees buy themselves
both time and a plausible reason to avoid making comments that may come back to haunt them in the event of
impeachment or a criminal trial.
High Crimes. A reasonable person,
such as you or I, would probably say that involvement in acts that resulted in murder constitutes a high crime.
It would certainly become one, if the perpetrators went on to lie and cover up their involvement. It has
become quite clear that Attorney General Eric Holder, perhaps Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and highly likely,
their boss, Usurper Barak Hussein Obama-Soetoro, were involved in just such a crime and cover-up with Project
Gunrunner and Fast and Furious.
Justice
Dept. proposes lying, hiding existence of records under new FOIA rule. A proposed revision to
Freedom of Information Act rules would allow federal agencies to lie to citizens and reporters seeking certain
records, telling them the records don't exist. The Justice Department has proposed the change as part of
a large revision of FOIA rules for federal agencies. Specifically, the rule would direct government
agencies who are denying a request under an established FOIA exemption to "respond to the request as if the
excluded records did not exist," rather than citing the relevant exemption.
Rep. Joe Walsh to Eric Holder: "Resign immediately and take
responsibility" for F&F. Illinois Republican Rep. Joe Walsh joined the small but
growing choir of members of Congress calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over Operation
Fast and Furious. Walsh is the fourth member of Congress to make the call for Holder to resign.
Republican Reps. Raul Labrador of Idaho, Blake Farenthold of Texas and Paul Gosar of Arizona have each
publicly asked Holder to step aside as well. Walsh made the demand in a letter he sent Holder on
Wednesday.
Meanwhile, back at the office...
Obama Justice Department Sends Border Agent to Prison for "Violating Rights" of
Drug Smuggler. After a complaint from the Mexican government, a U.S. Border Patrol agent has
been sentenced to two years in prison for "violating" the constitutional rights of a 15-year-old drug smuggling
suspect by not "lifting his arms properly." The Obama Justice Department has accused the agent of using
"unnecessary force," in handling the suspect while handcuffed.
U.S.
border agent jailed for improper arrest of suspected drug smuggler. A U.S. Border Patrol agent
has been sentenced to two years in prison for improperly lifting the arms of a 15-year-old drug smuggling
suspect while handcuffed — in what the Justice Department called a deprivation of the teenager's
constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force.
Willful blindness.
The United States Department of Justice, which includes the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (the FBI) and the
National Security Division, has been ordered to remove all references to Islam from any examination of Islamic
terror in its training materials and procedures. That means investigation of the Islamic beliefs, motives
and goals of Islamic terrorists in the U.S. is verboten in the Department Of Justice and the rest of the Federal
Government because accurate, knowledgeable, honest and objective discussion of Islam has been forbidden and is
no longer possible there. Islam cannot be examined in depth or criticized in any way, shape or form and woe
betide any government employee who does.
Perjury
Charges Coming for Eric Holder? The response from the Obama Justice Department is typical of the
response we've been getting since the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious started. Holder
should be dragged before Congress to "clarify" his remarks and to explain why memos about Fast and Furious
dated as far back as July 2010 were addressed directly to him. Afterall, according to Holder's own
testimony, he had only been briefed on the program just a "few weeks" prior to testimony in May.
Let the hearings begin.
Holder's
days as attorney general may be numbered as resignation calls double overnight. Attorney General
Eric Holder's tenure in the Obama administration may be coming to an end. At least eight members of Congress
have now called on Holder to resign over the growing Operation Fast and Furious scandal. Republican Reps. Vicky
Hartzler of Missouri, John Mica of Florida, Quico Canseco of Texas and Gus Bilirakis of Florida each told The Daily
Caller on Thursday [10/27/2011] that they believe Holder should step down now.
Eric
Holder to testify on Fast and Furious. CBS News has learned Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed
to appear before the House Judiciary Committee regarding "Fast and Furious." The hearing will take place
Dec. 8th.
When Government
Knows No Limitation: New DOJ Rules Allow More Intrusive Searches. From his refusal to protect
the voting rights of every citizen, to the blatant, politically based, "social justice" racism executed by his
department, along with his pursuit of the deliberate usurpation of the enumerated limitations placed on the
federal government to protect the rights of the citizenry in both personal security and our right to know,
Mr. Holder has not only been a disgrace to the American system of justice; he has effectively become an enemy
to the US Constitution, the whole of the Charters of Freedom and the very ideas of blind justice and liberty.
Congressional
calls for Holder's resignation more than double to 17. Nine more members of Congress have told
The Daily Caller that they're calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over his handling of Operation
Fast and Furious, more than doubling the number on record before the weekend calling for his ouster. A
total of 17 members of Congress have now called for Holder to step down.
How Can Holder Keep Holding
On? Like a boxer way past his prime, taking beating after beating on the ring, U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder insists on remaining at his current post in the Department of Justice (DOJ). The big difference
is that a boxer puts only himself at risk, while Holder puts every American family in danger. Holder simply
cannot be trusted.
South Carolina immigration law challenged by
Justice Dept.. President Barack Obama's administration sought on Monday [10/31/2011] to block parts
of South Carolina's new immigration law, arguing that the federal government had preeminent authority over
immigration matters.
Holder sues
South Carolina over immigration reform. The Obama administration has boosted its efforts to bar
state-level enforcement of the nation's immigration laws by suing South Carolina over its new immigration reform
law. The Monday announcement by the Department of Justice follows the news that the Department of Homeland
Security has quietly canceled long-standing checks of transportation hubs for illegal immigrants.
Connie
Mack becomes the 30th congressman to call for Holder's resignation. Attorney General Eric Holder's
service in the Obama administration may be coming to an end. Thirty members of Congress are now calling for
Holder's immediate resignation — a number that grows larger every day. Florida Republican Rep.
Connie Mack became the latest congressman to demand that Holder step down, telling The Daily Caller late on
Tuesday [11/1/2011] that "Eric Holder should resign Fast and Furiously!"
Montana Rep. Rehberg becomes 35th congressman to call for Holder's
resignation. Montana Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg is calling for Attorney General Eric Holder's
immediate resignation, becoming the 35th member of Congress to demand it. "It's become clear that in his
efforts to advance the President's anti-gun agenda, Eric Holder was willing to cross lines that should never
have been crossed," Rehberg said in a statement Friday morning [11/4/2011]. "Mr. Holder has lost the
public confidence necessary to do his job."
Eric Holder has a
gun problem. As the chief law enforcement officer Attorney General Eric Holder came out swinging
in the first months of the Obama administration as he pushed to reinstate the assault weapons ban, pointing to
the rising levels of violence in Mexico and increased presence of U.S. guns south of the border. But
nearly two years later assault weapons can still be bought and Holder has found himself at the center of a
quagmire involving a botched gun-tracking operation that sent thousands of high-powered firearms to Mexico in
the hands of known or suspected straw buyers for drug cartels.
Holder to
face gun-walking music at Senate hearing. Attorney General Eric Holder will testify before the
Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning [11/8/2011], and he's likely to face a barrage of tough questions
from senators about Operation Fast and Furious.
Holder
to accuse investigators of playing Fast and Furious politics, call for gun control. Holder's
prepared testimony does not discuss his May 3 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, an appearance during
which investigators say he either lied, intentionally misled Congress or exhibited outright incompetence when
answering questions about when he first learned about the failed gun-walking program.
Holder:
No apology for 'Fast and Furious' death of border patrol agent. During a Tuesday Senate hearing,
Attorney General Eric Holder refused to apologize to the family of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was
murdered last December with a gun "walked" to Mexico as part of Operation Fast and Furious. Texas Republican
Sen. John Cornyn asked Holder if he has apologized to Terry's family for what happened to him because of the DOJ's
controversial program. Holder replied that he hasn't.
At
least 36 members of Congress want Eric Holder's immediate resignation. North Carolina Republican
Rep. Patrick McHenry has become the 36th member of Congress to call for Attorney General Eric Holder's immediate
resignation.
Holder
concedes ATF let guns "walk" to Mexico. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder conceded this morning
[11/8/2011] that under his leadership, agents allowed guns to "walk" into Mexico, where they ended up in the
hands of drug lords, and he said that the effects of this mistake would be felt for years to come.
Tough Questions
for AG Holder on ATF/DOJ Mass Murder Catastrophe. Border patrol Agent Brian Terry's death on
December 14, 2010 is part and parcel of an ATF/DOJ mass murder catastrophe. Big media has so far chosen
to ignore the fiasco and the cover-up. ... Holder should leave the hot seat sweating like a real suspect.
Holder
'Regrets' Death Of Border Patrol Agent, Stands By Response In Aftermath. Attorney General Eric
Holder said Tuesday that he has not spoken with the family of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was killed
in December by a group of assailants using at least two weapons tied to "Operation Fast and Furious," but he
"certainly regrets" what happened.
Holder
Thumbs His Nose at Brian Terry's Family, Says We Need More Gun Control. Holder must be prosecuted.
When he appears before the House committee next month Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) should wait till the cameras
are rolling then have Holder handcuffed and frog marched out of the hearing for his ongoing contempt of the Senate,
the House, and the people of the United States.
Holder
Says 'Not Fair' to Assume Fast and Furious 'Directly' Led to Border Agent's Death. Attorney General
Eric Holder declined the chance to apologize to the family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was
killed in December 2010 and where, at the crime scene, at least two of the firearms recovered were traced to
the Justice Department's botched gunwalking program, Operation Fast and Furious.
CCRKBA blasts Senate anti-gunners for shifting
blame on gun walking. Today's hearing on Operation Fast and Furious before the Senate Judiciary
Committee once again provided an opportunity for two leading Senate gun prohibitionists to try spreading the
blame for botched gun trafficking, and change the debate to arguments for more gun control, the Citizens Committee
for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
Murdered Border Patrol agent's family says...
Holder 'should accept responsibility immediately' for Fast and Furious.
Border Patrol agent Brian Terry's family broke its silence on Wednesday, and is now calling on Attorney General Eric Holder
to admit he's at fault for Operation Fast and Furious. Terry was murdered with Operation Fast and Furious weapons on
December 15, 2010 — nearly a year ago — and Holder refused to apologize to his family during his
Senate Judiciary Committee appearance on Tuesday.
ABC
and NBC Spike Eric Holder's Fast and Furious Testimony. NBC and ABC in their evening and morning
newscasts completely ignored the grilling Eric Holder received on Capitol Hill on Tuesday [11/8/2011], over his
role in the Fast and Furious scandal. Senate Republicans forced Holder to admit his initial statements to
Congress about his department's role in gunwalking were "inaccurate," and that he never apologized to the family
of a Border Agent killed by a Mexican drug cartel that used guns from the Fast and Furious operation. Only Sharyl
Attkisson, in two full reports aired on Tuesday's Evening News and Wednesday's The Early Show, relayed the
testimony that ABC and NBC blacked out on their broadcasts.
Holder
shared apology letter with press before slain agent's mother read it. Politico reported Thursday
[11/10/2011] that Attorney General Eric Holder sent a "private letter" to the family of murdered Border Patrol
agent Brian Terry, apologizing for his death. But friends of the Terry family question the Department of
Justice's apparent decision to leak that letter to media before both his parents had read it.
Holder's humanity gap.
Asked during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday whether he would apologize for the Justice Department's
role in the Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal that led to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry,
the U.S. attorney general refused. Instead, he hid behind Washington weasel words: "I certainly regret
what happened to Agent Brian Terry." To express regret over an event is to say, "I wish it never happened."
Implicit are the accompanying words, "but it's not my fault." To apologize is to say, "I'm sorry that it
happened, and I take responsibility."
New
emails: DOJ, Eric Holder manipulated press for favorable 'Fast and Furious' coverage. Attorney
General Eric Holder's Justice Department sought to manipulate reporters' coverage of Operation Fast and Furious
during the days preceding a November 1 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, new emails obtained by The Daily
Caller indicate. Emails between senior Justice Department officials and investigators in the office of Iowa
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley show that congressional staffers leading the investigation into Operation Fast and
Furious requested information about Operation Wide Receiver — a Bush administration program — and other similar
cases, more than a full month before the DOJ leaked information to selected media outlets on October 31.
Holder
enjoys taxpayer-funded Caribbean junket. On Thursday morning [11/17/2011] Louisiana Republican
Rep. Charles Boustany became the 44th congressman to demand Attorney General Eric Holder's immediate resignation.
With his addition to the growing call for Holder to step down, ten percent of U.S. House members are now
convinced that the attorney general should lose his job without delay.
Congressmen:
Obama 'complicit' in Fast and Furious without action on Holder. Several of the 43 members
of Congress demanding Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation because of Operation Fast and Furious believe
it is President Barack Obama's responsibility to dismiss him if Holder won't step down on his own. If
Obama fails to replace his attorney general, they said, he may share in the guilt for the program's failure
and the resulting scandal.
Bachmann
is the 52nd member of Congress to demand Eric Holder's resignation. Minnesota congresswoman and
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told The Daily Caller late Friday that she thinks Attorney
General Eric Holder should resign immediately because of Operation Fast and Furious.
Issa:
If Eric Holder is not 'doomed,' the Obama administration is. House oversight committee chairman
Rep. Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller that if Attorney General Eric Holder isn't "doomed" because of his
handling of Operation Fast and Furious, the entire Obama administration is. "If the [Obama] administration
continues to have full confidence in a failed administration by Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, then ultimately the
administration is going to be doomed," Issa told TheDC during an interview in San Diego on Saturday [11/19/2011].
"Eric Holder seems to have the full confidence of the president, and I can't understand why."
Eric Holder must go.
[Scroll down] Mr. Holder's proclaimed ignorance leaves Americans to draw one of two conclusions:
Either he is guilty of extraordinary bureaucratic incompetence or he is guilty of a cover-up meant to shield him
from the consequences of an operation that has left at least one federal agent dead and continues to imperil
many more. Either way, it is high time for Mr. Holder to step down. If he refuses to resign, Mr. Obama
must fire him immediately.
Media
Silent As Three Presidential Contenders And 51 Congressmen Demand Eric Holder's Resignation. Michele
Bachmann was the first GOP presidential candidate to demand Eric Holder's resignation. Last Monday Rick
Perry published an op-ed in The Washington Times demanding Mr. Holder's resignation and yesterday morning [11/26/2011]
Jon Huntsman also remarked that Mr. Holder should resign, yet the majority of the Old Media ignore them and the
other congressmen who think Mr. Holder should resign.
More GOP Candidates
Call for Holder's Resignation. Two Republican presidential candidates have joined the 51 congressmen
who have called for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over the gunwalking operation Fast and Furious.
They join former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who called on Holder to be fired more than a month ago.
Justice
Dept. Targets Freedom of Information Act. With the U.S. Justice Department and Attorney General
Eric Holder continually under fire these days, it was something of a surprise, even to Capitol Hill insiders,
that the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, is now in the crosshairs, and that new rules are being advanced
not only to deny the public access to documents, but to lie outright, telling requesters that either the documents
never existed or don't exist now.
President Obama's Justice
Department Opposed Enforcement of Anti-Vote Fraud Laws. President Obama's Justice Department is
doing its part to maximize the Democratic turnout in the 2012 elections by filing "motor voter" suits across
the country that claim state officials are not circulating voter registration forms in social service agencies.
The lawsuit filed against Louisiana this past summer is closely timed with a separate suit advanced by ACORN's
Project Vote affiliate and the NAACP.
Eric Holder
channels Richard Nixon. The Attorney General of the United States is the victim of a media
conspiracy. At least that's the line being peddled by Eric Holder and the Soros lackeys at Media
Matters. They are reacting to the call for Holder's resignation currently supported by 52 sitting
members of Congress (and growing).
Isakson
becomes first US senator to demand Holder's resignation. Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson told
The Daily Caller on Tuesday [11/29/2011] that he thinks Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over Operation
Fast and Furious, making him the first U.S. senator to demand that Holder step down now.
Holder
Sweats as More Lies Uncovered by Feb. 3rd Memo. As Eric Holder's December 8th testimony before
Congress draws near, more and more lies surrounding Fast and Furious are crumbling to the ground. From
new evidence that appears to indicate that President Obama knew about the operation as early as May 2010, and
that he gave directives for action against Mexican cartels a year prior (March 2009), to even newer evidence
that the DOJ may have "deliberately misled" Congress via a Feb. 4th memo denying the ATF had "'sanctioned'
or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons."
Romney says Attorney
General Holder should quit. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling on President
Barack Obama's attorney general to resign because of the flawed law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling
major arms trafficking networks on the Southwest border.
The Ethics of Eric Holder.
When Attorney General Eric Holder recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his role in the
Fast and Furious operation, where 2,000 rifles were deliberately "walked" from the United States into Mexico, his
answers at times seemed incredible and stretched the limits of believability. A few months earlier, on May
the third, Holder had testified before the House that he had only recently learned of the deadly and disastrous
operation.
Holder
Suggests Fast and Furious Guns Will Be Used in Crimes for 'Years to Come'. Attorney General Eric Holder
suggested Thursday that weapons lost during the course of the failed "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation will
continue to show up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico "for years to come."
No-confidence
motion against Holder to be introduced in House. The House resolution is a way to formalize the growing
surge in calls for Holder's immediate resignation, and it sends a message to House leadership and to the administration
that many members of Congress aren't happy with Holder's behavior throughout the congressional investigation into
Operation Fast and Furious.
Eric
Holder's New Scandal: Money Laundering For Cartels. Just as Fast and Furious was allegedly intended
to track and interdict gun-trafficking into Mexico, this operation, detailed in a New York Times article Sunday,
is said to have as its purpose to follow how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets
and, most important, who their leaders are. But the question once again arises: Have the feds interrupted
or aided the flow?
GOP
congressman: Dems playing Holder's 'defense lawyers'. Are congressional Democrats trying to
protect Eric Holder? Republican Rep. Ted Poe of Texas told The Daily Caller that his Democratic
colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee acted like defense attorneys trying to protect Attorney
General Eric Holder, rather than pushing for accountability over the deadly Operation Fast and Furious
gun-walking program.
Issa:
Holder protecting staff despite 'Fast and Furious' mistakes. In anticipation of Attorney General Eric
Holder's testimony today before the House Judiciary Committee, California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa wrote an op-ed in
USA Today accusing Holder of protecting his staff despite admissions that Operation Fast and Furious was "fundamentally
flawed." "Surprisingly" Issa wrote Thursday, "no one at Justice Department headquarters has faced any
meaningful consequences.
Congressman
attempts to transfer Fast and Furious blame onto NRA 'radicals'. Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank
Johnson accused the tea party movement and the National Rifle Association of creating an "manufactured"
controversy over Operation Fast and Furious Thursday [12/8/2011]. Johnson's comments came during an
interview with The Daily Caller outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing room. Attorney General
Eric Holder was testifying before the committee about Fast and Furious — a Justice Department program where
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents facilitated the sale of about 2,000 guns to
Mexican drug cartels.
Rep.
Issa Strikes a Blow and Rep. Sensenbrenner Says Holder Could Face Impeachment. Once Lamar Smith (R-TX)
opened the hearings with comments on Fast and Furious and then passed the baton to Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), it
seemed the hearings would be a wash. That's because it was evident from the start that Conyers was there to
carry water for Holder. For example, Conyers used his opening comments to highlight the "life and contributions"
of Holder, and to highlight the need for more gun control in the United States. He particularly supported the new
requirement for border state gun stores to file special reports on customers who make multiple long gun purchases.
Rep.
Issa Confirms Holder Is under Oath, Yet Holder Changes His Story Again. When it came time for
Attorney General Eric Holder to make his opening comments, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) requested that the
A.G. be sworn under oath. Issa had already noted that Congress had been lied to and that in previous hearings,
Holder & Co. displayed the "unheard of" habit of redacting their letters and testimony to the Congress.
Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) said that it wasn't necessary for Holder to be sworn under oath because it was
understood that he was already under oath by virtue of the purpose for which he was appearing. Issa then
asked Smith if he was sure that Holder was bound as being under oath, and Smith verified that he was.
Impeachment
Is Not Enough, Holder Needs to Be Handcuffed. As Attorney General Eric Holder testified before Congress
yesterday, two things were reinforced. One: Holder has a problem telling the truth. Two: Congressmen
Darrell Issa (R-CA), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), and Ted Poe (R-TX), have a problem with people who have a problem telling the
truth. And they have a point. As a matter of fact, as I watched the hearings unfold I continually thought to
myself: "If Bill Clinton had obstructed justice to this degree, even Senator Trent Lott would have manned up and
removed him from office."
'Lying,' Holder
Says, 'Has to Do With Your State of Mind'. This morning on Capitol Hill, Attorney General Eric Holder
was asked whether he lied to Congress about the Fast & Furious gun-running scandal. Rep. James
Sensenbrenner asked Holder: "Tell me what's the difference between lying and misleading Congress, in
this context?" Holder's response is a bit Clintonian.
Holder
refuses to fire aides from Fast and Furious operation. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.,
during a rancorous House committee hearing Thursday, dismissed Republican calls to fire top Justice Department
officials involved in the botched Fast and Furious weapons operation and repudiated charges that his agency
lied to Congress during the investigation.
Holder
may be holding on to private emails about Fast and Furious. A largely overlooked exchange from
Thursday's House Judiciary Committee hearing includes what appears to be an admission from Attorney General
Eric Holder that emails to and from him about Operation Fast and Furious may exist, and that he's refusing
to provide them to Congress.
Don't Dial ACLU-Heavy
DOJ for Voter Fraud Protection. If you thought the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney General
Eric Holder was already shockingly biased toward far-left causes, get ready for a more permanent problem.
As Hans A. von Spakovsky has outlined in the first of five articles for Pajamas Media about DOJ's
Civil Rights Division, Holder has hired 16 civil service employees — not political
appointees — in the Voting Rights Section. This means they will be part of the permanent
bureaucracy. It's part of an overall trend of loading the Civil Rights Division with card-carrying
leftists despite Holder's promise to hire qualified people regardless of ideology.
Impeach
Holder and DOJ Officials for DOJ Lies. This week in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney
General Eric Holder doubled down, then tripled down, on Fast and Furious. He dug in, fought back, and pretended
nothing is systemically wrong inside his Justice Department. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) even accused him of
potential contempt of Congress, a crime (2 U.S.C. 192). Holder's testimony was not merely shameful,
it was a maturing manifestation of a lawlessness which I first warned about in July of 2010 when I testified
about the New Black Panther dismissal. Small acts of lawlessness have given way to larger ones.
Rifts
in Congressional Black Caucus over Fast and Furious, Holder. A Congressional Black Caucus staffer
told The Daily Caller on Monday [12/12/2011] that the "general feeling" of most caucus members is that the
congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious is warranted. But, the staffer added, most
members think the investigation has turned into a "witch hunt." The CBC hasn't taken an official stance
on Fast and Furious or whether Attorney General Eric Holder is responsible for the scandal-plagued operation.
There have been major rifts among its members over the scandal.
The Editor says...
It is simply amazing that there are people in this country to whom race matters more than testimony or evidence.
Apparently the CBC's position is that Eric Holder can do no wrong, and all criticism of him must be based on
racial prejudice.
Rep.
Ben Quayle on Holder: 'I call for his immediate resignation'. On Tuesday [12/13/2011], Arizona
Republican Rep. Ben Quayle became the 57th House member to demand Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation over
Operation Fast and Furious. "The fact that he hasn't fired a single person shows that Attorney General
Holder is more concerned with protecting himself and his political appointees than holding individuals accountable
for Fast and Furious," Quayle said in a statement shown to The Daily Caller on Tuesday afternoon.
Behind
Holder's war on voter-ID laws. If you want to buy over-the-counter cold medicine at your local
drugstore, chances are you have to show a photo ID to do it. Same if you want to get on a plane,
rent a car or open a bank account. So why not to vote? But to Attorney General Eric Holder, the idea
is an outrage. In the name of "civil rights," he's declared war on a nationwide movement to ensure the
integrity of the electoral process.
Documents
Reveal Coordination Between ACORN Affiliate and Justice Department Voting Section. Judicial Watch
has done it again. It has produced — following a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the United States
Department of Justice (DOJ) — documents that suggest extensive coordination and communications between the DOJ
Voting Section and former ACORN affiliate Project Vote. Project Vote appears to be directing DOJ resources
toward particular states; is having meetings with DOJ staff; and is even recommending lawyers to work in the
Justice Department Voting Section that will oversee the 2012 presidential election.
Eric Holder's
continued obfuscation on Fast and Furious. As we mark one year this week since Border Patrol
Agent Brian Terry was shot to death in Arizona — with guns allowed to drift over the Mexican line
found at the scene — we certainly know much more about Operation Fast and Furious. That's the
bad-idea-executed-poorly child of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, sanctioned by your
own U.S. Justice Department. In addition to Terry's death, another federal agent may have been killed in
Mexico by a walked gun, and the case could well have ties to North Texas.
Holder
Ignores Voter Intimidation But Will Go After Voter ID Requirements. Our Attorney General, the
same one who wouldn't prosecute obvious voter intimidation, now leads the "it's racism!" charge this
election season with a speech signaling his department will be wasting resources by looking into State Voter ID
laws. ... I find it quite humorous when people give the argument that forcing someone to have ID to vote will
somehow suppress minorities. Is it not racist to believe that they aren't capable of get an ID? Even
the very poor must have ID when spending their welfare money.
It's
not fast and furious for Eric Holder. At last count, 59 members of Congress want the
resignation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. They should save their energy and watch the faucet
drip more. Holder won't quit — yet — even though he's repeatedly lied to Congress
and the American people about the disgusting Justice Department operation that sent a couple of thousand guns
to Mexican drug cartels.
The
New York Times Paints Holder As A Victim Of Fast And Furious. Charlie Savage's newest piece
at The New York Times is, as my friend Sean Arthur on Twitter says, a shameless PR drivel and allows Mr.
Holder to make ludicrous statements without challenge and pulls the race card. The New York Times and
Charlie Savage are really going to do this after all the articles they published during Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales scandals? Give me a break. The hypocrisy at The New York Times is too much to take.
Indiana
Lawmaker: Holder Absent on Primary Petition Fraud Case. Republican Rep. Todd Rokita, who served
eight years — from 2002 to 2010 — as Indiana's secretary of state, told Fox News that he
has not received a response from Holder on either charges of election fraud in the 2008 Democratic presidential
primary in his state or other issues of election integrity.
Is
anyone really buying Holder's excuses on Fast & Furious? I recall when it came to light that Karl
Rove, who wasn't a Cabinet secretary or running federal law enforcement for the US, used his personal e-mail
account while working on George W. Bush's political team in the White House. Democrats clutched hankies
and swooned at the lack of transparency. Now the Attorney General of the United States has suggested that
his personal e-mail account might have been used to bypass transparency, and that there are thousands of communications
that he will flat-out not share with Congress on the matter of Operation Fast and Furious, which a year ago resulted
in the death of a US Border Patrol agent and perhaps hundreds of murders in Mexico. Have the same Democrats
demanded transparency of the Obama administration?
Want
Answers About Fast and Furious? You're a Racist. Holder claims he didn't know about gunwalking
techniques being used in the operation until the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, telling House Oversight
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on May 3, 2011 he had known about Fast and Furious for "a couple of weeks."
However, five memos addressed directly to Holder, detailing Operation Fast and Furious, are dated July and August 2010,
nearly a year before Holder admitted he knew under oath. The Justice Department continues to stonewall the
investigation into the lethal operation and still hasn't given the Terry family details about their son's
murder one year later.
Holder draws
the race card and busts. It's no surprise that Eric Holder has accused his critics of racially
motivated attacks. This is the last refuge of scoundrel black politicos who can't defend themselves on
the facts or the merits of their case. ... If anyone cares to notice, the top law enforcement officer in the land
apparently sees most everything through the prism of race. He's also a confirmed liar and perjurer. If
that's not enough to demand his resignation — no matter what the color of his skin —
then we might as well start hiring convicts to enforce the law.
The Editor says...
Yeah, they might as well put a serial tax cheater in charge of the IRS, too.
West:
Holder's race card is the 'last card in the deck'. Florida Republican Rep. Allen West told The
Daily Caller on Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder's use of the race card as a way to attack those who
are criticizing him is "reprehensible." "I think this is absolutely the last card in the deck, and that
shows how weak their ground is," West said in a phone interview.
Obama
and Holder Should Put the Race Card back in the Deck. President Obama led us to believe that he
would be a post-racial president who would bring the races together, but it's gotten to where you can't criticize
this most leftist administration in American history without someone accusing you of racism. The most
recent example involves criticism of Attorney General Eric Holder over Fast and Furious...
Justice
Dept. blames critics for noticing Holder's race-card play. Under fire for leveling a racially charged
attack at his critics, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has neither backed down nor revise his remarks, appearing instead
to restate them. In a front page New York Times story on Sunday [12/18/2011], Holder alleged that some of his
critics — a group he referred to as the "more extreme segment" — are motivated by racism.
Holder Cowardly Plays Race Card in Fast and Furious. In
an interview with the New York Times published over the weekend, Holder accused those who want to know who authorized the Fast and
Furious gun-running operation of being racially motivated. The 60 congressmen, two senators, two sitting governors, and all
the major presidential candidates who have openly called for Holder's resignation are not concerned in his view about how two U.S.
agents and hundreds of Mexicans got killed with U.S. guns. No, according to Holder, they are motivated by the color of
Holder's and President Obama's skin.
Under Fire, Holder Brazens On.
In a jaw droppingly sycophantic NYT's piece, originally titled, "Under Partisan Fire, Holder Soldiers On", the Obama
administration's #1 lapdog, Charlie Savage reported that a defiant Eric Holder has no intention of stepping down.
Lashing out at his and Obama's critics, Holder whipped out the all too familiar race card.
Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Leading Liberals.
[#2] Dictionary for Eric Holder: The attorney general trotted out a rather disjointed response while
being grilled at a congressional hearing about his department's response to Congress regarding the Fast and Furious
gun-running operation. Holder said a letter denying responsibility for the program was not a lie "because it
all has to do with your state of mind." Actually, Mr. Holder, here is a definition of a lie from the Merriam
Webster Dictionary that more aptly applies to your situation: "To create a false or misleading impression."
Holder's Voter ID
Fraud. The Obama Administration's re-election mobilization continues: Witness Eric Holder's
attempt to play the race card and perhaps twist the law in a campaign against voter identification laws.
In the Attorney General's telling, the movement in the states to require voters to show some ID is a revival
of minority disenfranchisement a la Jim Crow.
Krauthammer:
Eric Holder 'one of the most incompetent attorneys general in US history'. Last week, U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder suggested racism was behind the attacks he was facing for the missteps his Department of
Justice has made. On Friday's "Special Report with Bret Baier" on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post
columnist Charles Krauthammer explained what he thought was the rationale behind this charge from Holder:
It's a defensive tactic for his political troubles.
Congressman
trumps Holder's race card, asks if Mexican gun-walking deaths were 'racially motivated'. Arizona
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder's race-card play to attack
his critics is "absolutely horrendous." But Gosar said he thinks race may have played a role in the
Department of Justice's execution of Operation Fast and Furious -- but in a different way from how Holder is
framing it.
The Justice Department Condones
Perjury — Again. Why should we be surprised? Look at how Eric Holder and the
DOJ have mishandled the investigation into Operation Fast & Furious and repeatedly misled Congress.
Eric
Holder Blocks SC Voter ID, Texas Next. Eric Holder has blocked South Carolina's voter ID
law. Hans von Spakovsky and I have been predicting this was going to happen for over eight months here
at PJ Media. The only surprising thing is that no halftime adjustments were made after it became
even clearer an objection was on the way. Texas now faces the same dilemma.
Holder
Looks Through Race-Colored Glasses. Fresh from using his race as a defense in the Fast and Furious
scandal, the attorney general blocks South Carolina's voter photo ID law as discriminatory. Tell
that to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Will
Obama steal the 2012 election? [Eric] Holder is a shameless demagogue. He has become the
Democratic Party's new Al Sharpton: Everything is seen through the lens of race. He has refused to
prosecute members of the New Black Panther Party, who in the 2008 election stood at a polling booth wielding
clubs in a blatant attempt at voter intimidation. Career Justice Department lawyers admitted that Mr.
Holder's policy is not to go after black perpetrators whose victims are white. He insists that Republican
criticism leveled at him over Operation Fast and Furious is because of his race...
The
truth behind Holder's push for 'electoral equality'. As for Holder, his role as champion of electoral
fairness is embarrassingly unilateral. He was far less protective of "the franchise" in his early days at
Justice where one of his first acts was to dismiss out of hand a civil suit against two men accused of voter
intimidation. Although the attorney general refuted claims that his decision was based on skin color —
both men were members of the New Black Panther party — a former assistant AG swore the move was motivated
purely by race, possibly with input from the White House.
Eric
Holder's cowardice is showing. In February of 2009, Eric Holder used the occasion of his confirmation
as U.S. attorney general to berate the American people for their reticence on matters of race and equality.
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been
and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," he famously lectured. In the years
since, he has emerged as the living embodiment of his words. I don't mean by this that he has initiated a
dialog on race. Rather, he has demonstrated the most abject form of cowardice, hiding behind and exploiting
his position as the nation's chief law enforcement officer to pervert the rule of law to benefit "his people."
If GOP Goes Easy on Obama, It'll Be a Fatal
Mistake. There are also signs that Democrats may be willing to cheat as they look for ways to rally
their disillusioned base. Scandal-plagued ACORN has reemerged, and according to investigative reporter
Matthew Vadum, at least five ACORN officials have visited the White House for meetings in 2011. Vadum
reports that "one of these officials has been involved in vetting Department of Justice hires who may help to
enforce the voter fraud-enabling National Voting Rights Act, also known as the Motor-Voter Law." The DOJ
has been accused of refusing to enforce parts of the law that prohibit ineligible felons, dead people and
nonresidents from voting, while vigorously enforcing parts of the law that require states to register voters
at welfare offices, the vast majority of whom vote Democratic.
Eric
Holder is Obstructing Justice with Fast and Furious Defense. When the U.S. Department of Justice
released over 1,000 pages of internal documents last Friday evening [12/2/2011], a charge that seemed unlikely
to be proven just weeks before appears now all but certain to apply to Attorney General Eric Holder and his top
lieutenants: guilty of obstruction of justice.
Justice
Department's political action. The Justice Department has been empowered to use millions of
dollars intended to go to victims of racial discrimination to enrich pressure groups with close White
House ties. It's another revelation of the means the Obama administration is using to divert funds
to political cronies.
How Obama
Betrays Martin Luther's King's Dream. [Scroll down] Holder's record as Attorney General has
been so disgraceful that a growing list of 60 Congressmen, two Senators, GOP presidential candidates and at
least two sitting governors have called for his resignation. Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer
has called him one of the most incompetent attorney generals in American history. Yet Obama chose him and
continues to support him despite a record of failure. Is Holder serving all the American people? Is
there truly no one in the vast ranks of attorneys who could serve in that role? Does Obama care about the
content of Holder's character or the color of his skin?
Fast
and Furious Stonewallings Call For Eric Holder's Impeachment. For nearly a year Holder has been
avoiding accountability for Operation Fast and Furious, a secret ATF program that allowed guns to "walk" into
Mexico and right into the arsenals of Mexican drug cartels. Nevertheless, he still looked shocked when a
congressman insinuated he might be impeached. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), a former chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, suggested impeachment of administration officials involved with Operation Fast and
Furious just might be the only way to bring this bloody scandal to a close.
Holder's
United Front on Fast and Furious Crumbles. In an ominous development for the Obama administration,
Patrick Cunningham, chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona, has told the House
Oversight Committee that he will assert his privilege against self-incrimination rather than testify before the
committee next week. DOJ officials in Washington evidently have blamed Cunningham for the fact that they provided
false information to Congress in what appears to be an effort to cover up the Fast and Furious scandal.
New
Docs Reveal How DOJ Kowtows to Muslim Brotherhood. In what promises to be an enormous document dump,
I have received the first in a series of DOJ bundles in response to my FOIA request filed close to a year ago. ... One
thing is clear, the Muslim Brotherhood has fully infiltrated command and control at the Department of Justice civil
rights division. ... In a rational society, these Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups would be marginalized.
Instead, the DOJ is playing Stepin Fetchit for them. They're using the DOJ as their legal arm.
Issa
says Holder should apologize to Mexico. House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa told The
Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder owes an apology to the Mexican government and to the families of Operation
Fast and Furious victims south of the border. "Justice has blood on their hands," Issa said Wednesday [1/25/2012]
during an exclusive interview with TheDC, referring to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Why Eric Holder Must Go.
Ever since he was confirmed as attorney general, Eric Holder has had his own agenda, supported by the Obama
administration. As chief law enforcement officer, many of his decisions have not been in the best interest
of this country. American Thinker interviewed congressmen who see the fiasco of "Fast and Furious" as
the last straw and cite this as the final reason Eric Holder needs to resign.
Justice
Department changes inquiry response procedures to Congress after Fast and Furious. The Justice
Department is tightening procedures for responding to information requests from Congress in the aftermath of a
troubled arms trafficking investigation.
DOJ
dodges, won't say if Holder knew 'Fast and Furious' gun killed border guard. A document the
Department of Justice sent to Congress Friday shows that Eric Holder's deputy chief of staff was made aware
on the day of U.S. border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's murder that a weapon traced back to Operation Fast and
Furious killed him. But when asked Sunday, a Justice spokesperson would not would not answer The Daily Caller's
question about whether Attorney General Eric Holder himself was informed of the connection on that day.
The Holder
Department Of Justice Takes The Fifth. Should U.S. Attorney [Patrick J.] Cunningham refuse to
cooperate with the Congress and/or appropriate law enforcement officials, or should he actually take the Fifth
while under oath, we will be at that point of decision, and Mr. Cunningham — and the nation —
will have a serious problem. Mr. Cunningham is a member of the Department of Justice, those law enforcers
charged with watching the watchers, all of the law enforcers not only on the federal, but the state and local
levels. Who will watch the watchers of the watchers? Who will investigate and prosecute those potentially
trying to scapegoat Mr. Cunningham, if that is indeed what is happening? The very people who may be trying
to frame Mr. Cunningham are likely those who would be charged with investigating and prosecuting themselves.
Holder's
fantastical claim about 'Fast and Furious'. [Eric] Holder wants Americans to believe an obvious fantasy,
namely that he didn't know about Fast and Furious until witch-hunting House Republicans made it a highly charged
partisan issue a few months ago. But after reviewing new emails made public by the Justice Department last
Friday, it seems clear that accepting Holder's claim at face value would be credulous in the extreme.
Eric
Holder's False Testimony Warrants Impeachment. For incompetence alone, Attorney General Eric Holder
should resign in the wake of the illegal "Fast and Furious" gunrunning scandal. But fresh news that he knew
of it and is covering it up warrants impeachment.
Rep.
Issa threatens Holder with contempt over 'Fast and Furious' operation. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)
threatened to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the nation's top cop doesn't hand over
Justice Department documents within nine days. Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee, blasted Holder in a letter on Tuesday [1/31/2012] for refusing to comply with the panel's
subpoena for documents relating to the "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-trafficking operation.
Bribery,
compromised officials leave indicted financial-crime suspects free from prosecution under Holder's DOJ.
A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes
from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but
never arrested or prosecuted. The sitting governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his attorney general and
an unspecified number of Virgin Islands legislators also accepted bribes, the source said, adding that U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder is aware prosecutors and elected officials were bribed and otherwise compromised, but has
not held anyone accountable.
A
failed 'Fast and Furious' whitewash. "Operation Fast and Furious was the latest in a series of
fatally flawed operations run by ATF agents in Phoenix and the US Attorney's Office," say committee Democrats.
"Far from a strategy that was directed and planned by 'the highest levels' of the Department of Justice... the
committee has obtained no evidence that Operation Fast and Furious was conceived or directed by high-level
political appointees at Department of Justice headquarters." The operative words here are no evidence.
That's because Justice stubbornly refuses to provide any. Holder and his flunkies have spent more than a
year evading, prevaricating, changing stories and outright stonewalling.
DOJ Stonewalling
on Justice Kagan. In the course of Justice Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, emails
came to light suggesting that she had worked on behalf of Obamacare when she was in the Department of Justice.
Under normal conflict of interest principles, she would not be able to sit as a judge on a case where the issue
is the constitutionality of a statute that she supported as a lawyer. So Congressional Republicans have
pressed repeatedly for information on the role that Kagan played in relation to Obamacare when she served in
the Department of Justice. The response of Eric Holder's DOJ has been to stonewall.
Holder
Must Come Clean On 'Fast And Furious' Scandal. Issa's response was the right one, because that bungled
operation amounted to U.S. lawmen aiding and abetting sales of deadly weapons to Mexican drug cartels. It
made no sense from a legal, law-enforcement or national security point of view. It bore all the marks of
a White House political operation to sway U.S. public opinion in favor of gun control as the bodies piled up.
Congress
Warns Holder Over Acorn Payola. Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith fired
off a three-page letter to Attorney General Eric Holder warning that his recent punishment of Bank of America's
mortgage unit seemed political. In fact, he may have abused his power. As IBD first reported Jan. 4,
'BofA Must Pay Excess Settlement Funds To Acorn Clones," the $335 million lending-bias deal requires BofA
to fork over a chunk of the payout to leftist groups not connected to the suit. The unusual term is part of a
secret Justice program to redistribute millions in settlement cash to third parties instead of alleged victims.
GOP
report: Justice officials were on top of Fast and Furious. Top Department of Justice officials
had extensive knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious, claims a new report released Thursday [2/2/2012],
hours before Attorney General Eric Holder's scheduled testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The report released by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, top lawmakers investigating the
botched gunrunning operation, claims Justice Department officials in Washington and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives were involved in the coordination in the early stages of the operation.
Blood
Bath on Capitol Hill: Preview of Eric Holder Under Oath. Attorney General Holder will appear before
the House Oversight Committee this morning on Capitol Hill to answer questions specifically surrounding his role
in the the lethal Operation Fast and Furious program. Holder will have a ton of explaining to do including:
when he was briefed about the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, whether he was informed by his deputy
chief of staff at the time Monty Wilkinson about Fast and Furious guns being used to kill Terry the same day of
his murder, why the Justice Department has been stonewalling Congress for information and more.
Criminal
Rot Spreads Through Justice Department. There seems to be a pattern emerging in the Holder Justice
Department: DOJ employees committing crimes and very little seems to happen to them. I'm not just talking
about the questionable testimony under oath of Attorney General Eric Holder or Assistant Attorney General Tom
Perez. I'm talking about theft, graft, child porn, bribery, and perjury. The fact that very little
ever seems to happen to DOJ officials who purportedly commit the crimes tells you a great deal about the
leadership of the Obama DOJ.
Holder's
No. 2 in 2009: Gunwalking, Fast and Furious a 'terrific idea'. The head of the Department of
Justice's Criminal Division and Attorney General Eric Holder's highest-ranking deputy, Assistant Attorney General
Lanny Breuer, called Operation Fast and Furious and gun walking a "terrific idea" in emails to now-former Acting
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Ken Melson back in late 2009, according a report released by
Republican staff of the House Oversight Committee.
Respecting Eric Holder.
Eric Holder appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today, and received what can
charitably be called a hostile reception. He was grilled by Republican members over everything from Fast
and Furious — the intended subject of the hearing — to the Marc Rich pardon.
Holder
Repeats Fast And Furious Lies. After a series of Friday document dumps exposed DOJ's deceit, Deputy
Attorney General James Cole, in another letter to Congress, wrote, "Facts have come to light during the course
of this investigation that indicate the Feb. 4 [2011] letter contains inaccuracies." In other words, the
Justice Department lied to Congress. It lied again Thursday [2/2/2012] in the person of the attorney general
who once again failed to provide the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Eric Holder and his department
have lied to Congress. Scooter Libby was sentenced to prison for much less. We await Holder's fate
and hope justice will prevail.
Democrats
circle wagons around Holder in hearing. Democrats defended — even apologized to — Attorney
General Eric Holder throughout today's hearing on Operation Fast and Furious, impugning the motives of Republican
investigators and absolving Holder of any scandal.
Holder
should walk the plank on 'Fast and Furious'. At yesterday's hearing, Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley,
R-Iowa, who has also been probing the Fast and Furious program, released a detailed report about their investigation,
saying new documents they obtained demonstrate Holder's department "had much greater knowledge of, and involvement
in, Fast and Furious than it has previously acknowledged."
Gowdy
repeats call for Holder to resign 'the easy way,' or be impeached 'the hard way'. South Carolina
Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy reaffirmed his call for Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation "the easy way," or
impeachment "the hard way," during an interview with The Daily Caller after Thursday's House oversight committee
hearing during which Holder testified about Operation Fast and Furious. While he was questioning Holder at
the hearing, Gowdy explained that officials at the Department of Justice's headquarters were aware of Fast and
Furious and gun-walking tactics long before a "demonstrably false" letter was sent to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley
claiming otherwise.
Covering Up Fast & Furiously.
The Fast and Furious investigation in Congress is becoming even more fast and furious with Congressional Chairman
Issa threatening a contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder. Last week's Friday document
dump by the DoJ once again added to the widely held belief that that the AG and his minions are hiding something
from Congress and the American people, but what?
We're All Nonprofit Now.
[Scroll down] The Attorney General himself this week did a world class shuck and jive act to cover up his
handling of Fast & Furious, a bit of nincompoopery which cost hundreds of Mexican lives, the lives of two
American agents, and will certainly cause untold damage in both countries for years as drug lords make use of the
weaponry Holder placed in their hands. ... The corruption in the Department of Justice under Holder is not being
reported by the mainstream media, which barely covered the hearings. But online you might learn that
Department of Justice Prosecutors took bribes to forestall prosecution of indicted crime suspects; the
Department knows of it and has as of yet refused to prosecute these people or discipline them.
Holder
in Fast in Furious Testimony: I Should Be 'Given Some Credit'. If you weren't able to watch today's
congressional hearings with Attorney General Eric Holder on the Fast and Furious scandal, here's a taste of what
it was like. Two American law enforcement agents are dead, and despite bearing a significant measure of
responsibility, the Justice Department has been stonewalling for months and several pieces of evidence suggest
the DOJ has not told the truth about what it knows. When members of Congress voice their frustration with
this, Holder is defensive and says he deserves "credit".
AG
Holder May Be Held in Contempt for "Fast & Furious" Cover-up. Attorney General Eric Holder faced
tough questions about the "Fast and Furious" gun-trafficking scandal from outraged members of Congress during a
Thursday hearing, but he continued to defiantly stonewall while refusing to hand over key documents subpoenaed
in the congressional investigation. Republican lawmakers responded by telling the Justice Department boss
to resign and saying that if the cover-up continues, he could be charged with contempt of Congress.
Former
Tucson DEA head: Holder either knew of gun-walking, or was willfully unaware. Former Tucson Drug
Enforcement Administration chief Tony Coulson told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder either knew
guns were walking during Operation Fast and Furious, or should have known about the deadly practice. "[Fast
and Furious] was driven locally and it was driven from Arizona, from the ground up, I mean it was not much
oversight," Coulson said in a phone interview. "And, I mean, I can only speak to the reporting, but
people all the way up to the attorney general knew what was going on."
Holder granted extra time to turn
over 'Fast and Furious' documents. A key congressional Republican who had threatened to bring a
contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder if he did not comply with a demand for "Operation Fast
and Furious" documents by 5 p.m. Thursday [2/9/2012], has backed off his stated deadline.
Sheriff
Babeu: Fast and Furious mastermind should 'face criminal charges'. Pinal County, Ariz. Sheriff Paul
Babeu, a Republican congressional candidate, told The Daily Caller he thinks Attorney General Eric Holder "perjured
himself" before Congress when testifying about Operation Fast and Furious. "I believe that [Holder], and
many sheriffs in Arizona believe that, he has perjured himself," Babeu said during an interview with TheDC at
this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. "His story has changed.
After there was evidence produced that he did know — he was given briefings, he was given
emails — he then started to walk back his statements to say that, 'well, I misunderstood
the question.'"
Sen.
Cornyn says AG Holder 'dangerously ideological'. Sen. John Cornyn says Attorney General Eric H.
Holder Jr. is "playing politics" with the nation's anti-terrorism efforts and has compromised national security and
put the lives of military personnel at risk. ... "Holder has ignored genuine cases of voter intimidation, and he has
failed to vigorously enforce the right of our men and women in uniform deployed abroad to be able to cast their
ballot," he said. "Is this the kind of behavior that instills complete confidence in the President of the
United States?"
Issa
takes step toward holding Holder in contempt of Congress. On Tuesday [2/14/2012] Rep. Darrell Issa,
chairman of the House committee on Oversight and Government Reform, took a major step toward holding Attorney General
Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to provide subpoenaed documents and other information about
Operation Fast and Furious. In a Jan. 31 letter, Issa had threatened Holder with such a move if he
failed to provide all the subpoenaed documents relating to the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal by Feb. 9.
That deadline has come and gone, and Holder's Department of Justice still hasn't provided most of those documents.
Issa's subpoena dates back to Oct. 12, 2011.
Judicial
Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2011.
Attorney General Eric Holder now operates the most politicized and ideological Department of Justice
(DOJ) in recent history. And revelations from the Operation Fast and Furious scandal suggest that
programs approved by the Holder DOJ may have resulted in the needless deaths of many, including a
federal law enforcement officer.
Judicial
Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2011.
Fast and Furious was a DOJ/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) "gun-running"
operation in which guns were sold to Mexican drug cartels and others, apparently in hopes that the
guns would end up at crime scenes. This reckless insanity seems to have resulted in, among other
crimes, the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed in a shootout with Mexican criminals
in December 2010. Fast and Furious guns were found at the scene of his death.
Eric Holder's Protection of Voter
Fraud. Seeking to overturn a DOJ judgment that its voter photo identification law, passed in May 2011,
violates the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA), the state of South Carolina recently announced that it is suing the
Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder in federal court. The decision by South Carolina comes as
the DOJ is vigorously working to stop the spread of states enacting or implementing voter photo ID laws, prompting
fears that the Obama administration is undermining the integrity of the upcoming 2012 elections.
It's
time to return Holder's contempt. Since last May, Eric Holder has been stonewalling congressional attempts to
get to the bottom of Fast and Furious — a mess hatched on his watch by Obama appointees at the office of the US attorney
for Arizona and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. On Tuesday [2/14/2012], Rep. Darrell
Issa (R.-Calif) — whose House Oversight Committee is leading the congressional investigation — sent
Holder another in a series of stern letters, demanding that Justice comply with committee subpoenas that it's been pretty
much ignoring since Oct. 12.
Millions
of Dead Voters, Brought to You By Eric Holder. Over a year ago, I first warned that the Obama
administration adopted a policy of refusing to enforce federal laws which require states to purge dead and
ineligible voters from the rolls. I discuss at length the details of this policy as revealed to me when
I worked at the Justice Department in my book Injustice. Today we learn that American voter rolls
are infested with millions of dead and ineligible voters heading into the presidential election. Eric Holder
and his Leftist political appointees at the Justice Department have gotten exactly what they wanted.
Rep. Labrador is unafraid to speak truth to Holder.
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), less than two years in office, quickly made a national mark by shining a bright
light on the deeply troubling case of Operation Fast and Furious, the gun-running scandal that led to the murder of
Border Agent Brian Terry in Arizona in December 2009. ... He blames media coddling of President Barack Obama.
"The mass media don't want there to be any scandals in the Obama administration," Labrador said. "If this
were a Republican administration, this would be on the top of the news every single night until there were answers
or until ... heads rolled." Labrador said that the Obama administration should never have participated in
Operation Fast and Furious, but the apparent cover-up may be a greater scandal than the actual operation.
Is Obama Courting Dead
Voters? Attorney General Eric Holder has been waging an increasingly aggressive campaign of
late against state mandatory voter ID laws. Because he's concerned about discrimination.
Against zombies. Dead people have long been a major Democratic constituency, given that Democrats mostly
control the big cities where such voter fraud — and other types — tends to occur.
Eric
Holder Admits To Congress: Fast And Furious Was Executed 'Extremely Poorly'. Holder admitted
[2/28/2012] that the program, which was linked to the shooting death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, had
been executed extremely poorly. "It was a bad attempt at trying to deal with a very pernicious problem,
where guns are flowing from the United States to Mexico," Holder divulged. "In its conception, in its
execution, it was fundamentally flawed," Holder said about Fast and Furious.
Eric
Holder explains why he should be fired over Operation Fast & Furious. The answer that Attorney General Eric Holder
should have given to the first question should have been "Yes, and I take responsibility for what happened." Anything
else would simply make it glaringly obvious that Holder is fundamentally unfit for his job... which is what happened here.
Another
Straw-Purchaser, Another Federal Agent Dead (and Still Holder won't Comply). Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is
looking into the DOJ's role in Agent Zapata's murder, and believes the weapon which was used came from a program similar to
Fast and Furious. Which means that no one knows whether the gun-walking tied to Fast and Furious was ended, as Holder
said it was, only to be started again under another program (with another name), or whether the gun walking tied to Fast and
Furious simply continued longer than Holder claims it did.
Eric Holder: Targeted killings legal, constitutional.
Attorney General Eric Holder Monday presented the Obama administration's most detailed justification for armed
drone strikes carried out against Al Qaeda leaders, arguing that the U.S. government doesn't legally need judicial
review to kill terrorist operatives overseas — even when those individuals are American citizens.
Holder
says law gives 'clear authority' to kill US citizens overseas. Attorney General Eric Holder on
Monday [3/5/2012] said the Obama administration has the "clear authority" to kill U.S. citizens overseas who are
believed to be a terrorist threat. "Given the nature of how terrorists act and where they tend to hide, it
may not always be feasible to capture a United States citizen terrorist who presents an imminent threat of violent
attack," Holder said. "In that case, our government has the clear authority to defend the United States
with lethal force."
Former
Taliban defender appointed to third highest position at the Justice Department. One of the few
Americans with the distinction of having been a terrorist's defense attorney has been named number three in
command at the Justice Department. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Assistant Attorney General for
the Civil Division Tony West's promotion to Acting Associate Attorney General last week.
'American
Taliban' Attorney Now Number Three at DOJ. Over at Pajamas Media, J. Christian Adams lays out the
gruesome details of the elevation of Tony West to the No. 3 man at the Justice Department. Adams explains
that West and his San Francisco law firm have represented "some of the most radical Islamic terrorist causes, including
the American Taliban John Walker Lindh." Adams reports that, in his new position, West, who has brought into
senior Justice jobs other prominent jihadist defenders, will be overseeing detainee policy at Guantanamo Bay.
The Moral Hypocrisy of Barack
Obama. For those of us who remember Eric Holder and Barack Obama decrying waterboarding of three known
foreign terrorists who provided information that saved American lives and played a role in the killing of Osama bin Laden,
it is with some interest to hear the attorney general said the U.S. government has the right to order the killing of
American citizens overseas if they are senior al-Qaeda leaders who pose an imminent terrorist threat and cannot
reasonably be captured.
Obama's Kill Doctrine.
On Monday, March 5, Northwestern University School of Law was the location of an extraordinary scene for a free
nation. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder presented President Barack Obama's claim that he has the authority to
kill any U.S. citizen he considers a threat. ... What's even more extraordinary is that this claim, which would be
viewed by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution as the very definition of authoritarian power, was met not with
outcry but muted applause.
Obama and the assassin's
creed. This week, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. laid out the Obama administration's rationale
for assassinating Americans abroad. Cutting through the rhetoric, the argument still amounts to saying, "because
we can." Speaking to an audience at Northwestern University law school Monday, Mr. Holder revealed some of
the previously secret rationale for targeted killings of American citizens engaged in terrorism abroad.
Obama is judge, jury and executioner. In a speech
to students at the Northwestern School of Law, Holder asserted that Barack Obama had the lawful power to order "the killing
of American citizens overseas" if the president believes, based on secret information, that the American citizen is an
"operational leader of al-Qaeda." Holder went on to state that the presidential power to declare an American citizen
an enemy of the state based on secret information and order the death of that person was sufficient "due process."
He declared that the "Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process" overturning 200 years of settled
case law in one sentence.
Obama's
Alarming View on Who Wills the US Military. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told a Senate
committee on Wednesday that the US would "seek permission" from international organizations before committing
the military to war. He also made it clear that the Obama administration does not feel it necessary to
"inform" Congress or get their authorization for military action.
All the "domestic surveillance" protestors from a few years ago are now totally silent.
Can the president kill you?
Can the president kill an American simply because that person is dangerous and his arrest would be impractical?
Can the president be judge, jury and executioner of an American in a foreign country because he thinks that would keep
America safe? Can Congress authorize the president to do that?
So When Are We
Allowed to Be Intolerant? [Scroll down] As a specific example, consider what happened in
Dayton, Ohio, in February 2011. The Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered the Dayton, Ohio Police Department
to lower its testing standards to increase the number of minority candidates who passed the two-part examination.
The passing scores for the exam were reduced from 66% to 58%, and from 72% to 63%. The DOJ acted because,
in its opinion, not enough minorities were passing the test, but the ultimate result was that the DOJ order
guaranteed the continuance of mediocrity through lower civil servant standards. Those who studied, who
prepared, who worked to pass the exam were not rewarded for their efforts — indeed, they were penalized.
Justice Dept opposes
Texas voter ID law. The Justice Department's civil rights division on Monday [3/12/2012] objected
to a new photo ID requirement for voters in Texas because many Hispanic voters lack state-issued identification.
Justice
Department bars Texas voter ID law. The Justice Department has blocked a new law in Texas requiring
voters to show a photo ID, saying that it disproportionately harms Hispanic residents. The action is
the second time in three months that the Obama administration has blocked a state voter ID law.
Feds
challenge Texas voter ID. The U.S. Justice Department has rejected Texas' new Voter ID law.
The department on Monday [3/12/2012] said Texas did not meet its burden under Section 5 of the Voting
Rights Act and failed to show that the law will not discriminate against minority voters.
AG
Holder Could Be Jailed for Ongoing Fast & Furious Cover-up. Tensions are rising quickly in the
investigation of the deadly federal gun-running operation "Fast and Furious" as Attorney General Eric Holder's
Department of Justice continues to unlawfully withhold subpoenaed documents. The persistent stonewalling
prompted Congress to renew its warning that contempt proceedings against top Obama administration officials
are imminent if the cover-up does not end.
'No
comment': Democrat refuses to support Holder amid resignation calls. Oklahoma Democratic Rep. Dan
Boren won't say if he supports Attorney General Eric Holder amid a surge in the number of House members who have
demanded Holder's resign over Operation Fast and Furious. A spokesperson for Boren, a conservative Democrat
who is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, said the congressman had "no comment" on whether he still has confidence
in Holder.
Holder's Identity
Problem. The tyranny of the photo ID is so all-encompassing that people can't enter Holder's own
Justice Department without showing one. Holder is outraged that in a nation where requests for photo ID
are ubiquitous, more and more states are requiring that people show them when they vote.
Holder Makes the U.S. Less
Safe. Eric Holder oversees the most politicized Department of Justice in American history. Every
attorney general chooses his or her battles. Holder's legacy — beyond the Fast and Furious gun
running boondoggle — will be an obsession with race.
Another
congressman signs on to 'no confidence' in Holder resolution. Republican Rep. Rick Berg of North Dakota
tells The Daily Caller that he now supports the official House resolution of "no confidence" in Attorney General Eric
Holder. ... Berg is now the 121st member of the House to have signed the "no confidence" resolution, called for Holder's
resignation, or both.
Holder's Department of
Injustice. It takes indefatigable persistence to follow the unrelenting number of departures from the
protections of equal justice taken by this Department of Justice and the Obama administration in general. Eric
Holder no longer attempts, assuming he ever had before, to disguise the blatant favoritism for Democrat voting blocs
in his rulings — even while he applies selective enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Eric
Holder Plays Texas Hold 'Em In Voter ID Suit. The Justice Department's civil rights division, the
same group that dropped the case of a group of New Black Panthers wearing military garb and carrying billy clubs
as they stood outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008, has filed an objection in U.S. District Court to Texas'
voter identification law on the grounds it intimidates minorities and suppresses minority voter turnout.
Friday
document dump: Holder's DOJ releases more on 'Fast and Furious'. In what has become a pattern, Attorney
General Eric Holder dumped more documents related to Operation Fast and Furious on congressional investigators late
Friday [3/16/2012]. Terry Frieden of CNN reported that Holder coughed up "hundred of pages" of documents.
Assuming that means Holder did not produce more than 1,000 documents, the Justice Department is still far from
compliance with lawful congressional subpoenas.
Justice
Department is protecting voter fraud. In December, Obama's Justice Department
challenged South Carolina's voter identification law. Obama and his party clearly want as
many of what they consider undocumented Democrats — that would be illegal immigrants to the rest
of us — to have unfettered access to the polls. Lest anyone think I'm making a spurious
allegation against the Democrats, consider the Justice Department's own language in challenging
Texas' voter identification law, struck down by a federal judge earlier this week.
Holder 1995: We Must 'Brainwash'
People on Guns. Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public
campaign to "really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way." Holder was addressing the Woman's
National Democratic Club. In his remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use anti-smoking
campaigns as his model to "change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, DC" about guns.
Department of Injustice.
Something is very rotten at the U.S. Department of Justice. No other reasonable conclusion can be drawn from an
independent report on the 2008 prosecution of then-Senator Ted Stevens. ... Most damaging to Justice's credibility is that,
three years after Judge Sullivan set aside the guilty verdicts against Stevens, the department still hasn't disciplined the
men and women involved. Nor has it instituted harsher penalties for future abuses.
The
Obama Administration's Attack on Fair Elections. Judicial Watch recently announced a major new campaign
to stop leftist activists and their allies in the Obama administration from undermining the integrity of the elections
in 2012. As the nation heads into another presidential election season, our 2012 Election Integrity Project is one
of JW's top priorities. Our investigators have uncovered a multi-pronged strategy by leftist radicals to make
certain Barack Obama and other liberal candidates are reelected by hook or by crook — with the full support
and participation of the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ).
Union
Thugs Threaten Citizen Election Watchdogs. The Communist (I do not use that term recklessly) publication
People's World has an article full of threats and libel from union thugs and Soros-funded voter fraud deniers directed
at law abiding Americans: "Labor raising an 'army of 400,000' for the 2012 elections." Groups like True the Vote
and Judicial Watch are working to cleanse the voter rolls of ineligible and dead voters, using federal laws Eric Holder's
Justice Department won't enforce.
Barack's People: Is there a better
personification of Barack Obama and his disastrous, demagogic administration than Attorney General "my people" Eric Holder
and his Department of Justice? He is the only leader today more odious than Barack Obama, if only because he is
unabashedly racist, whereas Obama pretends not to be. Holder believes that his people deserve preference in all
things, and that the deaths of hundreds of Mexicans, due to the Fast and Furious program, designed by minions, are
unimportant. The death of one Democrat is a tragedy — hundreds of dead Mexicans are a statistic.
They're not his people, or our people, or anything of importance for that matter.
Senators demand firing
of prosecutors in case against Stevens. Senators are pushing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to fire the prosecutors
responsible for the "disgusting" botched criminal case against the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). The outrage in the upper
chamber follows the release last week of a 525-page report that found the government kept numerous pieces of evidence from Stevens's
attorney that could have proven his innocence or caused the case against him to be dismissed.
Government paid
nearly $1 million for Stevens report. Nearly $1 million was paid to the law firm that conducted a two-year
investigation of the government's bungled case against former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). The news comes as Henry Schuelke III,
who recently released a 525-page report on the botched Stevens case, readies to testify about his investigation before the
Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday [3/28/2012].
What if Trayvon Had Been
White, and the Shooter Black? The truth of the matter is that "civil rights" cases are often little more than reverse
lynch mobs. In the Old South of the past, white mobs would drag black suspects out of jail and lynch them in the streets if
they felt the wheels of justice were turning too slowly. Today, black mobs, often led by the likes of Jesse Jackson and
Al Sharpton, lead street protests or riots, and the Federal government comes after white suspects with the "rope" of "civil rights"
charges. And just like the old Southern sheriffs with ties to the Klan who turned a blind eye to the illegal actions of
whites, the Department of Justice often refuses to act on "civil rights" violations when the perpetrators are black and the victims
are white.
Laura Ingraham: Eric
Holder Not Going To Investigate The 'Black Panthers'. Radio host Laura Ingraham paid a visit to Fox & Friends Tuesday
morning [3/27/2012], where she was asked to weigh in on The New Black Panthers' $10,000 bounty for the "capture" of George Zimmerman,
the 28-year-old volunteer neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida.
"They want him 'dead or alive'," noted host Gretchen Carlson.
DOJ
on New Black Panther Party Zimmerman bounty — No comment. The U.S. Department of Justice had no comment
on the $10,000 bounty the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) was offering for a "citizen's arrest" of George Zimmerman, the 28 year old
man who told Sanford, Florida Police he shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin on February 26 in an act of
self-defense. According to a number of reports, the NBPP "called for the mobilization of 10,000 black men" to do the
"arrest." Zimmerman and his family have received death threats since the case became a national issue.
Holder's Revenge. Attorney General Holder recently
addressed the question of affirmative action, and for how long it would be required. He answered, stunningly, that reverse
discrimination has only just begun: "Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices," Holder said. "The
question is not when does it end, but when does it begin[.] ... When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are
entitled?" We see in these remarks the soil out of which rises the bitter fruit of racial resentment.
Eric
Holder Nailed $120,000 for Meritless Abortion Clinic Lawsuit. The Department of Justice has been forced to
hand over $120,000 for bringing a meritless abortion clinic access lawsuit against a clinic protester. This loss is
one of multiple lost cases by the Department of Justice against abortion clinic protesters. The Special Litigation
Section is the unit bringing the meritless cases. It was profiled in the PJ Media Every Single One Series as
being headed by and filled with Leftist ideologues. The Special Litigation Section sued Mary Sue Pine under the "FACE"
Act, which guarantees access to abortion clinics. The complaint alleged Pine obstructed a car entering the clinic by
standing in front of it.
Zimmerman
family challenges Holder on New Black Panthers. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday [4/9/2012], obtained exclusively by The
Daily Caller, a family member of George Zimmerman asked the nation's top law enforcement officer why he has chosen to not arrest members of the New Black
Panther Party for their rhetoric — some of which may fit the federal government's definition of a hate crime — throughout the Trayvon
Martin case. The family member believes the reason Holder hasn't made those arrests is because he, like the members of the New Black Panther Party, is
black.
Eric
Holder Praises Left-Wing Activist Al Sharpton. Attorney General Eric Holder praised left-wing activist
Rev. Al Sharpton at the opening of the National Action Network (NAN) convention on Wednesday [4/11/2012], and also
stressed that the Justice Department is conducting a thorough investigation of the fatal Trayvon Martin shooting
that "will examine the facts and the law." Sharpton, president of NAN and host of MSNBC's Politics Nation,
has led several rallies demanding the arrest of George Zimmerman, who reportedly shot Martin on Feb. 26. On
Mar. 30 in Sanford, Fla., where the shooting occurred, Sharpton pledged that his group would "move to the
next level if Zimmerman isn't arrested."
Holder's Black Panther
blind spot. What is it about the Justice Department and the Black Panthers? On March 24,
Mikhail Muhammad, leader of the New Black Panther Party, offered a $10,000 bounty for the "capture" of George
Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The Panthers distributed wanted posters, calling him a "child
killer" and offering the bounty "dead or alive." Muhammad warned that Mr. Zimmerman "should be fearful for his
life." These acts were almost certainly criminal.
Most
Corrupt Attorney General in US History Tells Al Sharpton Group: "This Is Our Moment". Wednesday [4/11/2012],
U.S. Attorney General Eric "My People" Holder spoke before activists with the National Action Network, an organization
founded by Al Sharpton, urging them to help the President promote his agenda.
GOP
lawyers' group chief: 'Desperate' Holder distorted our study to fit anti-voter ID agenda. Republican
National Lawyers Association (RNLA) Chairman David Norcross told The Daily Caller that a "desperate" Attorney General
Eric Holder distorted a study his group conducted about voter fraud to fit President Barack Obama's anti-voter
identification agenda. [...] Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) Chairman David Norcross told The Daily
Caller that a "desperate" Attorney General Eric Holder distorted a study his group conducted about voter fraud to
fit President Barack Obama's anti-voter identification agenda.
Top 10 miscarriages of the Justice Department. Rarely, if ever, has there
been a more politicized Justice Department than the one presided over by Attorney General Eric Holder.
Corzine
Steals Billions Sans Charges, Errant Whale Watcher Faces Prison. Which would you imagine might attract more aggressive enforcement
from the Justice Department: the theft of $1.2 billion from supposedly segregated customer brokerage funds, or lying about an alleged
incident of whistling to attract the attention of a whale so that whale watchers could get a better peep? If you said the latter, then you
appreciate the extent to which federal law enforcement priorities have run off the rails.
'Fair' elections, Obama-style.
The November presidential election is shaping up as a clear choice between a vision of a smaller federal role and President Obama's view
that there's no limit to what the government can do. One thing the administration won't do is ensure the choices Americans
make at the ballot box are properly counted. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has declared that widespread voter fraud
"does not really exist" in the United States. That was before video guerrillas presented him with an up-close view of the problem.
Investigate
Nugent But Not Farrakhan? Team Obama is eager to distract the American people from the economic
stagnation, job loss and sheer incompetence of this administration. Let's talk about [Ted] Nugent, not
Solyndra, the Chevy Volt, the soon-to-be $16 trillion debt ($5 trillion of which is Obama's), Fast
and Furious or even Hilary Rosen. Meanwhile, an administration that let the New Black Panthers avoid
criminal charges for wielding a billy club outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008 and that ignored the
bounty placed by the Panthers on the head of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting is concerned
about Nugent.
Amazon is Obama's Mistress.
Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, announced on April 11, 2012 that the Department of Justice is suing Apple and five major book
publishers on charges that they violated anti-trust laws by conspiring to raise the price of e-books. Here's the catch:
Apple and the five publishers were not conspiring to artificially raise the price of the e-books. They were merely switching
from an outdated "wholesale pricing model" for print books to an "agency model" that is better suited for e-books.
Contempt
Charges For Holder Imminent — "Weeks Away" According to Issa. This comes after a year of threats made by
Chairman Issa to hold officials of the Obama Justice Department in contempt for their obstruction of justice surrounding the
Fast and Furious scandal, unless they cooperated more fully.
Oversight
says reports of Holder contempt citation are false. A spokesman for the House Oversight Committee said reports that
the committee met with Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) office about moving ahead with a contempt of Congress citation against
Attorney General Eric Holder are false. "While the committee continues to move toward consideration of contempt, it is
important to note that the next step in the process of contempt must be made by the Oversight Committee," a committee spokesman
told The Hill in an email. "Reports, based on anonymous sources, that decisions for consideration of contempt on the House
floor have already been made are inaccurate."
Obama
Should 'Remove Eric Holder' and 'Just Come Clean' on Fast and Furious, Says Rep. Steve King. "If I were the president of
the United States, I would find a way for Eric Holder to step down, and it would be characterized as a firing," Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)
told Fox News on Thursday [4/26/2012]. King suggested it would be better for President Obama to fire Attorney General Holder rather
than let the "Fast and Furious" gun-running scandal blow up in Obama's face right before the election: "And as more of this
unfolds — and I think there is substantially more — you remember that September 19 is kind of the date
that bad things happen before elections," King said.
ACORN Whistleblower Says Obama DOJ 'Has Gone
Wild'. Unless voter integrity efforts take root this year, the notion of free and fair elections could become a
relic of American history, Catherine Engelbrecht warned listeners during the "True the Vote National Summit in Houston, Texas
yesterday [4/27/2012]. Engelbrecht, who is the president and founder of the organization, cited specific instances
throughout the country where the number of voters listed on registration rolls exceeded the actual number of eligible voters.
She also said it was far too easy for non-citizens to obtain voter registration forms.
Obama DOJ Wants Greater Power to Access
Cellphone Records. Barack Obama's Justice Department is requesting that access to cellphone records be made more available
to the government. Jason Weinstein, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's criminal division, asserted that
warrants for early stages of investigations "crippled" prosecutors and law enforcement officials and thus should be abolished.
The
Holder Justice Department: 'Disgusting and Shameful' Indeed. Why have Texas, South Carolina, and other states that have
passed common-sense voter-ID laws run into such dogged opposition from the Justice Department? One huge factor is the radical
ideology and bias of the staff who work in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, as revealed in a new report from Christian
Adams, a former Voting Section lawyer.
House
Republicans: Under Holder, 'Justice Department has become more partisan than ever'. House Judiciary Committee
Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, released a new report on Monday [4/30/2012] outlining why he believes the Obama
administration's Department of Justice "has become more partisan than ever." The report details how President Barack
Obama's DOJ — led by Attorney General Eric Holder — has been "stalling" the congressional investigation
into Operation Fast and Furious, has been "failing to enforce immigration laws" and has been "challenging voter ID laws."
Smith's report says Holder gave "inaccurate and incomplete testimony" about Fast and Furious during his May 3, 2011,
appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.
Issa
sends out draft contempt order against Holder, says 'Furious' response 'cannot stand'. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has
circulated a lengthy pair of documents making the case for holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his
"refusal" to cooperate in an investigation of the ill-fated Fast and Furious operation.
Rep. Issa
circulates contempt resolution against AG Eric Holder. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has circulated a draft copy of a
resolution that would hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. The 44-page measure was sent to members of the
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday [5/3/2012] in an attempt to shore up support for what would be the
toughest action taken by Issa as chairman of the powerful panel.
Contempt
Process Begins Against Holder on Fast and Furious. Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News reports that Republicans on the House
Oversight Committee will take the first formal step toward contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation
Fast and Furious. The draft consists of a briefing paper and 48 pages that will be distributed to Democrats and Republicans.
Cabinets gone
wild. Attorney General Eric Holder dropped charges against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation. That
may explain why he said nothing when the same group put out a dead-or-alive bounty poster on George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin
shooting case. Holder's department is suing the state of Arizona for passing a law to enforce the largely unenforced federal
immigration law. Holder suggested that the Arizona law was racially inspired even as he admitted that he had never read it.
Holder has praised the race-baiting Al Sharpton for his "partnership" and called the country "cowards" for not holding a national
conversation on race on his terms. The attorney general has referred to African-Americans as "my people," and he has characterized
congressional oversight of his office's failure to rein in the Fast and Furious scandal as racially motivated attacks on himself.
Few actions,
minimal compliance from Holder on Fast and Furious subpoena. A draft of a "contempt of Congress" citation House
Republicans released on Thursday [5/3/2012] shows that Attorney General Eric Holder is still far from complying with a
congressional subpoena over Operation Fast and Furious. And even within the categories of the subpoena where his
Department of Justice has taken some action, Holder's document production has been minimal.
Latest in Leak Farce: the 'Special Counsel' Folly.
[T]he GOP has loudly demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder name a "special counsel" to investigate Obama administration leaks of national defense information to the
New York Times. Seeing his opportunity to bury this embarrassing episode until after the November election, Holder is naturally accommodating them — or at
least doing enough to appear to accommodate them that the media will applaud as the story goes dark.
No one has confidence
in Attorney General Eric Holder's investigation of leaks. Fox News' "America's News Headquarters" asked for opinions on whether or not Attorney
General Eric Holder's investigation into national security leaks will uncover the truth. Many who responded must have seen, or read Twitchy's coverage
of, his abysmal and dangerously incompetent performance during the Congressional hearing on Operation Fast and Furious the other day. Because confidence
is, to put it mildly, lacking.
McCain: Eric Holder Has 'No Credibility' to
Oversee Leaks Investigation. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday said Attorney General Eric Holder has "no credibility" to oversee the investigation
into the recent spate of national security leaks and called for a special counsel to investigate instead. "Mr. Holder's credibility with Congress —
there is none," McCain said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We continue to have this problem with him withholding information on Fast and Furious which resulted
in the killing of a Border Patrol agent in Arizona. He is close to being held in contempt. There is no credibility."
Issa,
Boehner decline 'Fast and Furious' meeting with Holder until DOJ satisfies document subpoena. Attorney General Eric Holder
publicly asked House Speaker John Boehner, House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley during a Tuesday
morning [6/12/2012] hearing to meet with him one-on-one about Operation Fast and Furious. But the leading congressional
investigators said a House subpoena from October 2011 is still pending and the ball is in Holder's court.
Cornyn berates Holder in
hearing, calls for his resignation. Sen. John Cornyn lambasted Attorney General Eric Holder and called for his resignation
Tuesday morning during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Holder appeared before the committee to address questions about
Operation Fast and Furious and alleged politically-motivated national security intelligence leaks. Cornyn called for Holder
to resign over the attorney general's handling of Fast and Furious, making him now the fourth U.S. senator to do so.
Holder rejects resignation call at testy
Senate hearing. Holder rested his head on one hand as Cornyn recited a litany of allegations involving the attorney general's
performance. "I'm afraid we've come to an impasse," Cornyn said, adding that Holder "violated the public trust" in his view.
"With regret, you've left me with no choice but to join those who call for you to resign your office." Holder responded by calling
Cornyn's allegations "almost breathtaking" in their inaccuracies and said: "I don't have any intention of resigning."
Eric Holder Shows
Nothing But Contempt For The Truth In Fast And Furious Scandal. A House committee has announced a June 20 vote on
whether Attorney General Eric Holder is in contempt of Congress for withholding documents in the "Fast and Furious" scandal.
It can't happen soon enough.
Tricky 'Fast and
Furious' probe is slow and furious. [Attorney General Eric] Holder has been extremely vigilant attempting to stop states
from doing things like enforcing laws against illegal immigrants and cleaning non-citizens and non-breathing people from voter registration
lists. But Holder's surprising defense as the chief law enforcement officer in the United States of America in charge of the entire
Justice Department has been 'Gee, I really didn't know about Fast and Furious.'
House moving to hold Holder in contempt.
House Republicans said Monday [6/11/2012] that they will move to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress,
escalating a separation-of-powers battle over Fast and Furious, the Obama administration's botched gun-walking operation.
DOJ Sues Florida: Stop Removing Non-Citizens from Voter
Rolls. The US Department of Justice announced Monday it will sue Florida to stop the state from purging ineligible voters
from its voter rolls. The DOJ statement came after Florida filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security for failing to
cooperate with efforts to clean up the state's voter registration records.
Grassley wants 'somebody's scalp'
over Fast and Furious. Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking GOP Member Chuck Grassley said Tuesday evening that he wants
"somebody's scalp" over Operation Fast and Furious — and he stopped just short of joining his congressional colleagues
demanding Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation. "The only thing I want out of this is somebody's scalp that approved this,"
Grassley told Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren in a Tuesday evening [6/12/2012] interview.
AG wants to deal after call for contempt
vote. A day after House Republicans scheduled a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, the
nation's top law-enforcement officer told lawmakers he wants to work out a deal over releasing documents related to the "Fast and
Furious" probe. A newly conciliatory Holder testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday [6/12/2012] that he is
willing to compromise on some of the records the House Government and Oversight Committee has been demanding.
Why Does DOJ Tolerate Foreigners
on Florida Voter Rolls? You might wonder why the Justice Department is so hostile toward removing foreigners from the voter
rolls in Florida. DOJ sued Florida today to stop the removal on non-citizens from the rolls. Lots of people can't understand
why, but I can.
Meet the
Radical DOJ Lawyer Suing Florida to Keep Foreigners on Voter Rolls. The DOJ filed a complaint against Florida today to stop
Florida from removing ineligible non-citizens from the voter rolls. (Yesterday DOJ, disgracing long-established tradition, leaked
this impending news to a sycophantic blogger.) Florida has already discovered noncitizens who voted illegally in previous elections.
The lawsuit filed today seeks to stop Florida from purging non-citizens from Florida voting rolls. No word on whether Eric Holder's
Justice Department will be filing criminal charges against the foreigners who illegally registered to vote. Priorities lie
elsewhere.
Eric Holder's Corrupt Agenda. On Tuesday, [6/12/2012] the
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was filing a lawsuit against Florida over the state's push to clean its voter roles of dead
and foreign voters. The move comes on the heels of Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee,
scheduling a vote by his panel on June 20th aimed at holding U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing
to turn over documents in the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal. While the corrupt practices of Holder's DOJ may finally be getting
the attention they deserve, it is also becoming apparent that the department is not just degrading the principles of law and order to
advance a radical leftist agenda — but to enhance president's Obama's re-election chances by any means necessary.
Eric Holder and Operation Stonewall. In
recent testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a combative Attorney General Eric Holder strongly denied the
Justice Department is engaged in a cover-up over its involvement in "Operation Fast and Furious," the failed gun-buying probe which led to
the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and over 300 hundred Mexican citizens. Instead, Holder said the 14-month congressional
probe into the failings of Fast and Furious had devolved into nothing but a "political" effort intended to embarrass the Obama administration.
Bringing Eric Holder to Justice. Patience
has apparently run out with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and his refusal to turn over what congressional investigators consider
critical evidence in the ongoing Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation. On June 20th, the House Oversight Committee will
vote on whether or not to hold Mr. Holder in contempt of Congress. The vote would mark the fourth time in the last 30 years
that Congress has initiated contempt proceedings against a member of the executive branch of government.
Holder's last days?
After more than a year of half-truths, stonewalling, obfuscating and outright lying to Congress about the "gunwalking" scandal known as
Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder now finds himself trapped in a box canyon, out of ammo and surrounded by hostiles.
Holder agrees
to give Issa internal emails on Fast and Furious, offers to meet. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday agreed to make
what he called "an extraordinary accommodation" to Republicans investigating the botched "Operation Fast and Furious" by turning over
department emails he has long insisted deal with internal deliberations and should be protected. Holder is trying to head off a
push by House Republicans to hold him in contempt of Congress for allegedly "stonewalling" their investigation.
Holder aide who erred on
Fast and Furious leaves Justice Department. The senior Justice Department official who sent a letter to a Republican senator
falsely claiming that the department did not allow guns to be "walked" to drug smugglers in Mexico during the Fast and Furious investigation
left the department Wednesday [6/13/2012] to become dean of the Baltimore School of Law.
Senator: 'I Have Not
Been Impressed with [Holder's] Intelligence'. Texas senator John Cornyn called into question the intelligence of Attorney
General Eric Holder earlier today in a radio interview. "Do you think Holder is smart?," radio host Laura Ingraham asked Cornyn.
"I have not been impressed with his intelligence," Cornyn responded.
Corruptocrat Eric Holder's GOP
Enablers. While calls for U.S. Attorney General Eric "Stonewall" Holder's resignation grow and the House GOP
gears up for a contempt vote next week, it's worth remembering how we got into this mess. In two words: feckless
bipartisanship. [...] Bending to bipartisanship for bipartisanship's sake — and ignoring the obvious consequences — is
playing politics. And, conservatives, please remember the actions of all 19 Republican senators who ignored Holder's
abominable career as a political fixer and confirmed him.
Botching Fast and Furious.
Attorney General Eric Holder has no intention of resigning, especially on the say-so of Republicans — but the attorney
general has much to answer for, and Republicans should continue to make the case that he is wholly inadequate to his
position and operating in bad faith.
Senator
calls for Holder's resignation amid challenges over leak probe, Fast and Furious. Lawmakers' frustration with Attorney General Eric
Holder over an ongoing security leak probe and the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning operation boiled over Tuesday, with a top Republican lawmaker
calling on Holder to resign. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, made the call for Holder's resignation during a Senate hearing late Tuesday
morning [6/12/2012].
Holder Refuses to Provide Testimony on
Kagan's Involvement in Obamacare. Attorney General Eric Holder has refused to provide written testimony to the Senate Judiciary
Committee in response to "questions for the record" submitted to him by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) that focus on Supreme Court Justice Elena
Kagan's involvement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — AKA Obamacare — while she was President Barack Obama's
solicitor general.
Holder's Just-Us Department under Fire.
Whether he resigns or is removed or spends the rest of this year responding to Congressional inquiries, Attorney general Holder has treated the
Department of Justice as a partisan arm of the Obama Administration. Now and for the foreseeable future he is just another Albatross around
Obama's neck.
Fast and Furious Breeds Contempt. Will
Attorney General Eric Holder be held in contempt [of] Congress? It's a question that could be answered this week as lawmakers consider
what would be just the fourth contempt action against a member of the executive branch in the last thirty years. Janet Reno was the last
attorney general to hold such a dubious distinction.
Issa agrees to
postpone Holder contempt vote. House Oversight and Government Reform chair Darrell Issa, R-Calif., agreed to postpone the vote to
hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department delivers 1,300 pages of documents to his committee before
the vote is scheduled to take place.
Border Patrol group calls for Holder's
resignation. The National Border Patrol Council, which represents all 17,000 of the agency's nonsupervisory agents, called Monday for
the resignation of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for his role in the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation that resulted
in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Council President George E. McCubbin III, a 25-year Border Patrol veteran, described Mr. Holder's
actions in the case as "a slap in the face to all Border Patrol agents who serve this country," adding that the attorney general showed "an utter
failure of leadership at the highest levels of government."
Holder agrees to meet with Issa. Attorney
General Eric Holder agreed to meet with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Tuesday [6/19/2012] as part of his attempt to stave off a vote to hold him in
contempt of Congress. In a letter to the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent on Monday [6/18/2012], Holder
proposed the meeting in order to discuss the role of the Justice Department in the botched gun-tracking operation, Fast and Furious.
McGurn: Eric Holder's Politics of Contempt.
Finally, Eric Holder is on the ropes. House members are readying to vote him in contempt of Congress. [...] Should the House hold him in contempt,
Mr. Holder would be left with three choices: standing by as a U.S. attorney begins prosecuting him; directing the U.S. attorney not to prosecute
him; or invoking executive privilege to justify not releasing the documents Congress seeks. There are huge downsides to all three.
Is this the end of
Eric Holder's games? Bait-and-switch? Or breath-taking chutzpah? Either way, Eric Holder is in big trouble. The
embattled attorney general destroyed what little is left of his credibility yesterday afternoon when he failed to turn over 1,300 subpoenaed and
unredacted documents in the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal to House investigators led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
Issa Gives Holder One Last
Deadline Before Contempt Hearing. Darrell Issa is going go ahead with holding Eric Holder in contempt of Congress on Wednesday, after
the two sides couldn't come to a deal during a last minute meeting Tuesday evening [6/19/2012], unless he gets documents relating to the
Fast & Furious program by 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Last-minute deal fizzles, Holder
contempt vote still on tap. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. faces a contempt of Congress hearing Wednesday after refusing a
last-minute compromise offer to turn over subpoenaed documents to a House committee investigating the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning operation.
Holder shows
up empty-handed to Issa meeting, chooses path toward contempt of Congress. House oversight committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa said
Tuesday evening that his committee plans to move forward with contempt of Congress proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday
if he fails to produce promised documents before a scheduled 10 a.m. vote.
Contempt
coming? It appears at this point the scheduled Wednesday morning [6/20/2012] contempt of Congress vote for Attorney General
Eric Holder is still on as the Department of Justice has not released promised Operation Fast and Furious documents by its deadline.
Obama asserts executive privilege over
'Fast and Furious' documents. President Obama on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over documents sought by a House committee in
its investigation of the botched "Fast and Furious" operation. The last-minute move came just before the start of a scheduled hearing by the
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on a contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has refused
since October to honor a committee subpoena seeking the documents.
Obama grants Holder request on
'Furious' documents as contempt vote looms. Rep. Darrell Issa pressed ahead with a committee vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General
Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, despite an eleventh-hour move by President Obama to assert executive privilege over the Fast and Furious
documents at the heart of the dispute. The announcement touched off a caustic debate on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that
lasted well into the afternoon, as Democrats accused Issa of prosecuting a "political witch hunt" and Republicans stepped up their criticism of
Holder's "stonewalling" over the Fast and Furious probe. Even for Washington, the tone at the hearing was decidedly bitter and accusatory.
White
House grants executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents. The showdown between the White House and key congressional
Republicans over the administration's response to a controversial program that allowed guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels kicked
into high gear Wednesday. President Obama granted Attorney General Eric Holder executive privilege on the matter, while the head of
the House panel overseeing government conduct moved forward with proceedings to hold the nation's top law enforcement official in contempt
of Congress.
White House withholds Fast and Furious files. President Obama has taken
the rare step of asserting executive privilege to withhold documents sought by lawmakers probing a botched US sting operation. The attorney
general is facing moves to hold him in contempt of Congress over the issue. Justice officials said the privilege applied to files on how they
learned of problems with Fast and Furious.
Issa: 'Our Purpose Has Never Been to Hold
the Attorney General in Contempt'. In a last-minute maneuver before a House panel voted on a contempt of Congress charge against
embattled Attorney General Eric Holder, the Justice Department notified the House that President Barack Obama was invoking executive privilege
to shield documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)
made the announcement in his opening remarks to the committee on Wednesday morning [6/20/2012].
Fast and Furious
Investigation to Continue Regardless of Contempt Vote. Attorney General Eric Holder got a temporary lifeline from President Obama today [6/20/2012]
just minutes before the House Oversight Committee started debate over whether to hold Holder in contempt with a vote. Obama granted an executive
privilege request sent to him by Holder in letter form yesterday. The time at which the letter was sent is unclear, but Issa was unaware of the
request until today when he was informed by Deputy Attorney General James Cole the request had been granted.
Holder retracts claim Bush team
knew about Fast and Furious. In a second major retraction over its version of the the gun-walking scandal, the Justice Department has
retracted Attorney General Eric Holder's charge in a hearing last week that his Bush administration predecessor had been briefed on the affair.
In a memo just released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa senator reveals that Holder also didn't apologize to former Attorney General Michael Mukasey
for dragging him into the Fast & Furious scandal that is headed for a major legal clash and likely contempt of Congress charge against Holder.
Obama's Claim of
Executive Privilege: It's Frivolous. Holder's letter is a remarkable document. Viewed from a strictly technical
standpoint, it is a terrible piece of legal work. Its arguments are weak at best; in some cases, they are so frivolous as to
invite the imposition of sanctions if they were asserted in court.
Holder's "Extraordinary" Contempt.
And so we now know exactly what Eric Holder meant when he stated that he was ready to make "An extraordinary accommodation" to avoid a
contempt of Congress vote in the house. In an "extraordinary" meeting, at 5 pm EST yesterday, Holder arrived empty
handed. Congressman Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee had instructed Holder to produce some 1,300 documents,
emails and memos pertaining to subpoenaed documents related to the cover up of the Fast and Furious scandal.
Those Fast and Furious
documents must be dynamite. Even with his fawning press, [Presdient Obama] will pay a price for this one. He knows
this, meaning that the documents now to be withheld must be dynamite. They have to show either that Holder knew what was going
on with Fast and Furious and approved it, or that he directly committed perjury in his Congressional testimony, or both.
Obama's
Executive Privilege Has The Stench Of Cover-Up. The president illegally asserts executive privilege to protect an
attorney general who's either a clueless political hack, malevolent or both, withholding answers of who is responsible for a
Border Patrol agent's death.
Holder Will Lose Executive Privilege
Fight. President Obama's assertion of executive privilege to prevent Attorney General Eric Holder from complying with
congressional subpoenas on the Operation Fast and Furious fiasco will blow up in the White House's face. But not for the
reasons you've heard on the first day of this legal fight.
Obama raises legal
eyebrows with executive privilege claim. President Obama could be on shaky legal ground with his assertion of executive
privilege in a congressional investigation that has been going on for a year, according to scholars who study the limits of presidential
power. Louis Fisher, a former specialist on the separation of powers at the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, said he
found the administration's arguments "extremely unpersuasive."
Agents call for Holder's
resignation. An organization representing Border Patrol agents has called for the resignation of U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder due to "Operation Fast and Furious."
Holder Has Long Been Contemptible.
While the House Oversight Committee has now recommended that Congress hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for his conduct
during the Fast and Furious scandal, one could make the case that Holder has long held the American public in contempt. After
all, how many cabinet secretaries begin their tenure by calling his fellow Americans "a nation of cowards" where it concerned the
question of racism?
The
political forces driving Holder's contempt citation. Like virtually everything else that happens in or is said
about Washington for the next 138 days, Wednesday's House committee vote to hold Atty. Gen. Eric Holder in contempt is
totally saturated with politics. [...] And the dispute could end up in the courts, given the hardness of both sides' positions.
Although such a prosecution would need the cooperation of a U.S. attorney, who was appointed by Obama. Nobody knows what
would happen if he refuses.
Eric Holder is charged with
contempt — what's next? [Scroll down] If Holder is found in contempt, then the House could refer the contempt charge
to the U.S. District Attorney of the District of Columbia, Ronald Machen Jr. Referring Holder's contempt charge to Machen could
raise serious concerns, as Machen is both a part of the Justice Department under Holder and was a longtime backer of President Barack
Obama. Machen was an early supporter of Obama's presidential campaign and donated over $5,000 to Obama directly or indirectly
before being appointed by the administration in 2009.
Evidence mounting against Holder. The day before Holder was
scheduled to appear before the House Judiciary Committee, U.S. White House logs show that Attorney General Eric Holder and DHS Secretary Janet
Napolitano met with Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House on May 2, 2011. Omitted from the log is the nature and purpose
of the visit. The timing of the meeting is quite suspect based on Holder's planned testimony the following day, the mounting pressure from
Congressman Issa's committee, and Holder's stonewalling Issa's request for documents related to Fast & Furious.
White House spins Fast and Furious scandal.
Members of the public "do not expect Congress to waste time on a political motivated fishing expedition," Carney said. Carney tried to spin
the controversy to credit Attorney General Eric Holder for ending a tactic that was first used by lower-level officials during the administration
of George W. Bush. "The practice began in the previous administration, and it was ended in this one," he claimed. [...] "This is
entirely about principle," he said, prompting laughter from reporters.
The Editor says...
The Obama White House needs to be laughed at more often.
'This Is About Principle,' Carney
Says — Prompting Laughter From WH Press Corps. There is no White House cover-up; the Justice Department has given
Congress "every page related to the Fast and Furious operation;" and congressional Republicans are focused on a "politically motivated,
taxpayer-funded, election-year fishing expedition," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters on Thursday.
What's Bam hiding? Obama
asserted executive privilege Wednesday regarding House subpoenas for documents that might provide some clarity — subpoenas at which
Holder & Co. have been thumbing their institutional noses for months. Indeed, the privilege assertion comes 15 months after
Obama claimed that neither he nor Holder knew about, to say nothing of authorized, the gun operation. Holder himself testified in May 2011
that he'd only heard about the operation "in the last few weeks" — though memos later came to light that undermine that claim.
Eric Holder must surrender Fast and
Furious documents. [Scroll down] Further raising eyebrows, in May 2011 Holder told the committee that he had first heard of
the operation "over the last few weeks." Later, the committee obtained Justice Department memos about Fast and Furious addressed to Holder
dating from September 2010. Issa is targeting why Holder didn't provide the straight goods sooner. The question is a fair one and
takes precedence over Obama's claim that DOJ deliberations over dealing with the committee probe are off-limits to Congress.
President Obama, Attorney
General Holder and executive privilege. The only bases for the invocation of the privilege are the need to protect secret
deliberations and communications intended ultimately for the president that pertain to (a) military, or (b) diplomatic, or
(c) sensitive national security matters. Just because two or more people in the White House discussed a matter or reviewed
documents does not clothe their discussion or their document review with executive privilege. The conversation or document review must be
integral to advising the president on his official duties, and it must fit into one or more of (a) or (b) or (c) above.
Did Obama assert executive
privilege to bail out Holder before? [Scroll down] There are two possibilities in this case, ultimately: Obama asserted
executive privilege in 2009 for Holder to help him cover up his past, or Holder incorrectly claimed he didn't have "authority" to testify about
something when he did. White House spokesman Eric Schultz wouldn't answer when asked if Obama asserted executive privilege then, nor would
Holder spokesman Tracy Schmaler.
Why the
Ridiculous is no Laughing Matter. Now, Eric Holder may well be headed for a Contempt of Congress citation. What would happen
then is anyone's guess. We know what would happen if you or I lied to Congress. But we're just the little people. When we don't
pay our taxes, the IRS gets cross. But then we're not the Secretary of the Treasury. We can take it for granted that Eric Holder
flies somewhere above the law. But we do not possess the moral altimeter that can tell us how far above the law he flies. Is lying
under oath to a Congressional committee OK? I guess we'll find out.
Fast and Furious: Follow the Ideology.
At PJTV, Bill Whittle makes the case that Fast and Furious was driven by Barack Obama's and Eric Holder's anti-gun ideology. The case is, I
think, a persuasive one, as no one has offered an alternative explanation of why the administration would deliberately facilitate the shipment of
thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels, with no effort to track them unless and until they were involved in the commission of crimes. If
the administration didn't intend that Mexicans be murdered with Fast and Furious weapons, then what was the point?
Washington's
"Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2011. The Fast and Furious operation by itself should have resulted in Holder's
resignation, but it is the cover-up that has prompted serious calls for Holder's ouster. On May 3, 2011, in a House Judiciary
Committee hearing chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Holder testified: "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about
Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks." Newly released documents show he was receiving weekly briefings on Fast
and Furious as far back as July 5, 2010. It appears Holder lied to Congress. Unfortunately, when it comes to Holder
corruption and abuse of office, Fast and Furious is just the tip of the iceberg.
House Dem breaks from party, plans to vote for Holder
contempt. The Democratic Party's resistance to holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress is crumbling. Utah Democratic Rep. Jim
Matheson said Tuesday he plans to vote in favor of holding Holder in contempt over his refusal to comply with a subpoena into the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.
Congressional Black Caucus Walks out on Contempt
Vote. Instead of voting on Thursday [6/28/2012], the members of the CBC walked out of the Chamber of Congress. Joining
them were Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer.
House holds Holder in contempt over
'Fast and Furious' documents. The House on Thursday cited Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for contempt of Congress in a historic
vote weighted with political significance — though it does little to break the stalemate over his decision to withhold documents regarding the
Justice Department's actions in a botched gunwalking operation. The House voted 255-67 to hold Mr. Holder in criminal contempt in a vote that
amounted to a political spanking for the attorney general and President Obama, underscored by the 17 Democrats who joined Republicans.
What's next for Attorney General Eric Holder?
[Scroll down] But what will become of Eric Holder? Well, his citation for criminal contempt will be turned over to the U.S. Attorney for the
District of Columbia, Ronald Machen. [...] And if he [Machen] does decide to move forward against Eric Holder, Machen can always be over-ridden by
his boss, the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder. Anyone who thinks Holder would be afraid to perpetrate such a political outrage
hasn't been watching the same Attorney General, and Administration, that I have. Don't make the mistake of believing the media would excoriate him
for such a transparently corrupt exercise of power.
Justice Department Won't Prosecute Holder
for Contempt. After Congress found the nation's top law enforcement officer in contempt Thursday [6/28/2012], the Department of Justice
quickly wrote a letter to House Speaker John Boehner informing him that it will not prosecute U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for withholding documents
in a congressional investigation of the Fast and Furious gun walking operation.
Arrest Eric Holder. It turns out that the House could
encourage immediate cooperation by arresting Holder. Such a move would be based upon something called "inherent contempt," a process that,
writes The Washington Times, "is well-established by precedent, has been confirmed by multiple Supreme Court rulings, and is available to any
Congress willing to force such a confrontation." It was also recently alluded to by none other than Nancy Pelosi when she addressed what
she considered Karl Rove's contempt of Congress and said, "I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day. I'm not kidding. There's
a prison here in the Capitol.... If we had spotted him in the Capitol, we could have arrested him." But the will is the issue, as our
Congress is just not that confrontational.
Racial Politics Thicker Than Justice.
When the House voted last Thursday to find Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress, members of the Congressional Black Caucus walked
out. Why is the Black Caucus trying to make this about race? It's about Holder's refusal to turn over Justice Department documents requested
by the House Oversight and Government Committee in its investigation of the "Fast and Furious" operation.
Poor Eric Holder:
He's taking all this unwarranted flak just to save Obama. The way Attorney General Eric Holder sees it, all this mounting criticism of
his inept leadership as the nation's top law enforcement officer is simply predictable politics of the worst kind in an election year. [...] The way
Holder sees it, this whole mess isn't really even about him, as important a fellow as he is. It's really about President Obama.
Holder's Contempt: Who Owns the Government?
President Obama has raised the stakes. This not just a political dust-up; not merely a healthy test of strength between two co-equal branches of
government. The rule of law is being challenged by Mr. Holder and the President. The Constitution invests tremendous power in the federal
government. In return we the people are entitled to full transparency and accountability from its officials. A routine congressional
investigation has evolved into a monstrous scandal and cover-up. It is as if they have missed the lessons from all the failed cover-ups of their
predecessors. Congress and the Courts should act with haste and conviction to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Eric Holder Cries To The Washington
Post. Attorney General Eric Holder is in big trouble! So once again the Old Media must swoop in to the rescue.
Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Holder in DC.
Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found
in criminal and civil contempt of Congress. Last week, the bloggers who first exposed Operation Fast and Furious, Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea, filed a formal
complaint with the Washington, D.C. Office of Bar Counsel alleging that Holder committed "professional misconduct" during the congressional investigation into the scandal.
At
La Raza Summit, Disgraced AG Eric Holder Touts Amnesty & Threatens States. Less than two weeks after becoming the first sitting
cabinet member in American history to be held in contempt of Congress, disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder spoke in front of the highly
controversial National Council of La Raza — it means "The Race" in Spanish — and issued threats against ongoing state
and local efforts to control illegal immigration or enforce voter-ID requirements. He also touted an administration effort to stop
deportations while promising to keep working with President Obama to pass the "Dream Act" and secure amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Holder At National Council of La Raza
Convention Promises Aggressive Civil Rights Protection. Holder also offered a specific warning to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio,
and any agency wanting to emulate Arpaio's efforts to round up and expel undocumented immigrants at any cost. "These policies simply have no
place in responsible law enforcement, and they must not and simply will not be tolerated as long as I am attorney general of the United States,"
Holder said. The statement drew cheers.
NAACP Requires Photo I.D. to See
Holder Speak. Earlier today [7/10/2012], Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the NAACP Nation Convention at the George R.
Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. What did media need in order to attend? That's right, government issued photo identification
(and a second form of identification too!), something both Holder and the NAACP stand firmly against when it comes to voting. Holder's DOJ
is currently suing Texas for "discriminatory" voter ID laws.
AG Holder says Texas ID law would
harm minorities. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder added a timely Texas flavor to his address to the NAACP Convention in Houston Tuesday
morning, explaining why the Justice Department refused to approve the Lone Star State's proposed voter ID law.
Holder's Jim Crow Politics.
Some of our liberal friends were a tad upset when we wrote last month that Attorney General Eric Holder was using the voter ID
issue to stir up racial incitement. But maybe they should complain to Mr. Holder, who can't seem to liberate himself from
a Jim Crow-era political mindset. Speaking to the NAACP in Houston on Tuesday [7/10/2012], Mr. Holder assailed the Texas
law that requires voters to show some identification, using terms redolent of Deep South racism before the passage of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965. "Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them — and some would
struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them," he said. "We call those poll taxes."
Holder compares
Texas voter ID law to post slavery poll taxes. In a speech at the annual NAACP conference, in Houston, Holder said
many voters would have to travel "great distances" to get a government-issued photo ID and that some would "struggle" to pay for
the requisite paperwork. "We call these poll taxes," Holder said. He also said the Texas law hurts minorities and
that politics is the driving force behind the issue. Holder called Texas the "center of our national debate" on voting
rights issues and vowed the Justice Department would "aggressively" fight to enforce those rights.
Holder
to NAACP: Photo ID Laws Will Reverse Civil Rights Gains. One day after a three-judge panel heard arguments about
the legality of Texas's photo ID voting law, Attorney General Eric Holder went to Houston to speak at the NAACP Convention.
Holder denounced Texas's photo ID law as a political stunt used to disenfranchise minorities during his speech. Attendees
and journalists were asked for photo IDs to verify their identities at the conference.
Chambliss
Not Impressed With Holder's Response to SWATing. A month ago, 80 members of Congress called for the Justice
Department to investigate SWATing in a letter sent directly to Attorney General Eric Holder. Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss
was the first member of Congress to call for an investigation and now a month later, he is less than impressed with Holder's
response to the situation. He sent Holder another letter yesterday [7/11/2012] showing his disappointment in the non-action
from the DOJ to address the issue.
Senator
Chambliss Demands More Action from Attorney General on SWATtings. In Wednesday's [7/11/2012] letter, Senator
Chambliss emphasized the dangers that SWAT-ting presents, and warned "When innocent people are handcuffed, children witness
their parents treated as criminals, helicopters overhead awaken the neighbors and the victim realizes that one wrong move by
him or his family could lead to irreversible catastrophe, there is overwhelming cause for concern." Since Chambliss' initial
letter was sent to Holder, another SWATting has occurred.
Eric Holder's war.
The president was a no-show, Joe Biden exhorted the crowd to stick with Obama and Mitt Romney gave a frank address to the nation's
oldest civil-rights organization in which he vowed to repeal ObamaCare. But the most important news out of the NAACP in
Houston this week came from Attorney General Eric Holder, who vowed to continue the Justice Department's war on states trying to
ensure the integrity of the electoral system. "The arc of American history has always moved toward expanding the electorate,"
said Holder.
The Editor says...
Unfortunately that is true. The electorate is expanding to include felons, illegal aliens, dead people, motor voters, serial voters,
ignorant teenagers, and fictitious people like Doodad Pro.
Complaint
seeks to have Holder disbarred after contempt vote. A formal complaint was filed last week with the Washington,
D.C., Office of Bar Counsel — of which Holder is a member. The letter was submitted by gun-rights advocates
and bloggers David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh, who have reported extensively on Operation Fast and Furious. The
complaint says it appears Holder has violated the rules of professional conduct after he was found in contempt of Congress
last month for not complying with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoena seeking documents pertaining
to the administration's handling of Fast and Furious.
New Jim Crow in Guam: Where's Holder?
The challenge to Guam's law was brought by Dave Davis, a retired Air Force major who has lived in Guam for 35 years. [...] Justice's
indifference to his complaint is striking given that Guam's law is even worse than many of the odious Jim Crow statutes that limited
voting in the South. "Even under Jim Crow, some blacks successfully registered to vote after they navigated the nasty maze of
character exams and shifting office hours," says former DOJ civil-rights attorney Christian Adams, who is representing Major Davis.
But under Eric Holder, the Justice Department has engaged in a pattern of selective enforcement of discrimination laws. [...] In Guam,
the desire to bar non-Chamorro voters from participating in the referendum has a clear racial motive.
Taking
Down the Second Amendment: The Connection between Fast and Furious and the Trayvon Martin Case. [Scroll down] Before
Fast and Furious, the AG was notorious for engineering last-minute pardons for Marc Rich, on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List for the largest
tax fraud in history, and for sixteen members of FALN, the Puerto Rican terrorist group that killed several people in bombings in Chicago
and New York. But a more revealing accomplishment was his role as point man in the kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez. After applying
for a court order to seize the boy from his legal guardian, Holder went ahead with the operation without one, then baldly denied that Elian
was seized at gunpoint. Holder was not fazed by the fact that millions of people throughout the world had seen Alan Diaz's disturbing
photo.
Justice Department
opens investigation into Pennsylvania voter ID law. The Department of Justice is investigating whether Pennsylvania's new voter ID
law is discriminatory, according to a letter released Monday [7/23/2012].
Justice Dept. opens probe
of Pennsylvania's voter-ID law. The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of Pennsylvania's
new voter-ID law, asking the Corbett administration to document its repeated claims that 99 percent of the state's voters have the photo
identification they will need to vote in November.
Is Stealing the November Election Eric Holder's End Game?
Amazingly, Holder can apparently remain totally oblivious to flagrant crime if it serves his interests, while summoning an uncanny ability to concoct
misdeeds where none have occurred. For just as resolutely as he refused to concede perpetration of crimes by the New Black Panthers, he fiercely
pursues the ostensible possibility of "voter intimidation" elsewhere in the nation, absent any credible accusations from disenfranchised voters, but
instead based on the premise that merely requiring legitimate identification might result in such.
Eric Holder's Keystone
State Voter ID Shakedown. The Eric Holder Justice Department has done it again, this time in Pennsylvania. Not content
to use Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to shake down Texas and South Carolina, the DOJ yesterday [7/23/2012] sent a demand to the Keystone State
for stacks of documents regarding Pennsylvania voter ID. This letter was a highly irregular and purely partisan exercise designed
to stoke Obama's electoral base in Philadelphia. It is also designed to placate the civil rights industry, which has quietly simmered
about the lack of enforcement of the Voting Rights Act to help minorities over the last three years.
Revealed:
Corzine's MF Global Was Client of Eric Holder's Law Firm. Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after
Jon Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need look no further than the documents uncovered by the
Government Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-defunct MF Global was a client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant
Attorney General Lanny Breuer's former law firm, Covington & Burling. There's more.
No justice in Corzine case. As the march
to the November elections heats up, voters can expect to find fewer and fewer issues that unite Democrats and Republicans. Yet one
emerging issue appears to be gathering enough steam to produce a rare point of bipartisan agreement: the Justice Department's
unwillingness or inability to charge, prosecute and seek conviction of a single Wall Street executive in the wake of the largest financial
collapse in U.S. history. One of the most glaring examples of the cronyism that has ground the process to a halt can be seen in the
lack of any real action against former MF Global chief Jon Corzine.
Watchdog Finds Nepotism at Justice
Department. The Justice Department's internal watchdog said Thursday [7/26/2012] that eight current or former officials at
one of its divisions steered jobs to children and other relatives, violating laws and regulations that forbid nepotism. Similar
allegations of improper hiring practices at the department's Justice Management Division, which oversees administrative and back-office
staff, have been the subject of repeated investigation by the department's inspector general. Reports in 2004 and 2008 also found
instances of family members being promoted or hired in violation of the law. And each time officials promised to make lasting changes
to hiring practices.
Justice
Department officials violated nepotism rules, new report says. Eight Justice Department officials tried to get their
children and other relatives hired at the department in violation of laws and regulations, according to a report released Thursday [7/26/2012]
by the department's inspector general. The nepotism violations in the division that serves as the Justice Department's management arm were
revealed in the third investigation of the division in the past decade, according to Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz. His office
found similar improper hiring practices in 2004 and 2008.
Sources: Eric Holder
scolded Capitol Hill intern for taking notes during lecture. Sources have confirmed to The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric
Holder on Wednesday [7/25/2012] scolded an intern from House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's office for taking notes during a lecture he gave on
Capitol Hill. According to one intern who was present, Holder had just started speaking when he noticed a male intern who was standing on
the side of the packed room beginning to take notes with a pen and paper.
Republicans
hit Justice Department on voter ID. House Republicans on Thursday [7/26/2012] criticized the Justice Department's decision to
challenge new voter ID laws in several states, saying it shows the Obama Administration is more concerned with Democrats winning in November
than protecting against election fraud.
Republicans slam Justice Department on voter ID moves.
Congressional Republicans told a top Justice official Thursday [7/26/2012] his department is wrong to fight state voter ID laws and that the
government needs to do more to ensure people serving abroad in the military are able to vote. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Arizona, said the Justice
Department "is seeking headlines opposing voter ID laws that an overwhelming majority of Americans support."
DOJ Official Won't
Say Whether Justice Department Would 'Criminalize Speech against Any Religion'. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division
Thomas Perez refused to say Thursday whether the Justice Department would ever "entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any
religion." During a House subcommittee hearing examining fairness in voting rights enforcement, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), chairman of the
House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, referenced an article detailing a meeting between top Justice Department officials and Islamist advocates,
where the advocates reportedly lobbied officials for "a legal declaration that U.S. citizens' criticism of Islam constitutes racial discrimination."
DOJ to Colorado Family: Give Up Your Religion or
Your Business. The Justice Department last week presented the Newland family of Colorado — who own Hercules Industries, a
heating, ventilation and air-conditioning business — with what amounted to an ultimatum: Give up your religion or your business.
"Hercules Industries has 'made no showing of a religious belief which requires that [it] engage in the [HVAC] business," the Justice Department said
in a formal filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
Justice Department Blocks Voter ID at Every Turn.
People seemingly voting after they've been dead for years. Drug kingpins buying votes from poor people to sway elections. Non-citizens
being bussed to the polls and coached on how to vote. Stories of voting fraud are shocking, and states have been taking action to make sure that
elections are secure. But the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Eric Holder, has blocked states at almost every turn.
Top 10 most dangerous liberals. [#5] Eric
Holder: Under siege in the Fast and Furious scandal, the attorney general has dropped all pretenses and is brazenly using the DoJ to pursue a
political agenda. The department filed suit against Arizona's immigration law and Texas' voter ID law and Holder continually plays the race
card to excuse his power grabs. As the contempt of Congress charge plays out, expect Holder to play hardball and lash out at critics.
Federal Court: DOJ
Official May Have Lied About the New Black Panther Case. In a little noted decision on July 23, a federal district court
judge concluded that internal DOJ documents about the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case "contradict Assistant Attorney General
[Thomas] Perez's testimony that political leadership was not involved in" the decision to dismiss the case. In other words, the sworn
testimony of Perez, the Obama political appointee who heads the Civil Rights Division, before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was apparently
false.
Federal
judge rules political appointees interfered with voter intimidation case. Increasing attention is being paid to irregularities
at the polls, and the legitimacy of efforts to minimize them. A federal judge just issued a ruling that will become part of this debate.
As reported by Conn Carroll of the Washington Examiner, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton "held today that political appointees
appointed by President Obama did interfere with the Department of Justice's prosecution of the New Black Panther Party."
Federal
Court finds Obama appointees interfered with New Black Panther prosecution. A federal court in Washington, DC, held today [7/30/2012]
that political appointees appointed by President Obama did interfere with the Department of Justice's prosecution of the New Black Panther
Party. The ruling came as part of a motion by the conservative legal watch dog group Judicial Watch, who had sued the DOJ in federal
court to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents pertaining to the the New Black Panthers case. Judicial
Watch had secured many previously unavailable documents through their suit against DOJ and were now suing for attorneys' fees.
Yes, vote fraud's real.
Democrats' chicanery extends back to the days of Tammany Hall and other big-city machines. But today, much of the dirty work is
done by lawyers. So maybe it's not so surprising that Holder is either "investigating" or actually suing states like South Carolina,
Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania that have instituted tougher new requirements, including the presentation of government-issued ID.
Never mind that the Supreme Court by a 6-3 vote has already upheld the constitutionality of requiring valid identification in a
2008 case in Indiana. Holder, the most politicized attorney general since Nixon's John Mitchell, has consistently moved against any
efforts to protect the integrity of the ballot box in the service of the party that keeps him employed.
Newt: As speaker, I would
defund Justice Dept. until Holder ousted. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told The Daily Caller on Friday [8/10/2012]
that if he were still atop the House of Representatives, he would defund the Department of Justice until Attorney General Eric Holder
resigned or was fired. [...] Gingrich said he expects a federal judge to overturn President Barack Obama's assertion of executive
privilege over the Operation Fast and Furious documents, although he is not entirely sure.
Suing the Contemptible Holder. Republicans have
cornered the market on compassion — the real and not politically contrived variety. Monday [8/13/2012], House Republicans petitioned
a federal court to uphold their subpoena requiring that the Justice Department turn over documents pertaining to the sale of weapons to Mexico's
deadly drug cartels by the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives.
Banks Fight Back Vs. Holder's Race-Bias 'Witch
Hunt'. For the past three years, the Justice Department has filed a series of bruising lawsuits against U.S. lenders for race discrimination while
hiding behind opaque investigative methods and hoping banks don't challenge the cases in court. But while most banks have quietly settled the record number
of lending-bias claims, some are fighting back against what they call a never-ending "witch hunt." In interviews with IBD, bankers and their lawyers complain
that Attorney General Eric Holder and his army of civil-rights prosecutors have built their cases around dubious statistical models instead of complaints from
actual victims of discrimination.
Voter Identification and Stupidity. Attorney General
Eric Holder, testifying on August 15, 2012, before a Senate Judiciary Committee, may have made the most racist statement ever. Holder said that minorities are
"biologically incapable" (meaning too stupid) of obtaining voter identification."
Holder Justice Department Recruits Dwarfs, Schizophrenics,
and the 'Intellectually Disabled'. The PJ Tatler has obtained documents from the Justice Department detailing efforts to recruit
attorneys and staff who are dwarfs or who have "psychiatric disabilities" or "severe intellectual disabilities." On May 31, 2012,
Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez issued a directive to affirmatively recruit people with these "targeted disabilities." This DOJ policy
does not merely involve prohibitions against discrimination, but rather the documents reveal deliberate recruitment efforts to hire as attorneys
and staff for the Department of Justice people suffering from psychiatric disorders and intellectual disabilities.
The Editor says...
Why would the leadership of the Justice Department do something like this? Because the Justice Department is politicized from top
to bottom, and the next President will find it impossible to fire these people. It's like pouring sugar in the gas tank of a car
right before it is repossessed, just to be spiteful. By loading the Justice Department with half-wits and psychotics, the next
(non-Democrat) administration will have a hard time prosecuting any voter fraud that takes place in the November 2012 election. On
the other hand, how many people with "severe intellectual disabilities" make it through law school?
Holder's "severe mental deficiency".
Mr. Holder's crazy new human-resources priority says it's necessary to ensure that people with targeted disabilities "have equal employment
opportunities." It then goes into detail on all the ways in which they will be given special, exclusive treatment. The disabled are
eligible for direct hiring in a "streamlined, non-competitive appointment" process that the policy lauds as a "win-win" for the department and the
applicant. Of course, this preferential treatment is a lose-lose for the other, perhaps vastly more qualified applicants who were never let
in the door, as well as for American taxpayers who cannot benefit from a superior level of public service.
Holder: Justice shares 'common cause' with
gays. Attorney General Eric Holder drew raucous applause when he affirmed that the Department of Justice and lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lawyers and activists share a "common cause." In speaking to a gathering of LGBT lawyers in the
ballroom of a Washington hotel on Thursday evening [8/23/2012], Holder praised "the strength of your passion" in the fight for
equality. ..."
Koutoulas:
Holder's DOJ "Biggest Enabler Of Financial Crime In U.S. History". According to the trustee's report, MF Global was routinely
using customer funds to fund intraday operations as far back as August, months before the bankruptcy. That's a violation of the Commodity
Exchange Act. Then, once their credit rating was downgraded, they just outright took those funds and wired them to JPMorgan to meet house
margin calls, which is also a violation of the Commodity Exchange Act. It is a felony, and it bears a penalty of 10 years in prison
per offense.
Corzine gets the New Black Panther
treatment. To control prosecutorial exertion is to control when and where the law is applied. Whom the posse pursues should
not be a whim of political influence, but a matter of compulsory legal scrutiny. No man is above the Law. No man, not even the Attorney
General, should decide if and when and to whom law is applied. And Congressional testimony, though unpleasant, is not penance.
DOJ Targeted Public
Library for Lending E-Books 'Inaccessible' to the Blind. The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached a settlement
with the Sacramento (California) Public Library over a trial program the library was conducting that let patrons borrow Barnes and
Noble NOOK e-book readers. DOJ and the National Federation of the Blind objected to the program on grounds that blind people
could not use the NOOK e-readers for technological reasons.
Justice Dep't
approves New Hampshire voter ID law. The Justice Department approved New Hampshire's new voter ID, a version that is
stricter than existing rules in the Granite State, but not as restrictive as other voters ID laws that the DOJ has rejected.'
The Editor says...
How is the Justice Department, or any other federal agency, in a position to approve or disapprove of state laws? Have we really arrived
at that point, or does the Justice Departement merely presume to have powers it was never given?
Report:
Sensitive information at risk; long delays in DOJ security process. The Justice Department has significant delays in its security
clearance process and can't guarantee that only approved officials have access to sensitive information, according to a new report issued by the
DOJ's inspector general. The DOJ's security clearance process for agency officials — including those in the FBI and DEA —
is slow and inadequate, according to a 112-page IG report released on Thursday [9/13/2012].
Trashing the Constitution.
Constitution Day is Monday, Sept. 17, so I compiled a non-exhaustive list of the ways Barack Obama has violated the Constitution. [...] [For
example,] Violating equal protection and voting rights. The 14th Amendment guarantees "due process" and "equal protection of the
laws." The 15th Amendment guarantees that "the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race."
Mr. Holder ditched the case of New Black Panther Party members videotaped intimidating Philadelphia voters in 2008. Two former Justice
Department officials testified that employees were told to ignore white complainants.
Corzine,
MF Global Will Face No Criminal Charges. After ten months of investigating Obama campaign bundler and former MF Global
chief Jon Corzine's role in the loss of $1.6 billion of customer funds, the New York Times is reporting that Eric Holder's
Department of Justice is unlikely to file any criminal charges against Corzine or top MF Global executives. As
Breitbart News has reported, the case is riddled with serious conflicts of interest.
Justice Inaction: The Department of Justice's Unprecedented
Failure to Prosecute Big Finance. Despite Attorney General Eric Holder's heated rhetoric promising to hold Wall Street
accountable, an investigation into the Department of Justice's handling of the 2008 financial crisis found that:
• The Department of Justice has not filed a single criminal charge
against any top executive of an elite financial institution.
• Attorney General Holder, Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli,
Associate Attorney General Tony West, and Deputy Associate Attorney General Karol Mason all came to
the DOJ from prestigious white-collar defense firms, where they represented the very financial
institutions the DOJ is supposed to investigate.
• Top DOJ officials played prominent roles in his 2008 campaign. Holder
co-chaired the campaign with Tony West, the DOJ's third highest official.
• No other modern administration has staffed the DOJ with big money
fundraisers. Holder bundled $50,000 for Obama's 2008 campaign, while Perrelli, West, and Mason all
bundled $500,000 for the campaign. West also helped raise an estimated $65 million in
California.
• Washington's "Revolving Door" is at work in the DOJ. Top Justice officials came from and
returned to law practices where they defend the financial institutions the DOJ is tasked with prosecuting.
Why
Goldman Sachs, Other Wall Street Titans Are Not Being Prosecuted. The Justice Department's decision not to
prosecute Goldman Sachs in a financial-fraud probe is another sign of the cronyism that has kept Attorney General Eric
Holder from taking action against other big Wall Street firms, says Peter Schweizer.
Quayle on Fast and Furious
report: Holder 'lied to my face' during House testimony. Arizona Republican Rep. Ben Quayle told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric
Holder gave him false testimony under oath about Operation Fast and Furious wiretap application documents during a June 7 House Judiciary Committee
hearing. Quayle said the Department of Justice's inspector general report proves that Holder lied to him while under oath during the hearing.
Parents of slain border agent slam DOJ
report. The parents of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent killed with a gun sold in the government's botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning
investigation aren't happy with a Justice Department Inspector General's report. Agent Brian Terry's father calls the report a cover-up to
keep Attorney General Eric Holder from being blamed.
Fast And Furious Whitewash:
Holder Exonerated. The report our attorney general used to justify withholding evidence of who was responsible for the administration
program that led to the deaths of two U.S. agents is out. It delivers more scapegoats than answers.
Obama
slammed on Fast and Furious in Spanish-language TV interview. Interviewers on the Spanish-language television network Univision grilled
President Barack Obama about the Operation Fast and Furious scandal plaguing his administration in an interview Thursday [9/20/2012]. [...] "I think that
up to 100 Mexicans might have died and also American agent Brian Terry. There's a report that 14 agents were responsible for the operation
but shouldn't the attorney general, Eric Holder, he should have known about that and if he didn't, should you fire him?" Obama responded with
similar talking points his administration has used time and again.
Obama: Holder 'has my
complete confidence'. President Obama said today an inspector general's report exonerated Attorney General Eric Holder of involvement in
the "Fast and Furious" fiasco[.] "I will tell you that Eric Holder has my complete confidence because he has shown himself to be willing to hold
accountable those who took these actions," Obama said during an Hispanic issues forum in Coral Gables, Fla.
Resignation calls
fly at Justice Dept. spokeswoman over Media Matters collaboration. Several targets of a collaborative relationship between Justice
Department Office of Public Affairs director Tracy Schmaler and the liberal message group Media Matters for America told The Daily Caller that
Schmaler's conduct is grounds for her resignation, or for the termination of her employment. And members of Congress have told TheDC that
Media Matters' enviable tax-exempt status may be in jeopardy as a result of that collusion.
Holder's
not in the 'Furious' clear. Even if we put the best possible face on the Inspector General's report about the "Fast and Furious" gunwalking
scandal — and assume that embattled Attorney General Eric Holder knew nothing, nothing about a cockamamie operation that funneled
thousands of American guns to murderous Mexican drug cartels until very late in the game — we're still left with one stunning conclusion:
Why [...] not? He certainly should have known, and it's still possible that he did.
DoJ Civil Rights Division
chief can't commit to protecting free speech. Via Eliana Johnson and Michael Totten, the question that Rep. Trent Franks asked Assistant
Attorney General Thomas Perez in July shouldn't be very difficult to answer — especially for the man who heads up the Civil Rights Division of the
Department of Justice, and who swore to uphold the Constitution when taking that job. [...] If you read the First Amendment, the answer is simple.
Perez, however, does a two-minute dodge while Franks asks it four times.
Congressional
Black Caucus Honors Eric Holder. Attorney General Eric Holder was awarded the Congressional Black Caucus's Chair Award last Saturday [9/22/2012 ?]
at the Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, DC. In her keynote speech for the event, First Lady Michelle Obama gushed over Mr. Holder's
"outstanding contributions to our nation."
Ryan: Holder Must Go.
Vice President nominee Paul Ryan said today [9/30/2012] he agrees with GOP President nominee Mitt Romney: Attorney General Eric Holder should
resign. "The congressman agrees with the governor," said Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck. [...] Representative Ryan is the 131st GOP member
to call for Mr. Holder's resignation.
As
a college student, Eric Holder participated in 'armed' takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office. As a freshman at Columbia
University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps
(ROTC) headquarters with a group of black students later described by the university's Black Students' Organization as "armed," The Daily Caller has
learned. Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has not responded to questions from The Daily Caller about whether Holder himself was
armed — and if so, with what sort of weapon.
October surprise: Eric Holder does his job — for a change.
Justice
department charges 91 doctors, nurses, and medical professionals in $430M Medicare fraud. Ninety-one people including doctors,
nurses, and other medical professionals have been charged with committing $430 million in Medicare fraud in seven U.S. cities, Attorney
General Eric Holder said on Thursday [10/4/2012]. An investigation coordinated by the U.S. Justice Department and the Department of
Health and Human Services uprooted alleged false billing schemes involving $230 million in home health services, over $100 million in
mental health services, and $49 million from ambulance transportation.
The Editor says...
As the election gets closer, watch for more stories like this. Right before the presidential election, the federal government suddenly gets
more efficient -- heroically taking a bite out of crime, possibly finding a cure for cancer, or protecting us all from some sort of attack.
Cabinet a roster of far
leftists. Attorney General Eric Holder, as a Columbia University student and leader of the Student Afro-American Society (SAS),
participated in the armed takeover of a vacant campus ROTC office. The takeover lasted five days in the spring of 1970. [...] That same
semester, Holder's Afro-American student group also declared its "full support of the Black Panther Party as a vanguard organization for the
liberation" of black people, the Columbia paper reported on March 12, 1970. Suddenly, Holder's "Black Panther blind spot," as the
Washington Times called the attorney general's failures to prosecute black radicals, is no longer a mystery. Holder sympathized with
the Panthers then; he seems to sympathize with them now.
Obama, Sex Toy Sellers, and
Fake Military Voting Rights. Few organizations are as skilled at spending billions of dollars while accomplishing little as the
federal government is. The Obama administration's failure to protect military voters demonstrates this — across America, ballots
have failed to mail on time to overseas service members. It is a mistake that keeps repeating every two years, and Americans should demand
it never happens again. [...] Sadly, multiple states failed to send military ballots by the September 22 deadline established by federal law.
In the subsequent 26 days, his Justice Department filed precisely one lawsuit against offending states and counties to protect military voters.
Professor Warren's Mystery Contract. Massachusetts
Democratic senate candidate Elizabeth Warren garnered a lucrative no-bid contract with the Clinton administration's Department of Justice
(DOJ) one year after advising then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. The Department paid Warren, a Harvard professor, $90,000 for serving
as an expert witness over a five month period in 1999 and 2000, documents show. That is an "oddly" large sum given the short time
frame and the hourly pay rate DOJ pays witnesses, according to University of Minnesota law professor Richard Painter.
Obama Keeps Holder As Attorney General.
President Obama is holding on to Eric Holder as the nation's top law-enforcement official, The [New York] Post has learned. The
newly re-elected president asked his controversial attorney general to stay for the second term, and Holder has agreed despite enduring a
firestorm of criticism from Republican lawmakers. "I don't know if everyone in the White House wants him [Holder] to stay, but the
important guy does, and that's all that matters," said one person briefed on the matter.
Undermining
faith in law enforcement and national security: the legacy of Eric Holder. [Scroll down] Marc Rich is the crooked
financier charged with tax evasion, whose wife had contributed huge sums to the Clinton campaign and library. He fled the country
to avoid prosecution, but received a pardon from President Clinton on Holder's recommendation.
U.S. Should Consider Automatic Voter
Registration: Holder. The U.S. should consider automatically registering eligible voters and extending voting hours to counter the November
election's long lines and administrative hurdles, Attorney General Eric Holder said. Holder, speaking today at the John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library in Boston, proposed expanding access for voters and overhauling a registration system he called "antiquated."
Mandatory Voting: Is This The
Obama Administration's Goal? [Scroll down] Remember this as the Obama administration mounts a drive to federalize voter registration, a step toward
making voting mandatory. Attorney General Eric Holder considers it self-evidently alarming that 60 million adult citizens were not registered in 2008.
He wants Washington to register everyone automatically.
Portrait of the Attorney
General as a young militant. According to the Daily Caller, Holder was among the leaders of the Student Afro-American Society (SAAS), which
demanded that the former ROTC office be renamed the "Malcolm X Lounge." The change, the group insisted, was to be made "in honor of a man who
recognized the importance of territory as a basis for nationhood." This statement shows the separatist nature of the group Holder helped lead.
And, indeed, Stefan Bradley, professor of African-American studies at Saint Louis University and author of the 2009 book "Harlem vs. Columbia University,"
has described the Columbia organization as separatist.
Justice Department Killed Plans For
Comprehensive Background Checks. Those who believe that Barack Obama is an idealist first and a politician second are sorely mistaken. The
Justice Department of the Obama administration decided one year ago, as his reelection effort was getting underway, to ignore proposals that would have allowed
the background-check system for gun procurement to be more comprehensive.
Why'd it take 4 massacres for Obama to
vow 'These tragedies must end'? And while we're talking shootings, if the president is so concerned about gun violence, why hasn't he cleaned house
in the Justice Department? Eric Holder et al oversaw the federally-sponsored Fast and Furious gun-running operations that saw hundreds of U.S. weapons
sold to drug dealers and dozens of civilians killed in Mexico plus a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry[.] Holder claims he was unaware of it.
Seriously? OK, such lethal ignorance would seem to warrant dismissal if Obama has been genuinely concerned over firearm violence all along.
This Is Awkward. In the America as defined by American media, you know more about
Sarah Palin's uterus than you do the Attorney General's criminal background.
House Dems call for dismissal of contempt lawsuit
against Holder over Fast and Furious. The ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform filed an amicus brief Wednesday [12/19/2012]
asking for dismissal of the contempt lawsuit brought by House Republicans against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning
investigation.
Holder's family papers over his ties
to abortion doctor. Eric Holder Jr.'s family is moving fast and furiously to bury the U.S. Attorney General's ties to one of Georgia's
most notorious abortion doctors. Just cleared by an internal report in the "Fast and Furious" gunrunning debacle, the nation's top lawman now
faces allegations that his connection to Dr. Tyrone Cecil Malloy is a conflict of interest that helps explain Holder's failure to prosecute abortion
providers who run afoul of federal law.
Special provisions
allow 'Fast and Furious' gunrunning lawsuit to continue. Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman
of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, praised on Friday [12/28/2012] the inclusion of special provisions in the
proposed 113th Congress rules package that will keep in place legal obligations on Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
and others at the Justice Department as a result of "Fast and Furious" subpoenas issued in the 112th Congress.
Obama's Lawless Presidency. Obama has also engaged
in a strong campaign to misuse the Department of Justice for political purposes. His emplacement of Eric Holder as Attorney General was only
the first move to turn the DoJ into a weapon against Americans he doesn't like. Writer and former DoJ lawyer J. Christian Adams has
chronicled the extensive damage Holder's DoJ has done to the country with his and Obama's politicization of the department. In fact, the
DoJ has been so ideologically pro-active that this month the federal government has been told to reimburse the state of South Carolina for court
costs the DoJ unnecessarily caused as it illicitly attacked the state over its voter ID laws.
Attorney General Holder back
at the table for Obama's gun-control push. Attorney General Eric Holder will be the nation's top law enforcement official as the
administration tackles new restrictions on guns in a major initiative of President Obama's second term. The administration announced
Wednesday [1/9/2013] that Holder, a longtime foe of the National Rifle Association (NRA), would remain with Obama for a second term.
Obama Will Keep His "Heat Shield". Eric
Holder may be the least popular member of the Obama cabinet. He is at the center of many of the Administration's ugliest fights
with left and right, over everything from drones to race. He has a special way of looking pained in nearly every photograph.
DOJ
Hopes to Stall Lawsuit Seeking Access to Fast and Furious Records. The Obama administration is pushing gun control in the
wake of the Sandy Hook, Connecticut, shootings. President Obama is using the murders as a pretext to undermine the Second Amendment
and collect data on lawful gun owners. But this administration won't come clean on its own gunrunning operation, Operation Fast and
Furious, which led to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and countless Mexican citizens.
Holder begins gun-control push.
Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday [1/25/2013] released three proposals to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
(NICS), which was one of the 23 actions ordered by Obama last week to tackle gun violence.
Radicalism in the Department of Justice.
Who is running the Justice Department? It certainly appears evident, as President Obama enters his second term, that leftist radicals have a seat at the
table inside Justice and are making both policy and personnel decisions.
Emails
Expose Collusion at Highest Levels between Department of Justice and Communist SPLC. The communists over at the Southern
Poverty Law Center are among the gravest threats to freedom in the United States, and are named as such in the AFDI Threats to Freedom
Index. The enemedia eagerly laps up and repeats their designation of pro-freedom groups as "hate groups," and uses this designation
as a propaganda tool to demonize and discredit us. But here is an excellent expose that shows what these subversives are really all
about.
Yes, he is a
tyrant, just like the Founders warned us against. This is the same Obama government that ran 2,500 firearms to Mexican
cocaine cartels in Operation Fast and Furious, perhaps in order to carry out his promise to Sarah Brady to push for gun control, "under
the radar" and above the law. Obama's Attorney General is in criminal contempt of Congress. The U.S Attorney for
Washington DC, an Obama loyalist, refuses to duty his duty and file charges.
The Democratic Disgrace. [Scroll down] A decade later, the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee held Attorney General Holder in contempt for his cover-up of the Fast and Furious gun-running operation that led to hundreds
of deaths. That made Holder the first sitting cabinet member to be held in criminal contempt of Congress and in another administration that might have led to his
dismissal. During the Bush Administration, cabinet members had resigned for much less, but the Democrats had given up even maintaining the pretense of being a
law-abiding party.
Holder
Flack, DOJ Spokeswoman Resigns from DOJ. Tracy Schmaler, Attorney General Eric Holder's top press defender,
will resign her position on March 8. [...] People who were targets of the collusion between Department of Justice press
aide Schmaler and far leftwing advocacy organizations called for her resignation in September 2012, when evidence of her
activity emerged. Now, they are getting their wish. Emails uncovered last year show Schmaler worked with Media
Matters to smear people trying to uncover details about Justice Department scandals.
High-flying
Holder: Report shows AG, FBI director used luxury jets for personal travel. Two high-tech luxury jets that
the FBI convinced Congress were needed for the fight against global terrorism have instead been used to ferry around
Attorney General Eric Holder and his predecessors, as well as FBI Director Robert Mueller, according to a government
report released Thursday [2/28/2013]. Those officials — which included Holder and Mueller, as well as
former Attorneys General Michael Mukasey and Alberto Gonzales — racked up nearly 700 "nonmission" trips between
2007 and 2011, at a cost of $11.4 million, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Eric
Holder: I have no respect for lawmakers who held me in contempt. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted to something that
the congressional investigators probing Operation Fast and Furious must have already understood: he has no respect for the
legislators who voted to hold him in contempt for refusing to hand over documents about the gun-walking scandal. I have to
tell you that for me to really be affected by what happened, I'd have to have respect for the people who voted in that way," Holder
told ABC News when asked about the historic contempt vote. "And I didn't, so it didn't have that huge an impact on me."
Attorney General Eric
Holder is Criminally Dangerous. With the news today [3/5/2013] that Eric Holder has told Kentucky's U.S. Sen. Rand Paul
that President Obama "has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without
trial," it is now apparent that this man is criminally out of control, and a menace to society. This chilling, outrageous,
tyrannical assertion of power comes on top of a stunning assertion that he himself is entirely above the law giving Congress the
power to oversee federal agencies and to enforce said power — which derives directly from the Constitution —
via the ability to hold scofflaws officially in contempt.
Holder, drones, and due
process. In his latest misstep, Attorney General Eric Holder is refusing to rule out the possibility of using armed drones
against American citizens within the United States. [...] Holder may have the right idea, but because of his misunderstanding of the law
and his political tin ear, he is only frightening the American people — though this seems to be the administration's preferred
approach to politics these days.
IG
Report Shows Viper's Den at Justice Department. While the IG labored mightily to credit almost every excuse offered by
Obamite political appointees (and their ideological soul-mates in the career ranks) at Justice, the raw facts unearthed (or confirmed)
in the new report make crystal clear the most important aspect of the Black Panther case all along: The dismissal of already-won
charges against the Panthers was part and parcel of a long-running hostility within the Civil Rights Division — exacerbated
and encouraged by the Obama political team — against race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws.
Obama
court appointee likely to decide contempt battle between Issa, Holder. A fight over President Obama's use of executive
privilege on the documents that led to Attorney General Eric Holder's contempt charges is increasingly likely to be decided in court.
The way the court decides could drastically limit congressional subpoena powers — or curb the extent to which the president
can claim executive privilege.
DOJ Spent $100 Million On Conferences In One Year.
Before the sequester took effect Attorney General Eric Holder went out and warned the American people that our safety would be at risk if the budget for the Department
of Justice was cut. What he didn't tell us is how much money the department wastes every year. Despite having four empty federal prisons, they bought another
prison in Illinois for $165 million that's now sitting empty and costing $6 million a year to maintain. They also spend $1.5 million a year to work
with Hollywood. And in 2010 alone, they spent $100 million on conferences, according to Rep. Bob Goodlatte.
It's
Time to Push for Impeachment Proceedings Against Eric Holder. Eric Holder doesn't have a right to break the law;
his job is to ensure the rights of the people, not to strip them away. Holder, who is appointed to magnify the law against
crime, has instead repeatedly magnified crime against the law. [...] Eric Holder has directed the DOJ not to enforce the federal
Defense of Marriage Act. In doing so, Holder has violated his oath of office and clearly shows his violation of the laws of
Nature and Nature's God.
Holder gets stormy reception
from House panel. The fact there is no love lost between Attorney General Eric Holder and House Republicans was on clear display
again Thursday afternoon [4/18/2013] at a stormy House appropriations panel hearing which culminated with the subcommittee's chairman declaring
he'd given up on Holder and his stewardship of the Justice Department.
Eric
Holder: Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants Is A 'Matter Of Civil And Human Rights'. During an April 24 address to the
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Attorney General Eric Holder told the crowd that "creating a pathway to
earned citizenship" is a critical element of any comprehensive immigration reform plan. He said that establishing legal status for
the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants is a "matter of civil and human rights."
The Editor says...
Does it work the other way? Can I get Mexican citizenship just by being in Mexico? Is citizenship (in the foreign country
of your choice) a right?
Eric Holder's Reckless Charge.
During a speech to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Attorney General Eric Holder said that creating a "pathway to earned citizenship" was
a "civil right." [...] Attorney General Holder's claim is more than simply silly; it is also pernicious.
Obama Taqiyya. This week, we have witnessed the remarkable spectacle
of HHS Secretary Janet Napolitano asserting before that same body that the administration, sworn to uphold the laws duly passed by that august body, has the
right to pick and choose which to enforce, and then Eric Holder telling a Latino group that illegal aliens have a civil right to US citizenship. Until
recently, it had been thought that actual citizens had an actual right to expect that the executive branch would enforce the laws that their elected
representatives passed on their behalf [...]
Holder Warns: Don't
Discrimminate [sic] Against Muslims After Boston. Apparently, granny will still be getting the full pat down experience at the airport instead of
young Muslim men returning home from volatile, Jihad ridden regions of the world like Dagestan. Attorney General Eric Holder is warning Americans not to
discriminate against Muslims in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Holder warns against Boston bombing
backlash. Attorney General Eric Holder declared Monday that the Justice Department is on the lookout for acts of violence or discrimination that
signal a backlash to the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this month in which three people were killed and scores wounded.
Justice Department
hiring request fuels bias complaints; 44 civil rights lawyers sought. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s 2014 fiscal
budget says the bulk of the attorneys being sought by the Justice Department are earmarked to help meet the "nation's civil rights
challenges," to support the "department's vigorous enforcement of federal civil rights laws" and to expand criminal enforcement efforts
against "police misconduct." But several senior Republicans said the Civil Rights Division historically has hired lawyers based
on their political views and not their legal experience, [...]
DOJ Won't Require Warrants for Email, Chat
Seizures. In blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, the Department
of Justice has apparently declared that they do not require warrants for grabbing Americans' emails and Facebook chats. The
ACLU has gotten hold of the documents from the FBI and DOJ that show that a subpoena, which comes from a prosecutor, is all that
is necessary to seize emails and chats.
Race-Hustling Anti-Semite
Running Obama DOJ. [Scroll down] In fact, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney specifically said during a
media briefing early this week that thoughts and prayers go out to the slain teen's family, but "obviously we're not going to wade
into a local law enforcement matter." That was a day before Sharpton directed the feds to take over.
The Bloody Hands of Barack Obama.
Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, conducted a secret gun-running operation that supplied thousands of assault weapons to drug cartels in
Mexico. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and ICE Agent Jaime Zapata were both murdered with Fast and Furious guns. Their families
have filed wrongful death lawsuits against the federal government.
Priebus demands Holder
resign over AP probe. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder must resign after his agency collected two months of telephone
records from reporters at the Associated Press, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Tuesday [5/14/2013].
"Freedom of the press is an essential right in a free society. The First Amendment doesn't request the federal government to
respect it; it demands it," Priebus wrote in a statement Tuesday.
Eric
Holder Recuses Himself From Leak Investigation. Attorney General Eric Holder has recused himself from the Associated Press
leak investigation. He will officially announce his recusal at a press conference Tuesday afternoon [5/14/2013]. Fox News is
reporting his recusal comes partially because Holder has testified about potential national security leaks surrounding a May 7, 2012
Associated Press story.
Eric Holder is playing dumb.
Holder
Doesn't Know If Anyone Ever Prosecuted Under Born Alive Infant Protection Act. Attorney General Eric Holder said
Wednesday [5/15/2013] he did not know whether there has been even one prosecution under the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
"Have you ever enforced this law even one time?" Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) asked Holder during a House Judiciary Committee hearing
after referencing abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted of three counts of first degree counts murder in the deaths of three
babies whose spinal cords were severed after they were born alive. "I don't know," Holder replied.
GOP'er
Louie Gohmert Trashes Eric Holder For Ignoring Islamic Radicals While Targeting Christians. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) tore
into Attorney General Eric Holder during Wednesday's congressional hearings in relation to what the Department of Justice knew about
Boston Marathon bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Gohmert insisted that the Justice Department has refused to investigate Islamic radicals
in the United States while targeting Christian groups for undue scrutiny.
Obamagate: The Focus Is Barack Obama.
In Part One of this series, published on Monday [5/13/2013], I used the word "Watergate" seven times, openly comparing the scandalous
Obama administration to the scandalous Nixon administration. I didn't know the half of it. Just hours after Part One ran,
we all learned the disturbing news of the rogue Justice Department wiretaps on the Associated Press. Now, even the liberals in
the MSM are in an uproar, and the chief target is Attorney General Eric Holder.
Why
Barack Obama's imperial presidency is imploding. Yesterday [5/15/2013] Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder testified
before the House Judiciary Committee on a host of issues including the Benghazi debacle, in what can only be described as a train
wreck of a performance. Holder was simply unable or unwilling to answer most key questions, and demonstrated a level of
contempt for elected officials in Congress that was breathtaking. It was yet another public relations disaster for the Obama
team. In addition the administration has come under heavy fire over the Justice Department's monitoring of phone records
belonging to Associated Press journalists.
Exclusive:
Holder Says 'No' to Special Counsel to Investigate Benghazi. Breitbart News has obtained an exclusive video of Attorney
General Eric Holder flatly rejecting the idea of appointing a special counsel to investigate Benghazi.
Holder plays dumb.
Attorney General Eric Holder was in a familiar spot yesterday: testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, dodging and weaving and
otherwise doing his best imitation of Sgt. Schultz from the old TV show "Hogan's Heroes": I know nothing. Scandals at
the IRS? Under investigation, can't comment. Subpoenaed phone records of Associated Press reporters? How should I
know? I recused myself. That's not testifying — that's obfuscating.
Eric
Holder's abdication. As the nation's top law enforcement official, Eric Holder is privy to all kinds of sensitive information.
But he seems to be proud of how little he knows.
Know Nothing. Attorney General Eric Holder used the phrase "I don't
know" or some variation, at least 57 times during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee today as House Republicans grilled
him over controversies including the IRS' targeting of Tea Partiers, the Justice Department's seizure of journalist phone records, and
the security lapses surrounding the Boston bombing.
Holder
Caught Lying — Again. Is there no accountability and punishment? Eric admits that there is nothing in
writing on recusal from the AP case — the only person told was the deputy attorney general.
Obama's crew plays dumb and
dumber. Has President Nixon been replaced by Sergeant Schultz? The "Smartest President Ever" has disappeared. The Barack
Brain Trust long-touted by liberals is gone — replaced by hacks whose rallying cry is straight from Stalag 13 — "I know nothing.
Nothing!" The top law enforcement agency in the land spied on the top news-gathering organization, secretly seizing phone records from their
home and cell phones. They did so without the legally required notice to the Associated Press. And what did Attorney General Eric Holder
say when asked why his Department of Justice would do such a thing?
Terrorists given new identities allowed to board commercial flights, IG report finds.
An investigation of the Justice Department's witness protection program uncovered glaring security problems that allowed terrorists who had been
given new identities after cooperating with U.S. prosecutors to board commercial flights in the United States. In some cases, suspects
whose names were on federal watch lists that were meant to keep them off commercial aircraft were nevertheless able to board flights because
the Justice Department had failed to add their new, government-issued identities to counterterrorism databases.
Deval
as Holder's fill-in? That just wouldn't be just. Just when you think the news surrounding Obamagate cannot get any worse, it does.
Some say U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's days on the job are numbered and that it's just a matter of when he'll be forced to resign. While
I'll not shed a tear over Holder's departure, one of the replacement names being floated has me reaching for tissues: Gov. Deval Patrick.
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