Eric Holder and the politicized Justice Department
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 — starting with
President Obama. 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.
Note: These articles are listed in chronological order, so the newest information is at the bottom of this page.
Tom
Fitton Statement On The Confirmation of Jeff Sessions as United States Attorney General. "When it comes to
public policy, the Justice Department has been a locus of evil. President Obama ruined the Justice Department.
Senator Sessions, now the Attorney General has to build it from the ground up, practically speaking. On every public
policy issue conservatives care about, the Justice Department has been on the other side and usually against the rule of law
and helping corrupt politicians try get away with it. So Senator Sessions really has to reorient the Justice Department
to actually advance the interest of the American people and the rule of law, as opposed to subverting it. [...]"
[Video clip]
House Judiciary
investigating whether Holder lied under oath. The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied
under oath during his May 15 testimony on the Justice Department's (DOJ) surveillance of reporters. The panel is looking at a statement
Holder made during a back-and-forth with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) about whether the DOJ could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act of 1917, an
aide close to the matter told The Hill.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ted Stevens recap: Same
Plot, Different Actors. [Scroll down] In the Stevens case, the government
suborned perjury, hid a critical witness for the defense, and suffered no consequences of note for
that. With Stevens out of the Senate, the Democrats rammed through ObamaCare before the
serious misconduct of the FBI and DoJ attorneys was known, too late to provide solace to Stevens,
who died in a plane crash before the truth was revealed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Justice Department Disputes Fast and
Furious Contempt Charge. House Republicans are inching closer to issuing a contempt citation against disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder for
scandals surrounding the Obama administration's deadly weapons-trafficking operation "Fast and Furious." But in recent days, the Department of Justice
implausibly insisted that it cooperated with the congressional investigation. Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and other Representatives,
however, disagree, saying the executive branch has been engaged in a cover-up from the start.
Dick Morris: White House will
spin Holder contempt proceedings as racism for political gain. While Attorney General Eric Holder is on the verge of facing a contempt citation in Congress
for allegedly not complying with a congressional subpoena over Operation Fast and Furious, in the long run the situation could be a political positive for President Barack
Obama's reelection effort, according to former Clinton adviser and Fox News analyst Dick Morris.
The Chicago Way: Justice for sale at Holder's DOJ.
In an explosive Newsweek article set to rock official Washington, reporter Peter Boyer and Breitbart contributing editor and Government Accountability
Institute President Peter Schweizer reveal how Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice are operating under a "justice for sale" strategy by
forgoing criminal prosecution of Wall Street executives at big financial institutions who just so happen to be clients of the white-shoe law firms where Holder
and his top DOJ lieutenants worked.
The Left's National Vote Fraud Strategy Exposed.
[Scroll down] The National Voter Registration Act was crafted specifically to bring calculated chaos to our elections, open the door to vote fraud and
force states to become de facto voter registration drives heavily favorable to one political party. Similarly, Attorney General Eric Holder and
his allies have abused the Voting Rights Act, turning preclearance into a political weapon to sabotage voter integrity efforts. The results are a voting
system vulnerable to systemic fraud. Our most fundamental right as Americans, to determine the size, scope and indeed the very nature of our nation, is
being threatened. This must not stand.
One vote closer to impeachment. Democrat breaks ranks, supports
Issa's push to enforce Fast and Furious subpoena. Indiana Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly told The Daily Caller on Tuesday [5/8/2012] that he
supports the House oversight committee's efforts to enforce the congressional subpoena of Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious.
"One of the duties of Congress is to provide oversight of the Executive Branch," Donnelly told TheDC. "There has been a serious allegation of federal
law enforcement misconduct and we need to get to the bottom of this issue without playing partisan politics."
House to Eric Holder: Stop lying to
us. The House Wednesday evening [5/9/2012] voted overwhelmingly to prevent the Justice Department from using
taxpayer funds to lie to Congress. The vote came in a Wednesday evening series of amendments to a bill, H.R. 5326,
funding the Justice Department for 2013. Members approved the language in a 381-41 vote; all 41 "no" votes
came from Democrats, although 142 Democrats voted with Republicans in support of the amendment. The vote reflects
the ongoing frustration Republicans — and apparently some Democrats — have with Attorney General
Eric Holder.
Gowdy:
Obama will fire Holder if Fast and Furious threatens his re-election. South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, one of
the most outspoken Congressional critics of the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, said Thursday [5/10/2012] that he thinks President
Barack Obama may end up firing Attorney General Eric Holder before the election. [...] "I think that if he [Obama] believes that the
Attorney General has become something of an albatross, and is impacting his ability to carry some swing states, Eric Holder will be
in the private practice of law quicker than you say Marc Rich," Gowdy said.
How
Convenient: Potentially 180,000 Non-Citizens Capable of Voting in Swing States. Welcome to the year 2012 where the Obama Justice Department,
headed by Attorney General Eric Holder, refuses to admit voter fraud is a real threat to our democratic process while they sue state after state for
voter i.d. laws. "There is no proof that our elections are marred by in person voter fraud," Attorney General Eric Holder. "Solutions that
have been proposed go to things that do not exist, go to a problem that does not exist."
Krauthammer on Attorney General Holder:
'Incompetence,' 'a political hack'. Krauthammer said Holder first proved to be a hack when he handled the pardon of Marc Rich during the Clinton
administration, and then referred to two newer examples of the Holder's hackery: The Justice Department's pursuit of overturning a voter ID law in
Texas, and its attack on Arizona's immigration laws.
Boehner pushes Obama to make
Holder comply with Fast and Furious subpoena. [Scroll down] Holder has failed to comply with House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep.
Darrell Issa's Oct. 12, 2011, subpoena of him on Fast and Furious. Holder has thus far failed to comply with all 22 categories of the
subpoena that requires him to provide Congress with documents relating to Fast and Furious. On 13 of the categories, Holder has provided no
documents. On the other nine subpoena categories, Holder is still far from compliant.
GOP freshmen press for contempt vote on
Holder. House conservatives, fearing that Republican leaders may try to avoid an election-year confrontation with the Obama administration, are
insisting that House Speaker John Boehner press ahead with contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Eric Holder over the Fast and Furious
gun-running operation. Five House Republican freshmen wrote to Boehner, R-Ohio, demanding that he schedule a vote on the contempt charges, something
Boehner has so far resisted.
DOJ
pressures university to allow 38-year old man access to women's restrooms. Watch out, you ladies at the University
of Arkansas at Fort Smith: Those feet under the stall next to you might just belong to a 38-year-old man. Despite
opposition from female students, UAFS has decided on "advice of counsel" to allow a 38-year-old anatomically-male, transgendered
student access to the women's bathrooms on campus. According to a report from the conservative Campus Reform, the university
decided to reverse its transgender policy after receiving a letter from the Department of Justice.
Feds to Florida: halt non-citizen
voter purge. The Justice Department ordered Florida's elections division to halt a systematic effort to find and
purge the state's voter rolls of noncitizen voters. Florida's effort appears to violate both the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
which protects minorities, and the 1993 National Voter Registration Act — which governs voter purges —
T. Christian Herren Jr., the Justice Department's lead civil rights lawyer, wrote in a detailed two-page letter sent late
Thursday night [5/31/2012].
Holder's Chutzpah. Attorney
General Eric Holder recently told a group of black clergymen that the right to vote was being threatened by people who are
seeking to block access to the ballot box by blacks and other minorities. This is truly world-class chutzpah, by an
Attorney General who stopped attorneys in his own Department of Justice from completing the prosecution of black thugs who
stationed themselves outside a Philadelphia voting site to harass and intimidate white voters.
Holder to
black leaders: 'Sacred' right to vote under attack. Attorney General Eric Holder told a council of African American
church leaders Wednesday that the "sacred" right to vote is under assault nationwide, with federal lawsuits and at least a dozen
state laws that could hinder — or block — minorities' access to the ballot box this fall.
Holder's Racial Incitement.
The United States of America has a black President whose chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric Holder, is also
black. They have a lot of political power. So how are they using it? Well, one way is to assert to black
audiences that voter ID laws are really attempts to disenfranchise black Americans.
DOJ Not Even
Pretending to be Nonpartisan Anymore. Eric Holder is doing his best to scare black pastors into encouraging their
congregations to vote for Obama using the Voter ID ruse. Our "sacred" right to vote is in danger of being taken away
thanks to evil Voter ID laws and other trumped up charges.
Another
congressman joins Fast and Furious charge against Holder as contempt proceedings loom on horizon. California
Republican Rep. Tom McClintock has joined scores of his House colleagues in pushing for Attorney General Eric Holder to be
held accountable for his role in Operation Fast and Furious. McClintock's signature on Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar's official
House resolution of "no confidence" in Holder over Fast and Furious makes him the 129th House member to demand Holder's
resignation, sign the resolution or both. Presumptive GOP presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney, three U.S. senators and two sitting governors join those members in demanding Holder's removal from the Department
of Justice because of Fast and Furious.
Seventy-Six Trombones
and 8.2% Unemployment. The Attorney General headed off to speak to black ministers ostensibly to advise them
of what conduct on the part of the churches is legal. In actuality he attempted to scare them into concerted action to
get out the vote by suggesting that voter I.D. laws were no more than efforts to deprive blacks of their "sacred right"
to vote. And when Florida started purging its voting rolls of 52,000 deceased voters and 180,000 non-citizens (undoubtedly
aided in election fraud by the ill-considered Voter Motor law), he dashed off a letter to the Florida Secretary of State
Ken Detzner demanding the state stop the clean up.
Who May Vote in Florida?
Time and again, the Holder Justice Department has exhibited politically driven law enforcement. But its latest instance of
lawlessness is absolutely brazen. Last week, the Civil Rights Division's Voting Section sent a letter to the Florida secretary
of state, Ken Detzner, ordering him to stop removing voters who are not citizens from Florida's voter-registration rolls. This
goes far beyond Holder's previous actions, such as belittling claims of voter fraud and trying to stop voter ID and other reform
measures intended to improve the integrity of the election process. This letter would directly abet vote thieves in a key
state as Holder's boss seeks reelection this November.
Former
DOJ Attorney: Eric Holder Could Stop SWATings 'in 48 Hours'. Former Department of Justice attorney J. Christian
Adams took to Twitter in the wake of the SWATing of Red State's Erik Erickson and declared: ["]Eric Holder or an ethical
USAttorney could stop this swatting in 48 hours. Violates 18 USC 241. Online efforts should be
directed at #DOJ.["]
Holder
to black pastors: Civil rights at risk. Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking to black pastors at a Congressional
Black Caucus event designed to get out the vote this election year, warned his audience that the civil rights they enjoy are
under attack.
Holder
to brief black pastors on campaign 2012. Attorney General Eric Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers
at the ACLU will brief several hundred pastors in the African American community on how to participate in the presidential
election — which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help President Obama's campaign.
Holder
ducks questions on who highest-ranking official with Fast and Furious knowledge was. Attorney General Eric Holder again
today would not answer who the highest-ranking Obama administration official was that had knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious and
the gunwalking tactics it employed before Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered. Instead, when House Judiciary Committee
Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith pressed him directly during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday [6/7/2012], Holder dodged giving a
response.
Justice Dept. tries
to cut Fast and Furious deal with Congress. The Department of Justice told Republican House leadership in a Tuesday
[6/5/2012] letter that it hopes to reach an agreement with congressional overseers on how much information about Operation Fast and
Furious it is required to hand over. Congressional Republicans have threatened to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt
of Congress for not fully complying with a 22-part subpoena served last October.
Eric Holder's Pooh-poohing of Voter Fraud
Dangers. Attorney General Eric Holder recently told a group of black clergymen that the right to vote was being
threatened by people who are seeking to block access to the ballot box by blacks and other minorities. This is truly world-class
chutzpah, by an Attorney General who stopped attorneys in his own Department of Justice from completing the prosecution of black thugs
who stationed themselves outside a Philadelphia voting site to harass and intimidate white voters.
Fast and
Furious: House Oversight has a 'mole' in the Justice Department. Attorney General Eric Holder has always maintained
that knowledge of these tactics did not reach the upper echelons of his department. The revelation of documents shredding
Holder's claims stirred some in the Republican leadership to begin taking the idea of filing contempt of Congress charges against
the Attorney General more seriously.
Fast &
Furious amnesia hits Attorney General Eric Holder during House testimony. Attorney General Eric Holder frustrated his
most fierce Capitol Hill accuser and other GOP lawmakers Thursday [6/7/2012] when asked about the Justice Department's Fast and
Furious weapons sting and which high-ranking Obama administration officials knew about the botched operation. Holder
sidestepped questions by GOP Rep. Darrell Issa about whether he or other Justice Department officials had even started to pull
together Fast and Furious documents requested in an October 2011 subpoena Issa sent the agency.
Ahead of Fast
and Furious hearing, Issa tells Holder 'lead or resign'. On Tuesday [6/5/2012], [Congressman Darrell] Issa announced
that his committee had obtained evidence proving that senior Department of Justice officials approved the tactics used in Fast and
Furious. In a letter to Holder, Issa specifically said his committee has "obtained copies of six wiretap applications in
support of seven wire intercepts utilized during Fast and Furious." Those documents, he said, "show that immense detail about
questionable investigative tactics was available to the senior officials who reviewed and authorized them." Issa explained
that the documents prove that Holder and other Justice Department officials in the Obama administration provided false statements
to Congress.
Fast and
Furious: Eric Holder's bizarre House Judiciary testimony. The Attorney General still maintains he and his top
deputies didn't know anything, can't remember anything, and have no intention of complying with lawful subpoenas from Congress.
Holder acknowledges that he's only turned over 7,600 of the 140,000 Fast and Furious documents he's sitting on, and that's about
as good as it's going to get. This did not sit well with the clearly exasperated Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who is chairman
of the House Oversight Committee, and the lead House investigator into Operatin Fast and Furious.
Fast and Furious stonewall is
working. Yesterday [6/7/2012], AG Eric Holder evaded questions and continued his stonewall on the House Judiciary
Committee subpoena for thousands of documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal, which has claimed the lives of two sworn
federal agents and hundreds of Mexicans. If he were a Republican AG, the news would dominate all media, with ABCNBCCBSCNNNYT all
demanding to know what did the AG know, and when did he know it? But because he is the first black Attorney General, and a
Democrat, there is barely a peep beyond Fox News and the conservative media.
Holder
admits Axelrod, White House helped Justice Dept craft Fast and Furious public relations strategy. Attorney General
Eric Holder admitted on Thursday [6/7/2012] that President Barack Obama's chief campaign strategist David Axelrod and the White
House are helping the Department of Justice craft its messaging about Operation Fast and Furious. "We [Holder, Axelrod and
the White House] have certainly talked about ways in which we could deal with the interaction between the Justice Department
and Congress — about ways in which we would," Holder said in questioning before the House Judiciary Committee.
Whose side is Eric Holder on?
We should've known the country would be in for a rough ride with Holder at the helm of the Justice Department. Even before he
was attorney general, he argued in front of the Supreme Court that one of our most cherished rights — the right to keep and
bear arms granted in the Second Amendment — did not apply to individual Americans, only to organized militias. Tragically,
his trepidation over possessing firearms seems to stop at the border, as his Justice Department signed off on arming drug cartels as
part of the botched Fast and Furious scheme. Holder contorted the Second Amendment to fit with his political views on gun
possession, while turning a blind eye to the dangers of arming foreign criminals.
Eric
Holder unaware that court visitors must show ID. Due to a recent work assignment, I had the opportunity to enter a federal
courthouse about 200 times in the past six weeks or so. Each and every time, I was asked for a photo ID, which the
court security officer looked at and then allowed me to put away in my wallet. This procedure, which takes place tens of thousands
if not hundreds of thousands of times each day in federal courthouses across the country, is apparently entirely unknown to the nation's
top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric Holder.
House committee schedules
contempt vote against Holder. CBS News has learned the House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General
Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It's the fourth time in 30 years that Congress has launched a contempt action against an executive
branch member. This time, the dispute stems from Holder failing to turn over documents subpoenaed on October 12, 2011 in the Fast and
Furious "gunwalking" investigation.
Contempt
Vote Against Holder Scheduled For Next Week. Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News reports the House Oversight Committee will vote on contempt
charges against Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday, June 20. Mr. Holder and the Department of Justice have not turned over the
remaining documents from an October 11, 2011 subpoena concerning Operation Fast & Furious.
House oversight committee schedules
contempt vote for Holder. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has scheduled a vote for next week to consider holding Attorney
General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over the controversial Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
How much longer can Obama and Holder protect
each other? If this were just the first such instance of a failure in President Obama's campaign promise to 'have the most transparent
administration in history,' perhaps negative sentiments, particularly bi-partisan, would not run so deep. But, it is just the next, in a long line
of many political scandals that have plagued the Obama Administration almost from day one, including Solyndra Solar and Operation Fast and Furious, both of
which appear to suffer from "stonewalling" by the government agencies involved.
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."
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.
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 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.
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.
DOJ
on 'Gays': 'Silence Will be Interpreted as Disapproval'. [Scroll down] The document is chilling. It's riddled
with directives that grossly violate — prima facie — employees' First Amendment liberties. Following are
excerpts from the "DOJ Pride" decree. When it comes to "LGBT" employees, managers are instructed: "DON'T judge or remain
silent. Silence will be interpreted as disapproval."
Holder
walks fine line on prosecuting journalists. Attorney General Eric Holder's rejection last week of the idea of prosecuting
journalists for publishing classified information sounded categorical and absolute. But was it? Under questioning by Rep.
Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), Holder dismissed the notion of prosecuting reporters as, basically, nuts.
The Obama enemies list.
[Scroll down] Mr. Holder has been held in criminal contempt of Congress for his role in the Fast and Furious scandal, but he
continues with business as usual. Those who abuse the power and authority of the government deserve more than a light tap on
the wrist and a generous lifetime pension. If Mr. Obama won't live up to his promise to protect whistleblowers, Congress must
strengthen the law to impose real penalties.
Obama '07: AG's Job Is to Tell
WH 'Here are the Limits of Your Power'. In 2007, then Senator Barack Obama appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and called on
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign. Obama said Gonzales was acting more like the president's attorney than the
people's attorney and viewed himself as an "enabler of the administration."
Obama
Executive Orders on Guns Would Spark Mass Resistance. The Constitution, of course, reserves all legislative powers to Congress — not to
mention the specific prohibition against infringements on gun rights contained in the Second Amendment. But disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder,
who is helping develop the "executive action" plot, was caught in the 1990s on video calling for a tax-funded campaign to "brainwash" people against guns.
He was also held in criminal contempt of Congress for lying about Operation Fast and Furious, which saw the Justice Department providing thousands of powerful
guns to Mexican drug cartels through the ATF.
Bombshell: Eric Holder Lied to
Congress Under Oath. During friendly questioning from Rep. Hank "I fear that Guam will capsize!" Johnson in Congress
last week, Attorney General Eric Holder offered the following statement. ["]In regard to potential prosecution of the press for
the disclosure of material. This is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise
policy.["] He made that statement before the facts about the sweep on Fox News' James Rosen were known. Since then, it's
come to light that Holder himself approved the subpoena that, among other things, named Rosen as a criminal co-conspirator.
So, Eric Holder lied under oath before a congressional hearing.
[Emphasis in original.]
Holder must go. Attorney General Eric Holder
signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a "possible co-conspirator" in violations of the Espionage
Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday [5/23/2013].
Obama Orders Eric
Holder To Investigate Himself. The president worries about the "chilling effect" of leak investigations as his attorney
general signs the warrant labeling a Fox News reporter as a violator of the Espionage Act. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Eric Holder Lied Under Oath In Front Of
Congress. The people in the Obama Administration have gotten a free ride for so long that they apparently believe they can get away with
anything. That may be the only thing that explains Eric Holder doing something as stupid as this.
Eric
Holder was aware that Fox News reporter was to be snooped on. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder approved the decision to seize phone
records and personal emails of FOX News reporter James Rosen, the Justice Department disclosed late Friday [5/24/2013]. The journalist's
messages were obtained after investigators checked with 'the highest levels of the department, including discussions with the Attorney General,'
the department said in a statement.
Senators say Holder can't 'review'
himself on news media snooping. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s direct involvement in the Justice Department's decisions to
spy on the press should disqualify him from heading any review of the unfolding controversy, Republicans said Sunday. Questions have been raised
about the attorney general's role in two Justice Department investigations of leaks, one involving a massive seizure of Associated Press phone records
and another an aggressive probe of Fox News reporter James Rosen's private emails.
Holder Perjury: Two Judges Refused Before Holder Got Fox
Warrant. This isn't going to go down well for Eric Holder and the administration. Last night [5/23/2013] NBC News reported that it was
AG Holder who personally approved the decision to go after Fox News' James Rosen. Today the Department of Justice told Reuters the NBC report is
correct, possibly setting up the Attorney General to be indited for perjury.
[Eric] Holder either lied to Congress, lied to the judge, or doesn't read what he signs. Fake flowers and the
pretend White House press corps. Here is what Attorney General Eric Holder testified to when, while under oath, he was asked about
the Department of Justice's investigations of journalists and national security leaks: "In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the
disclosure of material: This is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy."
Attorney General
Eric Holder Reportedly Felt 'Personal Remorse' Over Fox News Subpoena. After reading the [Washington] Post front-page story on
the Rosen leak probe, in addition to the ongoing AP snooping story, Holder's aides claim the AG began to feel a "creeping sense of personal remorse."
Despite having personally signed off on the search of Rosen's private information, "the gravity of the situation didn't fully sink in" for Holder until he
saw the newspaper report based on the affidavit for the search warrant that helped the feds obtain Rosen's private data.
Fire Eric Holder. In the greatest attack
on the free press in decades, the Justice Department seized phone records for reporters and editors in at least three AP offices as well as its office
in the House of Representatives. Holder, however, proceeded to claim absolute and blissful ignorance of the investigation, even failing to recall
when or how he recused himself. Yet, this was only the latest attack on the news media under Holder's leadership.
'I hate my policies'.
Attorney General Eric Holder says (or had his flunkies say) he only understood the severity of his own actions against Fox News reporter James
Rosen when he was sitting at his breakfast table reading The Washington Post on a Monday morning. Yes, that's what he told the Daily Beast,
which did him the inestimable favor of not crumpling to the ground in hysterical peals of laughter. For one thing, the story about the
Rosen subpoena was released on the [New York] Post's Web site the day before.
Eric Holder.
Remember him? Or is your memory as bad as his? You may remember "Fast and Furious," that outrageous and, by the way, illegal gun-running
operation by his department that sent weapons to drug cartels in Mexico? Nope, he never heard of it. Oh, well, wait. Those
words do ring a bell. Yes, yes he had heard of it after all. But can't quite remember when he heard of it. Or when he
ordered it stopped. If he did. There's a lot of bad memory going around this Obama administration.
Eric Holder's attempted off-the-record press briefing
... brought to you by the most open and transparent administration in history.
AP Won't Attend
Holder's Off-Record Briefing. The Associated Press is the latest major news outlet to inform President Obama's Department
of Justice that they will not be participating in an off-the-record briefing on how Eric Holder's team deals with journalists who work
with leakers. The announcement came about an hour after the New York Times declined participation as well.
N.Y. Times will not
attend DOJ session, citing opposition to off-the-record provision. New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson has announced
that her paper will not attend an off-the-record session with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the Justice Department's monitoring of
reporters, due to the fact that the meeting is to be conducted "off the record."
NYT Refuses DOJ Invite Thanks to Holder's Off-the-Record
Demand. After reports broke that the Department of Justice would be holding an off-the-record meeting with members of the press to
discuss its policies on monitoring journalists, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson announced that the Gray Lady would not
be attending.
Holder's chutzpah.
So Attorney General Eric Holder invited members of the media — some of whom his Justice Department had expressly targeted for
surveillance under dubious national-security claims — in for sit-down, and almost nobody came. The Associated Press, one
of Holder's targets, said no. The New York Post said no. The New York Times said no. CNN said no. Fox News, another
target, said no. Even the liberal Huffington Post said no, not if it's off the record.
Media Uncomfortable At Holder's
Off-The-Record Offer. The Washington press corps is squirming after being offered a secretive briefing from fork-tongued Attorney General
Eric Holder. What was that about open government and journalistic scrutiny?
Growing boycott of Eric Holder media meetings.
Several news organizations have announced they will not attend this week's off the record meetings with Attorney General Eric Holder unless the sit-downs
are conducted on the record. CNN, Fox News, CBS News, Reuters, NBC News and McClatchy on Thursday joined The Associated Press, The New York Times and
The Huffington Post in refusing to go to one of the Department of Justice's off the record sessions about the department's handling of investigations into
journalists.
Not
Satire: WaPo's Surreal Report on Holder's Off-the-Record Press Freedom Meeting. Sean Higgins thinks this Washington Post
"report" on Eric Holder's widely-boycotted confab with journalists is "beyond parody." [...] Eric Holder pledged to take "concrete steps"
to address the actions of Eric Holder — up to and (possibly) including backing legislative action that would curtail Eric
Holder's ability to abuse Eric Holder's power. What a guy. Direct quotes would be priceless here, but those weren't allowed,
of course. Instead, the DOJ very magnanimously permitted reporters to offer "general" accounts of what was discussed.
Washington
Post: The Justice Department has allowed us to say AG Holder supports press freedom. Holder's condition was that the meeting
be "off the record," meaning none of the reporters would be allowed to report what was said at the meeting. Among those who did
attend was the Washington Post. Today's Post has an account of the meeting — sort of. That is, they have a
story about what the Justice Department allowed them to say about its efforts to protect press freedom. The result is just
beyond parody.
Eric
Holder, giving Justice a bad name. So, Attorney General Eric Holder approved a search warrant targeting Fox News's James Rosen for the
crime of journalism with malice aforethought. Then the Justice Department shopped around for a judge who would keep the surveillance of
professional and private e-mails secret. Then the department fought the public disclosure of the warrant since it wanted the flexibility
to continue the investigation "for many years."
House committee opens
perjury probe of Holder. The House Judiciary Committee opened an investigation Wednesday into whether Attorney General Eric H.
Holder Jr. lied under oath in testimony about the Justice Department's surveillance of journalists, while the White House declared again that
President Obama "absolutely" has confidence in Mr. Holder.
Did Eric Holder Commit
Perjury? It Looks That Way. In his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Eric Holder was asked whether the Justice
Department could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act of 1917. This was his answer: ["]In regard to potential
prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material — this is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or
would think would be wise policy.["] Later, the Department of Justice disclosed that Holder had personally approved the
application for the search warrant for James Rosen's Gmail account.
House
Republicans express "great concern" about possible Holder perjury. Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a
letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday [5/29/2013] expressing "great concern" about the possibility that Holder lied under
oath during his testimony earlier this month on the Justice Department's seizing of journalists' records, CBS News has learned.
More commentary about Eric Holder. President
Obama's human firewall sure seems to be crumbling these days, a victim of his own intransigence as well as his deep, heartfelt and longtime
radicalism — a radicalism that, by definition, renders him unsuitable for any position that requires him to defend the very institution
with which he's been entrusted.
DOJ Tells Employees to
Verbally Affirm Homosexuality. The Department of Justice has been accused of religious intolerance and viewpoint discrimination
after workers were sent an email directing them to verbally affirm homosexuality, according to a law firm specializing in religious liberty and now
representing a DOJ whistleblower. Liberty Counsel said DOJ employees were emailed a brochure called "LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective Managers." The brochure was created as a resource from DOJ Pride, an association of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
employees of the DOJ.
Pentagon
Papers Lawyer James Goodale: It's Time for Eric Holder to Resign. The attorney general's conduct in trying to pass off the James Rosen
subpoena as falling under the Espionage Act proves that he is abusing his office. Pentagon papers lawyer James Goodale has seen this
before — in Richard Nixon.
Deadline set for James Cole to detail
Eric Holder's recusal. Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole has until the end of business Friday [5/31/2013] to tell a House committee
how and when his boss, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., recused himself in the Justice Department's subpoena of two months of telephone records
of at least 20 reporters and editors at The Associated Press. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, and
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican who leads the panel's subcommittee on crime, terrorism, homeland security and investigations,
want to know whether Mr. Holder committed perjury when he told the committee under oath May 15 he knew AP had secretly been targeted but he
was "not familiar with the way the subpoena had been structured."
Ted
Cruz To Megyn Kelly: Eric Holder Should Resign For 'Unprecedented' 'Willingness To Disregard The Law'. Appearing on Fox News' America
Live this afternoon [5/30/2013], Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, and leaders from both parties
for "not respecting the Bill of Rights" through a variety of recent scandals including the snooping on journalism outlets and the purposeful targeting of
conservative groups for additional tax scrutiny.
7 Reasons Why the Media
Shouldn't Keep Eric Holder's Secrets. The basic facts: The Justice Department seized telephone records at the Associated Press
as part of an investigation into the leak of a foiled terrorist plot. The media spying was unprecedented in its scope and in violation of the
department's own guidelines. In a separate leak investigation, the department monitored the e-mails and whereabouts of a Fox News reporter.
In a warrant application, Holder's team labeled the reporter a criminal coconspirator.
Did Eric Holder Also Lie... to a Judge? In his warrant application, Holder claimed to be
interested in investigating James Rosen as a coconspirator in an espionage case. In addition, he claimed Rosen was a "flight risk," which would
justify even closer monitoring (to make sure he wasn't buying plane tickets on Kayak, I suppose). Now he says he never had any intention of
prosecuting Rosen. In other words: He now says he lied when he told the judge these things, in order to secure his license to
snoop on Rosen. Well, which is it?
Stewing
in his own juices. Now House Republicans are talking about perjury, and it would seem that they have, well, probable cause.
As a legal matter, this isn't a worry for Holder. His Justice Department isn't going to prosecute him for perjury, just as it didn't
prosecute him when lawmakers held him in contempt of Congress: L'etat, c'est lui.
Holder Should Resign, but
Obama Is the Problem. A prediction: there will be an effort by Team Obama to rally around Eric Holder, but before too
long he will resign as attorney general. He'll do so because he's doing considerable, even durable, damage to the
president — and the president, well-versed in the Chicago Way, will jettison Holder if he determines it's in
his political interest. It is.
Eric Holder's Long
History Of Lying To Congress. Before he lied to Congress while under oath about what he knew about targeting reporters,
he lied about Fast and Furious. As early as the New Black Panthers case, Eric Holder had a problem with the truth.
Justice
Dept. says Holder didn't lie before congressional committee. Attorney General Eric Holder's sworn testimony before lawmakers
this month was "accurate and consistent with the facts," a Justice Department spokesman stressed late Thursday [5/30/2013].
Holder's statements at the May 15 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee have come under scrutiny from congressional Republicans,
who are looking into whether the attorney general lied under oath earlier this month when he said he wasn't involved in the "potential
prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material."
The Editor says...
The Justice Department spokesman works for Eric Holder, and retains his employment only as long as Mr. Holder is happy with him.
He therefore has no choice but to defend Mr. Holder, and his words are to be discounted.
Issa warns Holder
not to take 'perjury lightly'. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) strongly suggested that Attorney
General Eric Holder perjured himself before a congressional panel investigating the Justice Department's treatment of reporters.
In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Issa warned Holder not to "use perjury lightly" when discussing his approval of a search
warrant for the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen. "It's hard to have confidence in what this attorney general says or what
his people say," Issa said Sunday [6/2/2013].
Journalist Lemmings Dive Off Cliff While AG Holder Spies,
Blusters and Prevaricates. Of all of the accidentally hilarious aspects of the implosion of Obama's War Against
the Bill of Rights, none is more informative than his broadside against journalism and Freedom of the Press. What does it
say about those who take their very sustenance from the 1st Amendment Free Speech clause that many want to extinguish other
people's constitutional liberties at every possible opportunity?
Contentious
Episodes in Holder's Tenure. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has faced criticism for several polarizing decisions made
under the Obama administration.
West Wing Throws Holder
Under the Bus. Liberals and Democrats have been doing their best to stonewall calls for Attorney General Eric Holder's
resignation, but apparently some of those serving in the office of his boss aren't as much in love with him as some of his defenders
elsewhere.
Eric
Holder is not going anywhere. Attorney General Eric Holder is not going anywhere. He will not be fired, go to
jail, be held accountable, or even have his boss make the "shame, shame" index finger motion. Eric Holder is above the law.
The administration implied this for four years, and 2012 was the last opportunity to issue any consequences.
The Smoking Gun in Plain Sight.
[Scroll down] And while demonizing his political enemies, what sort of people did the president appoint to key jobs in his
administration? His attorney general is Eric Holder, a sleazy Democratic operative who not only called the American people
"cowards" for their approach to racial issues — this after the majority of us elected a black president —
but who played a crucial role as deputy attorney general in the scandalous and still-uninvestigated pardon of Marc Rich in the
Clinton administration's dying hours.
Even some West Wing aides want
Holder to resign. Republicans have long been calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign. But citing new
controversies at the Justice Department, The New York Times reported Sunday that even some West Wing aides in President Barack Obama's
White House now want Holder gone.
Are The Long
Knives Coming Out For Eric Holder? The White House has done its best (and sometimes its worst) to crack down on leaks
in order to control the Washington information flow. So it's all the more interesting that West Wing insiders now seem to be
whispering that Attorney General Holder is a liability who needs to go.
Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder Still
Blocking the Truth. This is not the first time that Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, and Eric Holder have been
accused of attempting to thwart a congressional investigation. Not by a long shot.
Loyalty Rewarded: Susan Rice and Samantha Power. Obama cares
little about the public's opinion of his appointees; see how tenaciously he has clung to Eric Holder so far through thick and thin.
Should Congress Impeach Eric Holder?
Eric Holder — Obama's Attorney General — should be impeached by the Republican House of Representatives.
Without a doubt, Holder's obvious perjury in lying to Congress is the most serious offense. But to understand one of Holder's
underlying offenses (in a long string), one must know the difference between "good law" and "bad law." Under the letter of the
law, the search warrant for Fox News reporter James Rosen's emails appears proper. But the Attorney General defied U.S. Supreme
Court precedents.
Did Eric
Holder Monitor the Phones of Congress? Maybe, maybe not. During testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday, Attorney General
Eric Holder was asked to assure that the phones of Congress had never been monitored by the Department of Justice in light of secret
monitoring of reporters and 141 million Verizon Wireless customers. Holder refused to give an answer.
Valerie
Jarrett: Take it from me, Eric Holder will be Attorney General for quite a while. During an interview with Huffington
Post Live, President Obama's senior adviser Valerie Jarrett pushed back against the idea that Eric Holder might step down as attorney
general. "That's definitely not the case. I think that one of the things you learn in this business is, don't listen to
rumors," Jarrett said bluntly. "You can take it from me — obviously I know the president pretty well, I know the
attorney general pretty well, and he will be in his position for quite a while." Jarrett added that Holder had the "full
confidence and respect" of the president.
Eric Holder Clinches
the Case For His Resignation or Removal. Eric Holder's interview with Pete Williams of NBC News is, as John says, a classic.
It seems to me that Holder's statements during the interview nail down the case that he lied to Congress or to a court.
Eric Holder
• Was appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton
• Vetted the Clinton administration's 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001
• Was deeply involved in Clinton's pardons of Marc Rich and the Puerto Rican FALN terrorists
• Condemned the Guantanamo Bay detention center as an "international embarrassment"
• Was appointed U.S. Attorney General by President Barack Obama
• Strong opponent of gun rights
• Sought to try islamic terrorists in civilian courts rather than in military tribunals
• Filed suit against several states that had passed laws designed to stem the flow of illegal immigration
• Opposes efforts to purge voter rolls of ineligible names, or to enact voter-ID laws
Attorney
General Eric Holder is not up to the task. People are looking for the wrong "scandal" about Attorney General Eric Holder.
The problem with Holder is the plain fact that, in the judgment of a wide range of legal colleagues, he has been a mediocre attorney general.
DOJ Hasn't Found One Improper FOIA Exemption
Since 2009. The Department of Justice told top congressional investigators Monday it has not challenged a single instance of a
federal agency withholding records from Freedom of Information (FOIA) requestors since 2009.
The Casual Tyrant. It takes a special
brand of chutzpah to use one's own misdeeds as an occasion for "debate" or "updating" the law. [...] Eric Holder experimented
with that tactic after he got nabbed for hacking into the emails of journalist James Rosen on a subpoena that defined him as a
criminal spy. Instead of quitting, Holder dug in, casting the scandal as a learning experience for the nation, as if he
had nothing to do with it. Now Obama is trying out that tactic to mollify Americans over the exposed NSA program.
He is open to a "healthy" debate about it. Holder and Obama are like drunk drivers who cause a pile-up and then stroll back
innocently to see if they can "help."
The felonious fibbers. Thousands of
Americans are languishing in federal prisons for lying to federal officials. Federal officials themselves often get a pass when
they tell a whopper to Congress. It's a double standard that must end. The problem starts at the top with Attorney General
Eric H. Holder Jr.
The felonious fibbers. The problem
starts at the top with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. [...] Two years ago, Mr. Holder told a House hearing that he was unfamiliar
with the administration's gunrunning operation. "I'm not sure of the exact date," Mr. Holder told the House Judiciary Committee,
"but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks." Documents surfaced showing that he
learned about the program nearly a year earlier.
Holder dodges GOP subpoena.
Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to meet with House Republicans as part of their probe into whether he misled Congress or acted
inappropriately in the Justice Department's investigation of two separate leaks to media outlets. House Judiciary Committee
Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) made the announcement late Friday [6/14/2013] after exchanging several weeks worth of testy letters
with the nation's top cop. In agreeing to meet with the lawmakers, Holder staved off the threat of a subpoena from Goodlatte
for a second time in as many weeks.
Impeach Eric Holder. In a recent talk radio interview, Texas
Congressman Lamar Smith the former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, confirmed a rumor that behind closed doors he has heard a number of his colleagues
discussing the impeachment of Holder. Congress has the authority to impeach any Senate-confirmed cabinet official or federal judge, not just presidents.
Justice,
State Departments Hosting Gay Pride Events This Week. The departments of Justice and State this week are holding back-to-back LGBT
events in honor of gay pride month, and as the Supreme Court prepares to deliver two landmark decisions on same-sex marriage. On Tuesday
[6/18/2013], the Justice Department celebrated pride with speeches from Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., the first openly gay member of the Senate,
singer-songwriter and gay and lesbian activist Melissa Etheridge, and Attorney General Eric Holder, all on the theme "A Year of Firsts," according
to DOJPride.com, the official site for LGBT Employees at the department.
Holder: More to Be Done for LGBTs,
No Matter How SCOTUS Rules on DOMA, Prop 8. Attorney General Eric Holder hosted a "pride" event for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and
transgenders at the Justice Department on Tuesday, telling attendees that the homosexual agenda will be a "priority" during the remainder of his
time as the nation's top cop. "The fact remains that across the country far too many LBGT Americans suffer discrimination each and every
day," Holder said.
Eric Holder: James Rosen probe 'appropriate'.
Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in a new letter, reiterating that he did not lie when
he told the committee no journalists have been prosecuted by the Justice Department for publishing leaks. Holder called the investigation that
involved Fox News reporter James Rosen "appropriate," saying again that charges were never brought against Rosen and saying the committee might have
misinterpreted his remarks.
Justice for Trayvon, Race-Hustler Style.
Right now, hanging on the door of a federal employee's office in the Department of Justice Voting Section is a sign expressing racial solidarity with
Trayvon Martin. What this has to do with the Department of Justice is perhaps a mystery, but not to me. One might ponder why the Justice
Department Civil Rights Division rushed to Florida in the first place and took sides once the racial furnace was sufficiently stoked. When Eric
Holder's old pal from D.C. (and a Philadelphia court case), New Black Panther chieftain Malik Zulu Shabazz, called for a 10,000 strong black-male
mob to seize George Zimmerman, we knew what was in store. It wasn't going to be justice.
Flashback —
Holder: Universal Voter Registration Through Federal Benefits. Election integrity advocates must always remember that even progressive
contingency plans have contingency plans. President Obama's reported statement in Senegal regarding the Supreme Court decision to strike down
Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act as outdated and unconstitutional was a dog whistle to election law agitators that deserves interpretation.
DOJ Defunds Youth Programs
That Reference God. The Department of Justice has summarily removed federal funding from two Louisiana youth programs because
a local official refused to sign a pledge stating he would require the programs to ban mentions of God.
The
Role of the Justice Department in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests. Judicial Watch announced today [7/10/2013] that it has obtained
documents in response to local, state, and federal records requests revealing that a little-known unit of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Community
Relations Service (CRS), was deployed to Sanford, FL, following the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize and manage rallies and protests against
George Zimmerman.
Trayvongate: Newest Obama Scandal is 17 Months Old.
Welcome to Trayvongate, where the President of the United States used both the bully pulpit, the Department of Justice and sly media manipulation
to gin up charges of racism in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting.
Department
of Justice reportedly organized pro-Trayvon Martin protests. According to documents released earlier today by the anti-corruption,
conservative organization Judicial Watch, a little-known division of the Justice Department sent agents to the central Florida port city of Sanford
in order to deal with community relations after Trayon Martin's fatal shooting last year. "Records obtained by Judicial Watch in response to
local, state and federal public records requests show that the so-called peacekeepers are part of a large and growing division within DOJ called the
Community Relations Service (CRS)," the group reported.
Docs: Justice Department facilitated anti-Zimmerman
protests. A division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was deployed to Sanford, Florida in 2012 to provide assistance for
anti-George Zimmerman protests, including a rally headlined by activist Al Sharpton, according to newly released documents. The Community
Relations Service (CRS), a unit of DOJ, reported expenses related to its deployment in Sanford to help manage protests between March and April 2012,
according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Newly
Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin protests. Judicial Watch announced today that
it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman.
Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of
Information Act request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012. According to the documents JW received, a little-known DOJ unit called the
Community Relations Service deployed to Sanford, FL, to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.
Tea party petition to prosecute
Eric Holder nears 1 million signers. A tea party group that launched a petition drive to prosecute U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
reported on its Facebook page that nearly 1 million have signed on — and the movement is only growing by the minute.
Taxpayers Helped
Sharpton Stir Anti-Zimmerman Anger. The Obama administration spent thousands of federal dollars to help the Rev. Al Sharpton pressure
the state of Florida to railroad George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting case. The Justice Department not only met with Martin's parents
and the notorious racial arsonist Sharpton, as we reported earlier this week. It even helped them organize rallies against Zimmerman, who trial
evidence shows shot Martin in self-defense.
Obama's Alinskyite Administration.
Judicial Watch, a conservative legal foundation, has used the Freedom of Information Act to uncover documents that show Eric Holder's Justice Department
used a "community relations" unit to support and stage-manage public protests in Florida against George Zimmerman after his controversial February 2012
shooting of Trayvon Martin. Justice's Community Relations Service (CRS) even helped organize a meeting between Sanford, Fla., public officials and
the local NAACP. The result was the resignation of police chief Bill Lee over his handling of the Martin case.
Holder Fiscal Year 2011
Travel Cost More Than $1.45 Million. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder took 62 out-of-town trips in fiscal year 2011 at a cost of at
least $1.45 million, according to a set of disclosures sent to Bloomberg News. Holder's travel during the period included an April 2011
trip to Las Vegas, marked business and personal, that cost $46,358. Nine other trips, including visits to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and
Miami, were labeled "personal," and cost a combined $169,502. He took an $83,002 flight to Krakow, Poland, to attend the G-6 summit.
Impeach Attorney General
Holder — for Justice's Sake. With the news this week that Attorney General Holder's Department of Justice had
used tax-paid employees of his department to foment the demonstrations which forced the prosecution of George Zimmerman, it is apparent
that something is very seriously wrong.
Blackness Trumps Fairness. While George Zimmerman
has been acquitted, his troubles are hardly behind him. It's not just that no small number of thugs want his head on a platter, but that the
baddest of them all is the highest law-enforcement official in the land. The question of whether Eric Holder's Department of Justice will file a
civil-rights-violation suit against Zimmerman is especially salient now.
Holder
Revives Bogus Civil Rights Investigation Against Zimmerman. The Obama Justice Department is reviving its bogus civil rights investigation
of George Zimmerman, despite a Florida jury's acquittal of Zimmerman yesterday [7/13/2013] on all charges. The trial demonstrated a dearth of
evidence that he intended to kill Trayvon Martin, much less that he killed him with an intent to deny his civil rights.
America's Third World System of Criminal Justice.
Start with Obama's tampering with the jury pool, in this case all of America. Trayvon Martin, he said, looked like the son he might have had. [...] Then
there was the DoJ subsidy to protesters in the area of the trial. Just in case, maybe, the jurors hadn't gotten with the program. The
dollars in question were small. The principle in question wasn't. Justice is supposed to be blind, and maybe it is in other countries.
Only not in Eric Holder's DoJ.
Now Obama and Holder are stuck.
With racialist political motives, President Obama and Attorney General Holder attempted to railroad George Zimmerman. When President Obama
said that if he had a son, the child would look like Trayvon Martin, the President was really saying that Zimmerman has murdered my son, and African
Americans must avenge this evil deed. (Not to mention that the President was intentionally poisoning the jury pool.) Attorney General
Holder did his part by, among other things, dispatching Justice Department employees to Sanford, Florida to stoke the fires of revenge.
Justice
Department faces evidence hurdles in proving Zimmerman bias after verdict. The Justice Department was running into immediate hurdles
Monday [7/15/2013] in its investigation of possible civil rights violations by George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin —
namely, that after examining the case for more than a year, the evidence has not changed.
Now Obama and Holder are stuck.
African-American leaders such as Roslyn M. Brock, Chair of the NAACP, have begun to urge the prosecution of Zimmerman under the [federal hate crime]
statute. But Obama and Holder are caught on the horns of a dilemma. If they prosecute Zimmerman, the trial will make crystal clear that he
is a racially tolerant man while Trayvon Martin was a bigot. This is not a good outcome for their racialist politics.
FBI's Zimmerman Probe Shows
Holder's Got No Case. Mob Justice: Attorney General Eric Holder confirms he'll do the bidding of racial arsonists and look into
bringing criminal civil-rights charges against George Zimmerman. Good luck with that. The state of Florida just spent more than $1 million
prosecuting Zimmerman for murder in the Trayvon Martin shooting and couldn't find a shred of evidence he was animated by racial hatred. A jury
summarily dismissed the trumped-up charges.
What Federal Law Has Zimmerman Violated?
Why should the federal government intervene in murder, the prosecution of which is the job of the states? The main civil-rights laws are targeted
at defendants who deprive others of their federal rights acting under "color of law" — i.e., acting on behalf of the state. That is
the whole point of the Reconstruction Amendments, which the civil-rights laws implement: to prevent states from depriving their residents of
their constitutional rights.
Justice Department in hot
seat after declining to prosecute alleged IRS abuse. A top Republican senator is pressing Attorney General Eric Holder for answers
following allegations by a government watchdog that the IRS may have improperly accessed the tax records of a political donor or candidate — but
the Justice Department declined to prosecute the case. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, questioned whether that DOJ decision was "politically
motivated."
What
about the words 'not guilty' does Obama's Department of Justice not understand? Ever since George Zimmerman was found not guilty of
Trayvon Martin's murder, the US Department of Justice has been pursuing other ways of getting him behind bars. It wants to nail him for
breaking federal race-relation laws — for which it would have to prove that Zimmerman was motivated by racism and that it was his
civil rights that he was gunning for when he shot him dead. The DOJ's argument has already hit some logic hurdles. After examining
the case for a year, the evidence hasn't changed and proof of Zimmerman's racial bias remains absent.
Using
stereotyping, Eric Holder calls for the end of stereotyping. As [Eric] Holder desired, much of the day's media coverage focused on his
telepromptered assault on so-called "stand-your-ground laws." More than half the states permit citizens to use deadly force when threatened
without fleeing, if they are in a place where they have a right to be, such as their home. And about 15 of those states, including
Florida, extend that right beyond the home. Never mind that the law was never mentioned during the trial. No one asked.
But Holder is against it.
The Nifonging of George Zimmerman.
Eric Holder is the same individual who was found in contempt of Congress for refusing to provide evidence related to the more than two thousand
gun felonies that his Justice Department orchestrated in Operation Fast and Furious. Now it is credibly alleged that the Justice Department
misappropriated federal money to orchestrate public demonstrations and quasi-lynch mobs against [George] Zimmerman.
DOJ solicits email tips in Zimmerman civil
rights probe. The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday afternoon [7/15/2013] appealed to civil rights groups and community
leaders, nationally and in Sanford, for help investigating whether a federal criminal case might be brought against George Zimmerman for
the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, one advocate said. The DOJ has also set up a public email address to take in tips on its civil
rights investigation.
DOJ Asks Civil Rights Groups, General Public for 'Tips' on
Zimmerman. On Monday afternoon [7/15/2013], the US Department of Justice appealed to civil rights groups and the general public across
the country for "tips" on George Zimmerman in their pursuit of potential federal civil rights charges against the just-acquitted defendant in the
Trayvon Martin killing. The DOJ actually went so far as to set up an e-mail address to allow such tips.
DOJ trolling for email tips in Zimmerman probe.
More than a year after an FBI report indicated there was no evidence of racial bias in George Zimmerman's history, the Justice Department is trolling
for email tips on the former neighborhood watch volunteer as it weighs a possible federal civil rights case against him. Amid pressure from the
NAACP and several Democratic lawmakers to pursue Zimmerman, the department has set up a public email address asking for any tips or information regarding
the case.
While Eric Holder Plays Racial Politics, Innocent Children Perish in
Chicago! Yes, this is the same Eric Holder who was party to the shipment of guns to Mexico in the Fast and Furious scandal,
which cost hundreds of Mexicans and Americans their lives. And this is the same scoundrel who is still in contempt of Congress for
failing to turn over documents related to that awful debacle. That Eric Holder has now audaciously appointed himself the great
protector of the young and innocent [...]
4 Reasons to Reject Federal Charges Against George
Zimmerman. Although Obama wants us to respect the jury's verdict, that does not necessarily mean he will. His Justice Department
is mulling the possibility of prosecuting Zimmerman again, most likely based on the federal hate crime statute. That would be wrong for at least
four reasons.
Workers in Washington apparently must be paid a living wage, unless they are paid nothing. Justice Department looking to
employ experienced attorneys — for free. The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice is looking to hire experienced,
full-time, bar-certified lawyers. The catch: These attorneys will not be paid.
The Obama
Administration's Race-Baiting Campaign. The first thing to remember is that, with the Obama administration, there are no
coincidences. The attorney general of the United States is engaged in a shocking extrajudicial publicity campaign. Eric Holder is
prosecuting George Zimmerman in the court of public opinion because he knows he wouldn't have a prayer of convicting him in a court of law.
Lying in the Age of Obama. The attorney general of the
United States lied recently to Congress. He said he knew of no citizen's communications that his department had monitored. Lie!
In fact, Holder knew that his subordinates were targeting reporters. He also did not tell the truth about the New Black Panthers case.
He had sworn that there was no political decision to drop the case. Not true; the decision came from the top. He again lied about
the time frame in which he first learned of the Fast and Furious case.
Eric Holder steals George Zimmerman's gun.
Attorney General Eric Holder has confiscated George Zimmerman's gun. Even though Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury in the death of
Trayvon Martin, the Justice Department on Thursday [7/18/2013] ordered the Sanford police to put a hold on the evidence from the trial,
which includes the Kel Tek 9mm handgun. It is not clear what federal law or legal procedure allows Mr. Holder to stop a police
chief in Florida from returning a firearm to an innocent man.
Former
DOJ official: Civil rights unit sent to mediate anti-Zimmerman protests has history of advocacy. The Department of Justice civil
rights unit sent to Sanford, Florida in 2012 to mediate the anti-George Zimmerman protests has a history of putting racial advocacy ahead of
its mandated duties, according to a former head of the unit. "At CRS headquarters, we (meaning I) regularly had to warn or take corrective
action against career employees for acting as advocates instead of mediators," Ondray Harris, the former director of the DOJ's Community Relations
Service (CRS), told The Daily Caller. CRS was the unit deployed to Sanford in 2012 to oversee anti-Zimmerman protests.
Let's
Shed Some Light on Eric Holder's Blatant Disregard for the Rule of Law. Yesterday [7/24/2013] during a speech on the
House floor, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar took a moment to remind everyone of Attorney General Eric Holder's lawless record in the
Department of Justice. Gosar has been leading a charge of no confidence against Holder for years and re-introduced his Resolution
of No Confidence earlier this year. The Resolution calls for Holder's immediate resignation and has 137 co-sponsors in the House.
Holder is still in criminal and civil contempt of Congress.
Justice Dept. to press
Texas on voting rights, despite ruling by Supreme Court. The Obama administration said Thursday that it will ask a federal
court to require that Texas receive federal approval before it makes changes to its voting laws, opening up another battle front in the
wake of the Supreme Court ruling last month that struck down a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Race Relations are Much
Worse Thanks To Obama And Holder. Every chance Barack Obama and Eric Holder get, they seem to pick at the nation's healing racial wounds.
Taking sides against a jury's decision, the Great Uniter declared that "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," and later called for a national
"conversation" on race — code for "endless lectures" by the left. Holder, meanwhile, this week defied a recent Supreme Court ruling by launching
an attack on heavily Republican Texas' voter-ID laws. Yet the undeniable Black Panther voter intimidation in Philadelphia gets shrugged off by his
Department of Justice.
Holder Declares War on Texas, Ignores
Supreme Court Ruling. Attorney General Eric Holder has launched a war against Texas, and in doing so is defying the Supreme Court of the
United States. The imminent judicial beat-down of Holder highlights that this case is not about the rule of law and instead abuses the federal
courts for political purposes to rile up the far left and demonize Republicans.
DOJ ripped for
making transgender restroom use new front in civil rights battle. The U.S. Department of Justice's latest cause — fighting
for a transgendered California ninth-grader's right to use the boy's room at school — has conservative groups wondering just how far
Washington will go in the name of civil rights. The student was born a girl but "has identified as a boy from a young age," according
to the Department of Justice, which reached a settlement with the public school district in Arcadia, an affluent LA suburb. Under the
deal, the district must not only change the student's restroom privileges and make similar accommodations on overnight trips.
It also must institute a host of measures to ensure transgender students are treated as whatever gender they consider themselves to be.
More Voting-Rights
Challenges from Holder. The Washington Post reports that Eric Holder plans to file voting-rights challenges not only against
Texas, which the DOJ did last week, but against a number of other states, too. These challenges are part of a crusade to, as Holder says, "use
every tool" at the Obama administration's disposal to continue federal oversight of the states in this area, despite the Supreme Court's decision
last month in Shelby County v. Holder.
The Three Amigos of Racial Discord. On Monday [7/29/2013],
MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton and other "civil rights" leaders met with President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. They
were purportedly discussing voting rights, but, in reality, they were discussing how to perpetuate voter fraud.
House Panel: Yes, Eric
Holder Gave Deceptive Testimony While Under Oath. These "phony" scandals keep rudely refusing to go away. New findings from the
House Judiciary Committee appear to stop short of accusing the Attorney General of bona fide perjury, but make clear that they view his testimony as
grossly misleading.
House Judiciary
chairman calls Holder's testimony 'deceptive and misleading'. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) slammed Attorney
General Eric Holder after an investigation by Goodlatte's committee reported discrepancies between Holder's congressional testimony and decision to
approve a search warrant for emails from Fox News Correspondent James Rosen.
Congressman wants Holder resignation.
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar escalated his criticism of Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday [8/1/2013], first blasting Holder in a speech on the House floor
then authoring a "dear colleague" letter asking his congressional brethren to join him in a resolution of no confidence and demanding that the country's highest
ranking law enforcement official step down immediately.
Seven More Reasons to Impeach Eric
Holder. Power is never vested in just one man. Even the powers of the man in the Oval Office depend on internal checks
and balances. A president alone cannot violate the law. His cabinet has to aid him in that task. The man who stands at
Obama's side, the man who aids and abets his lawbreaking more than any other, is Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder is the man who is
truly accountable for Obama's lawlessness because it is his responsibility to hold Obama accountable. Instead Holder has descended into
entirely new areas of lawnessness.
Documents:
Attorney General Eric Holder billed taxpayers for more than $4 MILLION in travel in less than 4 years. U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder's travel expenses exceeded $4 million for 213 separate trips during President Obama's first term in office, according to documents
obtained through the Freedom Of Information Act. The expenses, incurred between March 2009 and August 2012, were all borne by
taxpayers — including those covering several personal trips.
Holder
travel tab: $4.2m total, $697,525 personal, including $95,184 to Martha's Vineyard. The records from Justice and provided to [the
Washington Examiner] show that Holder, who is required to travel on government aircraft because of security, submitted bills of $16,452.50 to
speak at Al Sharpton's National Action Network on New York in April 2011, $38,108.18 in expenses to address the pro-immigration reform group
LULAC in June 2012, and $38,108.18 to speak to another pro-immigration group, La Raza, in Las Vegas in July 2012.
Holder Does End-Run Around Congress on Federal Drug
Laws. Attorney General Eric Holder has just announced an end-run around Congress and given the far left one of its priority action-items, announcing he will not
prosecute drug crimes unconnected to gangs or violence. Ironically, he invoked the conservative principle of federalism to do it.
Holder's mortgage fraud whopper.
Bloomberg News provides the latest evidence that the Obama Administration cannot be trusted to report on itself honestly.
Crime statistics are sure to improve! Can
Obama write his own laws? On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder, a liberal in a hurry, ordered all U.S. attorneys to simply stop charging nonviolent,
non-gang-related drug defendants with crimes that, while fitting the offense, carry mandatory sentences. Find some lesser, non-triggering charge. How might
you do that? Withhold evidence — for example, the amount of dope involved. In other words, evade the law, by deceiving the court if necessary.
Department of Justice Sues Texas Over
Voter ID Law. The Obama administration will sue Texas to block its voter ID law, the Justice Department said on Thursday [8/22/2013]. The
lawsuit will challenge the law under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or language.
Will Eric Holder ever learn to be
careful what he asks for? Eric Holder, perhaps the worst, most corrupt attorney general in history, famously demanded Americans stop being cowardly
and have a conversation about race. Well, in the aftermath of the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Christopher Lane, and now World War II hero Delbert Belton,
I don't think he likes the frankness he is starting to get from whites and other nonblacks.
Justice Dept. tries to stop La. school
vouchers. The U.S. Justice Department is trying to stop the state from distributing school vouchers in any district that remains under a
desegregation court order.
MLK's Dream Deferred. The irony isn't merely rich.
It's tragic. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech this week, the Obama Justice Department is suing
the state of Louisiana to stop it from distributing school vouchers to kids seeking to escape failing schools.
Meet the Radical Lawyers Suing
Bobby Jindal to Block School Choice. Personnel is policy, and the Obama administration knows it. That's why they hired swarms of committed
leftist lawyers to populate the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Bobby Jindal and school choice advocates are finding out the hard way how
it works.
Holder vs. Martin Luther King Jr..
Give Eric Holder credit for cognitive racial dissonance. On nearly the same day the Attorney General spoke in Washington to honor the 50th
anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, his Justice Department sued to block the educational dreams of minority children
in Louisiana.
Obama, Holder
Stand In Louisiana Schoolhouse Door. The Justice Department has asked a federal court to stop 34 school districts
in Louisiana from handing out private-school vouchers so kids can escape failing public schools, just like the president's daughters.
Bobby Jindal: Obama's DOJ
using civil rights law against black children. President Obama spoke about the fulfilling the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who hoped
every American child receive a good education, but his Justice Department is using a civil rights law to shut down a school choice program that allows black
children to escape failing schools.
Justice
Department bids to trap poor, black children in ineffective schools. Nine of 10 Louisiana children who receive vouchers to attend private
schools are black. All are poor and, if not for the state assistance, would be consigned to low-performing or failing schools with little chance of
learning the skills they will need to succeed as adults. So it's bewildering, if not downright perverse, for the Obama administration to use the banner
of civil rights to bring a misguided suit that would block these disadvantaged students from getting the better educational opportunities they are due.
The Holder-Jindal Collision. Louisiana governor
Bobby Jindal found out late on Friday, August 23. Attorney General Eric Holder was suing to block the state's school voucher program, which
aims to give low-income kids in terrible schools the opportunity to attend better public schools and even private schools. The Justice Department
claims the two-year-old program could interfere with federal desegregation orders in several Louisiana parishes, holdovers from the Civil Rights era.
Obama's
cruel fight against school choice. The Justice Department has challenged my state in court for having the temerity to start a scholarship program
that frees low-income minority children from failing schools. In other words, Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder would rip children out of their schools
and handcuff them to the failing schools they previously attended. And, in the ultimate irony, they are using desegregation orders set up to prevent
discrimination against minority children to try to do it.
Eric
Holder, IRS officials coached tax-exempt black ministers on how to engage in political activity. Attorney General Eric Holder and
IRS officials advised black ministers on how to engage in political activity during the 2012 election without violating their tax-exempt status.
Holder, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, and Peter Lorenzetti, a senior official in the scandal-plagued agency's exempt organizations
division, participated in a May 2012 training session for black ministers from the Conference of National Black Churches at the U.S. Capitol
hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Holder spoke at the event.
DOJ Asks
'Forgiveness' for Failing to Consult With Agencies Opposed to Pot Legalization. Deputy Attorney General James Cole told Congress
this week that although the Justice Department did consult with federal, state and local agencies on marijuana legalization in Colorado and
Washington State, "we should have reached out to them one more time before we made the decision" not to challenge those state laws.
Holder,
IRS officials spoke at political training session for black ministers that detailed 'right-wing conspiracy'. The meeting was attended by
Attorney General Eric Holder, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, and IRS official Peter Lorenzetti, all of whom spoke at the event. The
meeting, which was held during the presidential campaign and at a time when the IRS was targeting conservative non-profits for abusive audits, aimed to
coach black ministers in how to engage in political activity without violating the law.
DOJ spox to USA Today: 'I will
save what I have for another outlet'. A Department of Justice spokesperson who initially offered to provide sources to USA Today has reversed
that decision on the grounds that the reporter was "biased" and would not forego his story even if the sources undercut its premise. [...] The article, which
USA Today is expected to publish on Thursday afternoon [9/19/2013], concerns the fact that the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) did not launch
an investigation into government lawyers who were believed to have misrepresented the scope of the government's electronic surveillance efforts.
FBI
Instructed to Break Rules Banning Interactions With Terrorist Co-Conspirator CAIR. CAIR was determined to be related to the web of terrorist
financing during the Holy Land Foundation trials in Dallas, a trial which resulted in guilty verdicts. Afterwards, the FBI issued a blanket policy:
no cooperation in the field with CAIR. But the FBI's Office of Public Affairs issued instructions to ignore the policy. Why are DOJ press
flunkies in Washington, D.C. issuing directives to FBI field offices about how to deal with CAIR? The answer to this question lies at the heart of the
scandal, demonstrating that the politicized lawlessness of the Eric Holder Justice Department now is affecting the FBI.
Justice Department vs. Louisiana Voucher Kids.
School-choice programs have faced no shortage of legal challenges en route to their adoption in 18 states and the District of Columbia.
But none of the challenges is so perverse or perplexing as the Justice Department's motion last month to wield desegregation decrees to halt Louisiana's
voucher program.
Fresh DOJ loss in 'Fast and Furious' docs fight.
A federal judge has rejected Attorney General Eric Holder's attempt to keep the courts from wading into the "Fast and Furious" documents dispute that led to him
being held in contempt by the House last year. In a ruling Monday night [9/30/2013], U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson turned down the Justice
Department's request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after President Barack Obama asserted executive
privilege to prevent some records about the administration's response to the "Operation Fast and Furious" gunrunning scandal from being turned over to
Congress.
Federal
judge to DOJ: No, you may not dismiss this Fast & Furious case just because you feel like it. The last time we checked in on Operation Fast
and Furious, the bloody and not-"botched" gunrunning scandal in which the ATF pressed American gun dealers into funneling at least 2,000 weapons to cartels
across the Mexican border with no serious efforts to trace them, more of the trafficked weapons were still showing up at crime scenes as recently as this
past August.
Court Says Holder Can't Stop Fast And
Furious Truth Search. The most transparent administration in history suffered a defeat Monday, when U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson
turned down the Justice Department's request to dismiss a lawsuit seeking "Fast and Furious" documents hidden by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice
Department after President Obama invoked executive privilege. The lawsuit was brought by Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee after the president asserted executive privilege to prevent records about the administration's response to the "Operation Fast and Furious"
gun-running scandal from being turned over to Congress.
Judge delivers blow to Eric Holder's Fast and Furious
scandal. A federal judge delivered a blow to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder' Monday night [9/30/2013] when she denied the Justice
Department's motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought against it in the Fast and Furious investigation.
Justice Department to sue North Carolina over
voter law. The Justice Department announced Monday [9/30/2013] that it is suing the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over
tough new voter ID rules. The suit claims that the North Carolina statute violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and would seek to have the
state subject to federal pre-clearance before making "future voting-related changes." The suit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nashville,
Tenn. Attorney General Eric Holder said "by restricting access and ease of voter participation, this new law would shrink, rather than expand, access"
to voting.
Justice Dept. to sue North Carolina over
GOP-backed voting rules. The Justice Department filed suit Monday to block North Carolina's new voter-ID law, with Attorney General Eric H.
Holder Jr. accusing state Republicans of engaging in a deliberate effort to suppress black voter turnout. [...] "This concern about vote fraud is something that
is made up in order to justify these restrictive and I think, at a minimum, partisan actions," Mr. Holder said in a news conference at the Justice Department.
Will Fast And Furious Justice Finally
Befall Eric Holder? Serial abuses of justice by America's top law enforcement official should be enough to make just about any tinhorn banana
republic dictator blush. Yet regarding any embarrassment evidenced by the leader of the free world... not so much. Despite the fact that our
attorney general has been indicted for contempt of Congress on both felony and civil charges, has repeatedly lied under oath, and has routinely turned a blind
eye to laws that he is duty-bound to enforce, Mr. Holder continues to serve at the behest of his presidential mentor. At least he has so far.
Black Skin Privilege.
Under the banner of "leveling the playing field," the rules of the game have been systematically rigged — against whites and in favor of
blacks. Speaking for the dominant culture in our universities, and for the U.S. Supreme Court's majority, Columbia University law
professor Patricia Williams, who is black, explains: "If the modern white man, innocently or not, is the inheritor of another's due,
then it must be returned." (Innocent or not!) Attorney General Eric Holder is of a similar mind.
Have Barack Obama and Eric Holder Caused
an Increase in Mass Murder? Attorney General Eric Holder said today [10/21/2013], in a speech to a convention of police chiefs, that mass shooting incidents
have tripled in the last few years. [...] Normally that might be considered an admission against interest, inasmuch as he is the nation's chief law enforcement officer.
But of course Holder didn't take any responsibility for the trend he described. As far as I can tell, Democrats are interested in crime only when it serves as an excuse
for gun control; never as a reason to consider more effective law enforcement measures, or to step up prosecution and punishment of criminals.
Sen. David Vitter Calls on DOJ to Investigate Armed EPA Raid
in Alaska. Vitter, in a letter sent Tuesday [10/22/2013] to Attorney General Eric Holder, requested the Justice Department investigate the EPA raid, which
occurred at a gold mine in Chicken, Alaska earlier this year as part of an investigation into violations of the Clean Water Act. "The EPA's use of unnecessary armed
intimidation tactics against Alaska miners this summer was extreme, especially to investigate potential Clean Water Act violations from what are essentially a handful of
small business owners," said Vitter, the ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
The Editor says...
Senator Vitter might as well put his complaints in a letter to Santa Claus. Eric Holder isn't going to investigate — let alone
obstruct — any action by the EPA or any other federal agency.
DOJ Tries to Stop Parents from Defending
Louisiana School Voucher Program. The Justice Department is attempting to block parents from defending the Louisiana school voucher program
in court, according to a brief filed Tuesday [10/22/2013]. Four families filed last month to intervene in the DOJ's lawsuit against the Louisiana
Scholarship Program, which grants vouchers to students so they can flee failing schools rated C, D, or F.
Mendacity, thy name is Eric Holder.
Mendacity should never be associated with the U.S. Department of Justice, but Attorney General Eric Holder's minions are giving the nation a textbook
example of that characteristic. In a motion filed earlier this year in federal court, Justice Department lawyers asked the U.S. District Court
for the Eastern District of Louisiana to enjoin state officials from "awarding any school vouchers to students attending school in schools operating
under federal desegregation orders." Why? Because enabling such students to flee their typically failing institutions to other schools
allegedly "impedes desegregation."
Congressman:
We're Going to Try to Impeach Eric Holder over Fast & Furious. Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) told local supporters at a town hall in his northern
Florida district Tuesday night [11/5/2013] that he and other Republicans are currently drafting a resolution seeking impeachment for Attorney General
Eric Holder. "It's to get him out of office — impeachment," Yoho said of the forthcoming resolution, according to the Ocala
Star-Banner newspaper, adding, "it will probably be when we get back in (Washington). It will be before the end of the year. This
will go to the speaker and the speaker will decide if it comes up or not."
The Editor says...
Oh, I see. The Speaker of the House. Well, it didn't take long to get to the dead end on that path.
Lawmakers Push to
Impeach Disgraced A.G. Eric Holder. After having already been held in criminal contempt of Congress for an ongoing cover-up of the Obama
administration's deadly "Fast and Furious" gun-running program, disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder is facing a fresh challenge: an effort by
some GOP lawmakers to impeach him before the end of the year. According to media reports, the bid to force Holder out of power, if successful,
would represent the second impeachment of a cabinet member in American history. Meanwhile, the movement to impeach Obama himself is growing
stronger by the day as well — both in Congress and among everyday Americans.
Rep.
Olson Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Eric Holder. Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) has introduced an Articles of Impeachment resolution
against Attorney General Eric Holder for his role in Operation Fast and Furious and other scandals of President Barack Obama's administration.
Seven congressman have signed onto the resolution thus far in addition to Olson. They are Reps. Larry Bucshon (R-IN), Blake Farenthold (R-TX),
Phil Roe (R-TN), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Roger Williams (R-TX), Ted Yoho (R-FL), and Randy Weber (R-TX).
AG Holder asks for
appeal in Fast and Furious case holding him in contempt. Attorney General Eric Holder wants to appeal a recent judge's ruling that allows
the House to continue with its contempt case, related to Holder's refusal to turn over documents concerning the Justice Department's failed Operation
Fast and Furious gun-tracking program. Holder made the request Friday night [11/15/2013] to U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, asking
that the Justice Department be allowed to put the case in front of a federal appeals court before Jackson makes any final decisions.
Holder: I'll stay Attorney
General 'well into 2014'. Attorney General Eric Holder said in an interview published Friday that he plans to stay in his Cabinet post
'well into' next year, despite many Republican lawmakers having called for his resignation. "I've made the determination — I'm not
sure I've ever said this publicly — but I'm going to certainly stay in this job well into 2014," Holder told the Washington Post Thursday
[11/14/2013] as he returned to Washington from a trip to Illinois.
The DOJ's Radical Civil Rights Division.
President Obama's last head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division was Thomas Perez, a highly controversial radical. Perez
is now the secretary of the Department of Labor. (He was confirmed in July this year by a vote of only 54 to 46.) When looking
to replace Perez at the DOJ, President Obama could have chosen to improve the Civil Rights Division — after all, the Justice Department's
own inspector general concluded in a report earlier this year that the division was guilty of "deep ideological polarization" and a
"disappointing lack of professionalism."
Judge
won't allow Holder appeal now in contempt case. A federal judge [11/18/2013] has refused Attorney General Eric Holder's
request that he be allowed to proceed now with an appeal in a case where the House of Representatives is seeking to enforce
subpoenas for documents related to the controversial Operation Fast and Furious gun investigation.
Why Obama can't wave away this scandal.
Attorney General Eric Holder has survived three scandals that would have felled a Republican. His department attempted to soft-pedal its
responsibility for the so-called "gunwalking" policy called Fast and Furious — which led to the murders of US border agents by
Mexican drug-cartel members with guns effectively provided to the killers by the Justice Department. He approved the secret
surveillance of Fox News Channel reporter James Rosen in a leak investigation on the outrageous grounds that Rosen was a possible
"co-conspirator" in an act of espionage. And he approved similar tactics against reporters at the Associated Press in another
leak investigation. Holder's still there. Obama defends him. When was the last time you heard Rosen's name mentioned,
or the AP story referenced, or Fast and Furious come up?
Supreme
Court Orders DOJ to Respond to German Homeschoolers' Petition. The Supreme Court has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to
respond to the Home School Legal Defense Association's (HSLDA) petition on behalf of the Romeike family, a German family who sought legal
asylum in the United States to escape persecution because homeschooling is largely prohibited in their home country. In a press
release, James Mason, HSLDA's director of litigation, said that the order is a hopeful sign that the High Court will hear the case.
Eric Holder's kickbacks for community
organizers. The government has quite the tidy little deal going in terms of getting money out of large banking interests lately.
The latest example was the $13B dollar "settlement" reached with JP Morgan, which certainly must have taught them a thing or two.
But some observers have been digging into the details of the deal and finding that it might be even sweeter for certain progressive interest
groups than anyone had previously imagined.
The DOJ's Curious Foray into the 'Knockout Game' Fray.
Twenty-seven-year-old Conrad Barrett of Katy, Texas, has been charged with a hate crime by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for
allegedly targeting a 79-year-old black man as his "knockout game" victim. [...] There is no question that the assault attributed to Barrett
was heinous and likely motivated by racial animus, but the Washington Times addresses the other issue that is undoubtedly on the
minds of many Americans. "The 'game' has spawned a fierce debate since many of the reported victims have been white and their
assailants have been black, but hate crimes charges have been all but non-existent," the Post [sic] states.
Obama's DOJ
civil rights nominee represented cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Department of
Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division led the group that represents convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Debo Adegbile, who
awaits Senate confirmation to become assistant attorney general for civil rights in Eric Holder's DOJ, would bring a radical record
on racial issues to his new job, which is responsible for enforcing federal discrimination statutes.
Obama Nominates
Racist Supporter of Cop-Killer to Head DOJ Civil Rights. Obama's nominee process involves finding the worst person on earth for that
job or any job. It's a process that never fails. In this case, he came up with Debo Adegbilem cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal's lawyer and a
supporter of discriminating against white students for reasons of race.
Judicial
Watch's Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians of 2013. Attorney General Eric Holder is chosen for lying about whether
the Department of Justice (DOJ) could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act for publishing classified material. Holder
stated, "In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material — this is not something I've ever been
involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy." However, NBC news reported Holder approved a search warrant
for the email account and phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen. Holder is also noted for "bludgeoning states over
taking steps to prevent voter fraud...
Judicial
Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2013. [Scroll down] In May 2013,
[Eric] Holder may well have committed perjury when he was involved in a back-and-forth with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) about whether
the Department of Justice (DOJ) could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act for publishing classified material. In
response to Johnson's interrogatories Holder made the following statement: "In regard to potential prosecution of the press
for the disclosure of material — this is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy."
Since Holder made that statement, NBC news reported that the attorney general had approved a search warrant for the email account and
phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen. As Hotair.com said at the time: "There is no other way to view this except
as a lie. Even if Holder wasn't under oath, that would constitute a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. It
certainly should produce at least a resignation, and almost assuredly would require the appointment of a special prosecutor ...."
Gov't Offers
New Approach to Classroom Discipline. Although black students made up 15 percent of students in the data collection, they
made up more than a third of students suspended once, 44 percent of those suspended more than once and more than a third of students expelled.
The Editor says...
That's a meaningless series of statistics. Schools should practice equal opportunity expulsion: Troublemakers should be
kicked out, regardless of who they are.
Holder:
School discipline racially biased, too harsh. Attorney General Eric Holder called upon the nation's school districts
Wednesday to rethink "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies that he said disproportionately punish minorities and push too many
students into the justice system. "Alarming numbers of young people are suspended, expelled or even arrested for relatively
minor transgressions like school uniform violations, schoolyard fights or showing 'disrespect' by laughing in class," Holder said
during a speech in Baltimore.
Putting the Chill on Discipline. Holder's
guidelines aim at halting "targeting minorities," but, practically, will accomplish defining deviancy downward yet again in urban minority-dominated
schools — that's mostly black and Hispanic kids from broken families and single-parent households. The A.G.'s guidelines are
another tacit admission that there are enormous dysfunctions in poorer minority communities that liberal prescriptions can't arrest and change.
In place of reality-based solutions and constructive engagement, Holder — on behalf of the president — desires to excuse
liberal urban failures by rationalizing and dismissing near- or outright criminal behavior on the part of minority students.
3 Reasons
Why the Radical Anti-Discipline Policies at DOJ Will Outlast the Obama Era. Today the Drudge Report covers the Justice
Department's racialist attack on school discipline policies. The DOJ policy is based on the idea that school discipline policies
are racially discriminatory because black students comprise a greater percentage of students disciplined than their percentage in the
general population. Call it exceeding the bad-behavior quota. [...] We've come to expect this sort of policy from Eric Holder of
protecting the lawless and misbehaving. The New Black Panther voter intimidation case dismissal was mere prologue.
Jindal: DOJ 'More
Interested In Skin Color' Than Education. In November, the Obama Justice Department dropped a lawsuit aimed at stopping
a school voucher program in Louisiana. The Louisiana Scholarship Program is intended to give students in failing public schools
a chance to attend better schools, including private ones. Justice tried to block the program on the basis that it may have
violated a 1975 federal desegregation order.
The Holder Effect and the Knockout Game.
Thanks to the internet, the liberal elites who censor the output of the major news organizations can no longer cover up events
that fail to depict contemporary life as they wish it to be. [...] For instance, when they are forced to cover this offense, they
still will not use the actual name of Polar Bear Hunting because of its all too obvious racial implications. Unable to ignore
it any longer, they play it down — especially the racial aspects of it, because that may put our black president, his
black attorney general, and all those black and liberal white lawyers in Holder's civil rights division in a bad light because
they aren't investigating what appears to be serial hate crime.
More racial bias from Holder, and
a message to white Americans. So now the US Department of Justice under Eric Holder will use its power to enforce "civil
rights protections" in school disciplinary actions. In fact, the DoJ and DoEd are putting schools on notice that they are prepared
to use their authority to investigate the claims of racial disparity in the punishment of students. And of course the American
Civil Liberties union (ACLU) is thrilled with this policy. [...] I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla and in the
end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan.
Justice Department
likely to expand its definition of racial profiling. The Justice Department is likely to expand the definition of racial
profiling to bar federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations, a
person familiar with the issue said Thursday [1/16/2014].
The Editor says...
Homosexuality and gender have no connection to race.
The Obama Administration's Mandated
Racism. The Departments of Education and Justice have teamed up to make the lives of students in tough neighborhoods even
tougher. Framed as a measure to combat discrimination against black and Hispanic children, the guidelines issued by the Obama administration
about school discipline will actually encourage racial discrimination, undermine the learning environments of classrooms, and contribute to an
unjust race-consciousness in meting out discipline. Claiming that African-American and Hispanic students are more harshly disciplined
than whites for the same infractions, the Obama administration now advises that any disciplinary rule that results in a "disparate impact" on
those groups will be challenged by the government.
Holder's terror surrender.
If indeed he follows through on promises made to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and reported in yesterday's New York Times, Holder should quite
simply be impeached. Now no one supports racial profiling in the conduct of ordinary policing. Nor do we support the harassment
of our Muslim neighbors and friends. But to ignore the role of radical Islamists as a genuine security threat to this nation is nothing
short of insane.
U.S. to adjust rules to let
banks handle marijuana money -Holder. U.S. treasury and law enforcement agencies will soon issue regulations opening
banking services to state-sanctioned marijuana businesses even though cannabis remains classified an illegal narcotic under federal
law, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday [1/23/2014].
Eric Holder: Voter ID [is]
Used to 'Depress the Vote' of People Who Don't Support GOP. Speaking exclusively to MSNBC host Ari Melber, Attorney General Eric Holder
sharply criticized state-level voter identification policies and said that he believes those policies are a "remedy in search of a problem."
He added that, while some may be arguing for voter ID in good faith, he believes that most are advocating for this policy in order to "depress the
vote" of those who do not support the "party that is advancing" voter ID measures. "I think many are using it for partisan advantage," Holder
said of voter ID.
Meet Preet — Obama's
hatchet man against filmmakers. Meet Preet Bharara, the U.S. prosecutor who last week indicted anti-Obama filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza on
campaign finance charges. Mr. Bharara is the snapping jaws of Attorney General Eric H. Holder's junkyard attack dog and the velvet fixer
of President Obama's thorniest political problems. Mr. D'Souza very well may be guilty of a few winks and nods that wound up violating limits
on campaign contributions he was allowed to make to a friend running a long-shot campaign for the Senate. But it does seem rather odd to handcuff
a guy and set $500,000 bail for a crime that in the past has been pleaded out as a misdemeanor.
Sen. Mike Lee Grills
Eric Holder on Executive Orders. The day after he delivered the official tea party response to President Barack Obama's State of the
Union, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) aggressively challenged Attorney General Eric Holder on the constitutional basis for the executive orders Obama announced
in his speech. After questioning Holder about NSA surveillance programs, Lee moved on to discuss the president's renewed efforts to bypass
Congress with executive orders. He asked Holder specifically about the legal basis for the executive order that effectively delayed the
Affordable Care Act's employer mandate.
Cruz Grills Holder on IRS
Scandal Investigation. Ted Cruz demonstrated again yesterday [1/29/2014] why he sets conservative hearts aflutter, pointedly
questioning Attorney General Eric Holder when he appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday over the IRS's going-nowhere
investigation of the IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservative nonprofits.
Are Obama's
Executive Orders Constitutional? Eric Holder Explains. Well, he doesn't, actually. But Senator Mike Lee did a good job of
trying to pin down Attorney General Eric Holder as to the constitutional basis of some of President Obama's executive orders, particularly his
deferral of the employer mandate under Obamacare. As he so often does, Holder bobbed and weaved without ever articulating a constitutional
rationale. In my opinion, there is none.
Attorney
General Eric Holder can't explain constitutional basis for Obama's executive orders. Attorney General Eric Holder couldn't explain the
constitutional basis for executive orders such as President Obama's delay of the employer mandate because he hasn't read the legal analysis —
or at least, hasn't seen it in a long time. "I'll be honest with you, I have not seen — I don't remember looking at or having seen
the analysis in some time, so I'm not sure where along the spectrum that would come," Holder replied when Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, asked him to explain
the nature of Obama's constitutional power to delay the mandate.
Hundreds of Career
Prosecutors Revolt Against Eric Holder. Hundreds of career Justice Department lawyers have broken into open revolt against
Attorney General Holder over his support of legislation that would drastically cut back on mandatory minimum sentences for drug pushers.
The legislation Holder supports, known as the Durbin-Lee bill, would overturn the current mandatory minimum sentences not only for marijuana
violations but for all drug offenses, including major and repeat trafficking in heroin, meth, PCP and other extremely dangerous, and often
lethal, drugs. This was too much for hundreds of federal prosecutors.
Justice Goes After the GOP. The
Justice Department has focused on two prominent Republicans, announcing a corruption indictment of former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell and
launching an active and very public criminal investigation into the antics of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration. In doing
so, federal prosecutors have created at least the appearance that they are targeting two men who have been touted as plausible candidates for
the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.
Justice
bars lawyer from testifying before House panel in IRS probe. The Justice Department said Thursday it is refusing
to let a key lawyer testify to the House oversight committee on the criminal investigation into the IRS, saying that to let
her brief Congress could potentially skew its probe. But oversight committee Republicans said blocking lawyer Barbara
Bosserman from testifying only makes the Justice's investigation look more partisan.
FBI Agents revolt against Eric
Holder. First it was the Justice Department's career prosecutors; now it's FBI agents. The federal employees responsible
for fighting crime are simply unable to digest the anti-law enforcement slop being served up by their boss, Attorney General Holder.
The FBI's beef is with the selection of Debo Adegbile as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. The FBI Agents
Association's opposition is based on the way in which Adegbile defended, and led the cheers for, cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Justice Department to give married same-sex couples equal protection. The Justice Department on
Monday [2/10/2014] will instruct all of its employees across the country, for the first time, to give lawful same-sex marriages sweeping equal protection
under the law in every program it administers, from courthouse proceedings to prison visits to the compensation of surviving spouses of public safety
officers. In a new policy memo, the department will spell out the rights of same-sex couples, including the right to decline to give testimony
that might incriminate their spouses, even if their marriages are not recognized in the state where the couple lives.
Federal government to expand recognition
of same-sex marriage. In a new milestone for gay rights, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. will issue a directive Monday [2/10/2014]
expanding government recognition of same-sex marriages to all federal courtrooms and prisons, and some federal benefits programs. The new
policy, which Holder plans to announce Saturday night [2/8/2014] at a gay rights dinner in New York City, means the Justice Department will not
object if gay or lesbian partners refuse to testify against their spouses in federal criminal and civil cases, and will push for them to be accorded
the same rights in Bankruptcy court as other married couples.
Holder: Repeal laws restricting voting by
ex-felons. Attorney General Eric Holder is calling Tuesday for the repeal of state laws that restrict the voting rights of millions of
former prison inmates. In a speech to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights at Georgetown University Law Center, Holder said it
is "time to fundamentally re-think laws that permanently disenfranchise people who are no longer under federal or state supervision.''
Don't Celebrate Eric Holder's Pending
Departure. Nobody should celebrate the announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder will be leaving the administration this year.
Whoever replaces Holder will be just as radical and ideological. [...] So even after Eric Holder is gone, the Civil Rights Division will be just as
racialist and lawless. The Criminal Division will still refuse to prosecute election gangsters like Melowese Richardson in Ohio who proudly
said on camera she voted six times for President Obama in 2012. It will still refuse to prosecute large banks for criminal conspiracy because
they are "too big" to prosecute.
Holder: State Laws That Bar
Felons From Voting Are 'Too Unjust to Tolerate'. Three days after announcing that the U.S. Justice Department will recognize same-sex
marriages in all legal matters, even in states that forbid it, Attorney General Eric Holder took a swipe at states that don't allow felons to vote.
"In many states, felony disenfranchisement laws are still on the books. And the current scope of these policies is not only too significant to
ignore — it is also too unjust to tolerate," Holder told a criminal justice forum at Georgetown University Law Center.
DOJ Argues to Court Against
Rules to Prevent Foreigners From Voting. Justice Department lawyer Bradley Heard was in court today trying to stop Kansas from ensuring
that only citizens register to vote. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, relying on a United States Supreme Court opinion of last year, asked
the federal Election Assistance Commission to permit him to ensure that only citizens were registering to vote. The Election Assistance Commission
said no, so Kris Kobach went to federal court. Enter Eric Holder's Justice Department, as usual, opposing election integrity measures.
Goodbye, Eric Holder? Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder told
the New Yorker magazine he plans to step down from his post later this year, but a Holder spokesman now denies he made any such commitment. It's just
another confusing day in the increasingly chaotic Obama administration, where, as the president's approval ratings continue to fall, the left hand never quite seems
to know what the extreme-left hand is doing.
Washington's Pack of Pretenders. Certainly Eric Holder's Department of
Justice isn't what the attorney general's "about" page says it is, namely "the central agency for enforcement of federal laws." It is instead the central
agency for approving fishing expeditions against news organizations like the AP; harassing states in matters such as the administration of elections which are
solely their province; deciding which federal laws it will refuse to defend, i.e., the Defense of Marriage Act; and determining which laws it will ruthlessly
reinterpret beyond Congress's and even the Supreme Court's intent. Holder himself is the only attorney general, and in fact the first sitting cabinet
member, ever held in contempt of Congress. There is documented evidence that he knew of Operation Fast and Furious, [...] in July 2010, five months
before Border Patrol agent Brian Terry's murderer used one of those guns to kill him.
Obama
Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths: School Discipline Rates Must Be "Proportionate". [I]n January, [the Obama]
administration — specifically the Departments of Justice and Education — [sent out] a "guidance" letter that demands a group equality
approach to student discipline in America's public schools. If federal bureaucrats suspect that there's any racial disproportionality
in the punishments meted out for misbehavior in school, they will descend on the school's administrators. Unless those officials can
then prove to the government's satisfaction (good luck!) that any differential in rates of punishment by race or ethnic group is "necessary,"
the school will face the loss of federal funds and costly mandates for diversity training. Most school officials would just as soon
have a root canal as face a plague of lawyers from the Justice and Education Departments. To avoid that possibility, they will probably
take the safe route and adopt a de facto racial quota system for student discipline.
Eric
Holder Can't Explain if Constitution Allows Obama's Executive Actions. Attorney General Eric Holder flubbed a question from Sen. Mike
Lee (R-UT) that is of vital importance to the rule of law. While the Constitution allows — and sometimes requires —
executive action on many matters, President Barack Obama has asserted executive authority in unprecedented ways. When Lee asked why one of
Obama's orders does not violate the Constitution, Holder — the chief legal officer of the nation — had no answer.
Holder
Calls for Scrutiny of Gay Marriage Laws. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday [2/24/2014] injected the Obama
administration into the emotional and politicized debate over the future of state same-sex marriage bans, declaring in an interview
that state attorneys general are not obligated to defend laws that they believe are discriminatory. Mr. Holder was careful not
to encourage his state counterparts to disavow their own laws, but said that officials who have carefully studied bans on gay marriage
could refuse to defend them.
Black Pastors: Impeach Holder. A coalition of
black pastors announced on Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that they are launching a campaign to gather one million signatures on
a petition calling for the impeachment of Attorney General Eric Holder for violating his oath of office by trying "to coerce states to fall in line with
the same-sex 'marriage' agenda." "President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have turned their backs on the values the American people hold
dear, values particularly cherished in the black community: values like marriage, which should be strengthened and promoted, rather than weakened
and undermined," says a statement by the Coalition of African American Pastors that has been posted online with their impeachment petition.
Eric Holder Asks State Attorneys
General To Ignore Law. We acknowledge the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion, which provides those charged with enforcing our laws
in the courts with the authority to decide which particular cases merit pursuing. However, this power does not extend to deciding which laws
passed by the duly elected representatives of the people may be enforced. Obama and Holder took oaths to see that the laws of the United States
are faithfully executed, an oath both have ignored. Obama, armed with his pen and his phone, has routinely ignored the courts, Congress and the
Constitution. He's governed through regulations and executive orders like some banana republic dictator. From unconstitutional recess
appointments to the unlawful treatment of the statutory requirements of his own signature legislation, Obama operates as if laws are written on
an Etch-A-Sketch. He has adopted the imperial attitude of a despot who believes the ends justify the means.
Eric
Holder To State Attorneys General: You Don't Have to Enforce Laws You Disagree With. Attorney General Eric Holder is taking the
lawless attitude of the Obama administration and passing it down to state attorneys general. Yesterday [2/24/2014] during an interview
with The New York Times, Holder said state attorneys general do not have to enforce laws they disagree with, specifically when it
comes to the issue of gay marriage.
Lawless Eric Holder advises State A.G.s
that they may disregard state laws. A state attorney general is sworn to uphold and defend the laws of the state the
AG serves. If he/she can't do that, resignation makes sense. Better yet, stay and uphold the oath of office by defending
the law competently in an appeal.
Indefensible. [Scroll down] Consider
that under longstanding practices an attorney general, the nation's chief law enforcement officer, must carry out even those laws he
disagrees with as a matter of policy. He must also defend laws against constitutional attack so long as there are reasonable, or
nonfrivolous, grounds for doing so, a very low bar. Further, he must see to it that the arguments in behalf of a constitutionally
challenged law are advanced vigorously, even if he doesn't agree with those arguments. In 2009, in litigation over the
constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage for purposes of federal law as "the legal union between
one man and one woman as husband and wife," the Justice Department made a workmanlike defense of the statute. As the litigation
proceeded, however, the quality of the department's defense of the statute deteriorated in virtually every respect.
Holder backs reduced
sentences for some drug traffickers. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter
prison sentences for many nonviolent drug traffickers, saying the change would rein in runaway federal prison costs and create a fairer
criminal justice system.
The Editor says...
How many non-violent drug traffickers exist?
How 'My Brother's Keeper' Stands to
Destroy Already Bad Schools. Yes, Junior may disrupt the class, terrify his teacher, and otherwise prevent
classmates from learning, but everything possible should be done to keep him marching toward graduation. Diploma in
hand, he will — supposedly — join the workforce, eschew criminality, and pay his taxes. A
diploma is now a magic piece of paper. To this end, the Obama administration (particularly the DOJ) is doing
everything possible to lighten the punishment of young men of color. Obama himself has called for ending the "zero
tolerance" policy common in many schools since blacks disproportionately are guilty of infractions. Similarly, the Justice
Department now regularly sues school districts over racial inequalities in suspensions, expulsions, and other disciplinary measures.
It just assumes that all groups commit offenses in equal proportions, so disparities merely reflect racial discrimination.
The attorney general has also called for de-criminalizing low-level nonviolent active drug dealings.
Harry
Reid lets Obama, Eric Holder cover up IRS scandal. Nobody was surprised when Attorney General
Eric Holder decided the special prosecutor requested by Sen. Ted Cruz to investigate the IRS scandal isn't
needed. Why? Because Holder and his boss in the Oval Office refuse to make the same mistake that
led to Richard Nixon's undoing in the Watergate scandal. [...] President Obama and Holder have done a masterful
job of what Nixon could not — containing an official corruption investigation so that it never gets
to the full truth.
DOJ
Rejects Ted Cruz's Request for Special Prosecutor in IRS Scandal. The Holder Department of
Justice (DOJ) rejected a request from Texas Senator Ted Cruz to appoint a special prosecutor for the investigation
into the IRS scandal in a letter released this week. The DOJ argued that it saw no apparent conflict of
interest with its current investigator Barbara Bosserman — who has contributed thousands of dollars
to Obama and other Democrats according to recent Breitbart News reports.
Eric
Holder pressed for Lois Lerner interview details by Issa, Jordan. Republicans on the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee are pressing the Department of Justice for more information about contact government lawyers
reportedly made with Lois Lerner, the former IRS employee at the center of the scandal over the IRS's targeting of tea
party groups for special scrutiny. The fresh push from committee chairman Darrell Issa of California and committee
member Jim Jordan of Ohio is a signal the GOP will continue to pursue possible contempt charges against Ms. Lerner after
she invoked the fifth amendment right against self-incrimination on two occasions when called before the committee.
The
Department of Justice Isn't Rushing to Investigate the Administration. The Department of Justice has been asked
by the CIA to investigate Senate staffers, by the Senate to investigate the CIA, and by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to investigate the
IRS. The DOJ has replied "maybe," "maybe," and "no," respectively. Cruz had asked Justice to appoint a special
prosecutor to investigate whether or not the IRS had illegally targeted conservative groups when it began filtering tax-exempt
applicants by key words. The segregation of Tea Party and other conservative groups has spurred a nearly year-long
crusade by conservative politicians and activists searching for a link back to the White House.
DOJ
to Supreme Court: Killing Human Embryo in Womb is Not Abortion. The U.S. Justice Department is telling the
Supreme Court that killing a human embryo by preventing the embryo from implanting in his or her mother's uterus is not
an "abortion" and, thus, drugs that kill embryos this way are not "abortion-inducing" drugs. On Tuesday [3/25/2014],
the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby. The crux of the
administration's argument in this case is that when Christians form a corporation they give up the right to freely
exercise their religion — n.b. live according to their Christian beliefs — in the way
they run their business. It is in the context of this case, that the administration is making its argument that
killing an embryo seeking to implant in his or her mother's womb is not an abortion.
No
Justice Department Charges Against Ohio Woman Who Voted Six Times for Obama. Last week Al Sharpton embraced
convicted vote fraudster Melowese Richardson at a "voting rights" rally in Cincinnati. The United States Department
of Justice under Eric Holder has done nothing to Melowese Richardson 410 days after she admitted on camera that she
committed multiple federal felonies by voting six times for President Obama's reelection. Federal law makes it a
felony to vote more than once for President. In fact, 42 U.S.C. Section 1973i(e) subjects Richardson
to twenty-five years in federal prison for her six votes for Obama.
White
Teachers Thought They Were the Solution. Nobody works harder or spends more money to elect liberals
than teachers and their labor unions. But these same elected officials are now asking the one question that
teachers never thought they would hear: "Why are you so racist?" The question was posed last week
following a Department of Education study about the educational and disciplinary differences between white and
black students. "This critical report shows that racial disparities in school discipline policies are not
only well-documented among older students, but actually begin during preschool," said Attorney General Eric
Holder. "This Administration is moving aggressively to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in order to
ensure that all of our young people have equal educational opportunities."
Investigating
Justice Department Corruption While Giving Thousands to Obama Campaign. A key ethics investigator
at Eric Holder's Justice Department has contributed $6,100 to Barack Obama's election campaign even though she
has participated in high-profile investigations of political misconduct at the Department of Justice Office of
Professional Responsibility. Mary Aubry is an attorney in the Office of Professional Responsibility.
The office has investigated a wide range of politically sensitive matters including the dismissal of the New
Black Panther voter intimidation case, terrorist interrogation techniques, and the "investigation" into the
firing of United States attorneys who served at the pleasure of President Bush.
Holder
says feds will recognize Michigan gay marriages despite state decision. Attorney General Eric Holder said
Friday [3/28/2014] that the federal government will recognize about 300 same-sex marriages performed in Michigan before
a federal appeals court halted them, despite a decision by Michigan's governor not to recognize those unions. The
decision means federal benefits will be extended to those couples — including the ability to file taxes jointly, get
Social Security benefits for spouses and request legal immigration status for partners. "These families will be
eligible for all relevant federal benefits on the same terms as other same-sex marriages," Holder said in a statement.
DOJ
Rolls Out Transgender Sensitivity Training for Police. Following several years of "constructive dialog"
with the LGBT community, the U.S. Justice Department is now training law enforcement officers on how to better understand
and help the "transgender community." "It's clear that such training is as necessary as it is overdue," Associate
Attorney General Tony West told a gathering at the Justice Department on Thursday [3/27/2014], as DOJ's Community
Relations Service kicked off its new "transgender law enforcement cultural professionalism training."
Convicted
Georgia Abortionist Has Interesting Landlord: Wife of the U.S. Attorney General. Georgia-based
abortionist Tyrone Cecil Malloy is headed for prison. A judge sentenced Malloy to four years in prison
and six years probation on two counts of Medicaid fraud. The judge will hold a restitution hearing at a
later date to determine the exact amount of restitution Dr. Malloy will be ordered to pay the Georgia Department
of Community Health. Steven Ertelt of Lifenews.com insists this conviction has a national-media angle:
Malloy's abortion clinic sits in a building owned by Dr. Sharon Malone, the obstetrician and wife of Attorney
General Eric Holder, or "The First Lady of Justice," as they call her at Essence magazine.
Congress,
watchdogs stonewalled in probes of administration. The Obama administration has made it increasingly difficult
for Congress and inspectors general to uncover government misdeeds and access information in various agencies, according
to recent congressional testimony and reports. On Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Michael E.
Horowitz testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing that Attorney General Eric Holder stonewalled
his investigation of the "Operation Fast and Furious" gunwalking scandal. Mr. Horowitz also said his office has
been stymied in other investigations of the Justice Department because of the Obama administration's interpretation of
access laws, which essentially requires investigators to ask department heads for permission to investigate them.
Eric
Holder defends using Justice Department airplane for 27 personal trips. Attorney General Eric
Holder disputed a Government Accountability Office report on his use of Justice Department airplanes for
personal trips, saying it overstated the number of trips he took and failed to recognize that some trips
were job-related. "My staff keeps telling me to take it easy, you know, well, this is one that gets
me," Holder told Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing.
'You
don't want to go there': Holder tangles with GOP rep at hearing. The attorney general, one of the
longest-serving and most controversial members of the Obama Cabinet, often has tense encounters with Republicans
during congressional hearings. The GOP-led House voted in 2012 to hold him in contempt for failing to provide
key information on Operation Fast and Furious. That case is still being fought in the courts.
Holder: We Want to Explore
Gun Tracking Bracelets. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday [4/4/2014] that gun tracking bracelets
are something the Justice Department (DOJ) wants to "explore" as part of its gun control efforts. When discussing
gun violence prevention programs within the DOJ, Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee that his agency is
looking into technological innovations.
Holder
claims 'vast amount' of discretion in enforcing federal laws. Attorney General Eric Holder
maintained Tuesday that he has a "vast amount" of discretion in how the Justice Department prosecutes federal
law. Holder's remarks, during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, came in response to GOP
accusations that he is flouting the law with his department's positions on marijuana legalization, criminal
sentencing and a contentious provision of the president's signature healthcare law.
Eric
Holder: ATF Planning to Use Drones. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Tuesday [4/8/2014] that the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was in the process of looking at the use of domestic drones.
Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, questioned Holder during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, asking the Attorney General
if he believed if the Federal Aviation Administration or Congress should regulate of drone use.
Texas congressman tells Attorney General Eric Holder he belongs 'in
jail'. Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold refused to ask Holder — the hearing's sole
witness — any questions, instead slamming him for defying congressional document subpoenas and
ignoring a criminal contempt citation the House of Representatives lodged against him nearly two years ago.
"I'm committed to maintaining the constitutional balance of power and the authority that this legislative
branch has," Farenthold said, "and I just don't think it's appropriate that Mr. Holder be here."
"If an American citizen had not complied with one of the Justice Department's subpoenas, they would
be in jail and not sitting here in front of me testifying."
Eric
Holder Proposes Bracelets For Gun Owners, Fingerprint Readers For Guns. Eric Holder, the
Attorney General and unindicted co-conspirator in the death of at least one Border Patrol agent and
hundreds of innocent Mexican civilians, appeared before a House Appropriations subcommittee last Friday
[4/4/2014] and waxed philosophical on the next step in the administration's war against the Bill of Rights.
[...] Other alleged "smart gun" technologies include implanting a GPS transmitter or RFID chip in each firearm.
While this does nothing to enhance the safety of anyone, it does permit law enforcement agencies to know where
weapons are located, at least so long as the batteries work, and allows citizens carrying weapons legally
to be targeted for harassment by an increasingly arbitrary and brutal law enforcement community.
Boehner blasts Eric Holder for claiming he and Obama are treated differently
because they are black. House Speaker John Boehner blasted Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday for
suggesting that Republicans only attack him because he's black. 'There is no issue of race here,' he told a reporter
during his weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill. Holder went off-script Wednesday during a speech to Al Sharpton's
National Action Network, slammed Republicans for consistently attacking him and Barack Obama because they are the first
African-Americans to hold their jobs. 'What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?'
he said, alluding to his status as the only African-American ever to hold that post.
Obama's politicized,
lawless executive branch. Obama's conduct concerning Obamacare alone would be enough to get the impeachment
wheels rolling for any other president. His flagrant, deliberate lies regarding almost every aspect of that horrible law
and his defiant refusal to accept any accountability for it seem unprecedented to me. Yes, Bill Clinton looked us in
the face and denied his adulterous tryst with Monica Lewinsky, but Obama's lies involve the nation's health care system
and affect virtually every American.
Boehner:
Race 'no issue' with Holder. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday said there was "no issue of race" in the
way House Republicans have treated President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. A day after Holder said the two leaders
had faced "ugly and divisive adversity" from Congress, Boehner said, "There is no issue of race here" at a Capitol press conference.
The attorney general had departed from his prepared remarks before the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network on Wednesday to
accuse the House GOP of treating him and Obama differently during the last five years.
Ted Cruz: Congress Should Impeach Eric Holder If He Takes No Action on IRS Targeting
Scandal. On the day the House Oversight Committee held Lois Lerner in contempt, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Congress
should impeach Attorney General Eric Holder if he does not indict those like Lerner for their roles in the IRS's targeting of
conservative groups. In a Thursday appearance on Sean Hannity's radio program, Cruz said Holder should be impeached for
"defying Congress and the rule of law."
Man Up, Mr. Holder. [Scroll
down] As for Holder's Woe Is Me portrayal of his tenure as attorney general, I'd point him (for starters) to Alberto
Gonzales and Edwin Meese. Both were treated viciously by Democrats and (unlike Holder) by many in the press.
While I'm at it, let me add this point: Mr. Holder is part of an administration notable for its partisanship, divisive
rhetoric, ugliness, and polarization.
A Divisive Attorney
General. Attorney General Eric Holder must be suffering from a sort of amnesia. He is upset at supposed
divisiveness and rudeness directed at him when testifying before Congress, and suggests not too subtly that he and President
Obama have been accorded inordinately harsh treatment (fill in the blanks why). Aside from the fact that he seemed to
have relished the combat with Representative Gohmert in quite unprofessional tones, he seems to forget what former attorney
general Alberto Gonzales once endured both in the liberal media and before Democrats in Congress, not to mention the films,
comic routines, novels, and op-eds that focused on the idea of assassinating President George W. Bush, a shameful chapter
in our history, which I think Eric Holder was largely mum about at the time.
Rep. Frank Wolf to
Withhold Funds from Lawless Eric Holder. At last, one House Republican is ready to use the Constitutional power of
the purse to reign in Attorney General Eric Holder's lawlessness. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Virginia), chairman of the Appropriations
subcommittee that oversees Eric Holder's Justice Department will utilize the power of the purse to withhold funds from the Justice
Department. Eric Holder has been lobbying the Republican controlled House for a larger budget. Wolf says he will withhold
$1,000,000 for every instance of failure for Eric Holder to respond to Wolf's demands for information. The Constitution vests
the House of Representatives with the power of the purse, an enormously effective tool for reigning in abuses by the executive branch.
If the House does not allocate money to Obama's Justice Department, then Holder cannot function.
Federal
judge slams Holder for 'unprecedented instruction' he had 'no authority to establish'. A federal judge criticized
Attorney General Eric Holder for directing prosecutors to pursue shorter prison sentences for drug crimes before new guidelines
for sentencing had been approved. The U.S. Sentencing Commission approved the reduced sentences for federal drug trafficking
offenses on Thursday [4/10/2014]. Holder endorsed the move last month, and the Justice Department instructed prosecutors not
to object if defendants sought the newly-proposed guidelines during sentencing. The Justice Department's eagerness to apply
more lenient sentencing before it had been approved through the appropriate channels frustrated commission member Judge
William H. Pryor Jr., despite his support for the reform.
Cruz:
Holder Should Be Impeached For 'Defying Congress And The Rule Of Law' In IRS Scandal. Sen. Ted Cruz said
Attorney General Eric Holder should be impeached if he doesn't indict former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner,
who is linked to the agency's targeting of conservative groups. Speaking on Sean Hannity's radio program Thursday,
the Texas Republican labeled Holder the "most partisan attorney general the country has ever had," and added that Holder
should be impeached for "defying Congress and the rule of law." Cruz cited the attorney general's refusal to indict
anyone in the months since the inspector general found that conservative and Tea Party groups were singled out for tax purposes.
Holder
bypasses U.S. Sentencing Commission in mandatory minimums, angers U.S. Attorneys. Attorney General Eric Holder
has infuriated U.S. Assistant Attorneys by not waiting for the U.S. Sentencing Commission to recommend reductions of sentencing
guidelines for drug offenders and pushing them to prosecute based on his new guidelines. "We do not join with others who
regard our federal justice system as 'broken' or in need of major reconstruction," the National Association of U.S. Assistant
Attorneys said in a letter to Mr. Holder in January. "Instead we consider the current federal mandatory minimum sentence
framework well constructed and worth preserving."
Actually,
Eric Holder, Other AGs Have Faced 'That Kind of Treatment'. Holder's notion that past attorneys general have escaped
widespread criticism, or that criticism directed toward him is solely race-based, overlooks incidents of those before him, including
one of his most recent predecessors. As Mediaite's Noah Rothman points out, Bush-era attorney general Alberto Gonzales faced
calls for his impeachment during his time in the office. In 2007, seven Democratic representatives, including some still in
Congress, urged the House Judiciary Committee to investigate fully whether sufficient grounds existed for the House of Representatives
to impeach Gonzales for "high crimes and misdemeanors."
Eric Holder
strays from planned remarks. Attorney General Eric Holder strayed from prepared remarks to slam the way
he was "treated" by a House committee the day before, calling it evidence of "ugly and divisive" civil rights challenges
facing him and President Barack Obama. Speaking to the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network at its annual
convention in New York on Wednesday, Holder talked about the state of civil rights today and brought up a House committee
hearing Tuesday that grew contentious, according to video from Mediaite and reports from outlets including Capital New York.
Key Lawyer in DOJ Office Charging Dinesh D'Souza is Obama Campaign Donor. If you suspect that politics might
have played a role in the Justice Department bringing charges against conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, consider the
financial support to Barack Obama from a key DOJ lawyer in the U.S. Attorney's office that filed the charges. Each
U.S. Attorney's office has a lone District Election Officer ("DEO"). The DEO is the singular point person in each
U.S. Attorney office for any matter related to an election or campaign finance. The U.S. Attorney's office in the
Southern District of New York is the office which brought the campaign finance charges against D'Souza.
Eric
Holder's contempt for the American people. In what some have referred to as "fireworks" during a House
hearing with Attorney General Eric H. Holder, one of the more important revelations was the exposure of exactly
how much literal contempt Mr. Holder actually holds for the American people. [...] It's been obvious for quite some
time that the Obama administration has no respect for how our system works or for the representatives of the people.
President Obama has himself noted, sadly, that the system the Founders designed restrains him from doing what he
would like to. Yet watching this unfold live on C-SPAN, I was shocked to see how blatant Mr. Holder was
in his arrogance and lack of respect.
Democrat Center Folds.
Democrats hope to retain control of the Senate and recapture the House by driving every possible favored bloc to the
polls and coffers — union members, single women, blacks, Jews, green energy advocates, and wealthy
environmentalists. What is ignored is that a shred of opposition can take advantage of the far left sweep
of the party to exploit serious differences between these voting blocs. The Black vote is top on their list.
To that end, Attorney General Holder and the president have been playing the race card so much you can tell from
the worn back of the card where it is in the deck.
For Attorney
General Eric Holder, Justice is for Democrats only. Now in his sixth year as attorney general, Holder has
increasingly tilted the department in an ideological direction. It's one thing to emphasize President Obama's legal
priorities. It's quite another to decide not to enforce certain federal laws — such as the ban on marijuana — or urge state attorney generals to refuse to defend local laws on same-sex marriage. Legal
changes are achieved through legislation, not through a sudden whim not to enforce them. No other attorney general has
acted in this manner. Holder clearly believes he has the inherent power to politicize his department.
Eric
Holder and the Race Card: The issue the media can't resist. When Eric Holder became attorney general
in 2009, he declared that when it comes to discussing race, we have become "a nation of cowards." Now
there's plenty of discussion of race, some of it swirling around Holder himself. In recent days, conservative
critics have accused Holder of playing the race card to deflect criticism — while his liberal allies
believe some of that criticism is racially motivated. It reflects a classic cultural divide in this country
and in the media establishment.
Holder:
Comments About My Treatment Were About 'Civility,' Not Racism. Attorney General Eric
Holder spoke out last week on his treatment by Congress, with the implication that it may have to do
with his race. However, Holder cleared up to The Huffington Post that his comments were not about
race, they were meant to reflect the current level of partisan "incivility" in Washington. The
media buzzed for days about whether Holder played the race card, but the attorney general explained
HuffPost last Friday, "I didn't say there was a racial component. I was very careful not to say that."
Lax
Immigration Enforcement Exerts Magnetic Pull. Ever since 2010, when President Obama first
called for "comprehensive immigration reform," meaning amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants,
and then followed up in 2011 with orders to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to use "prosecutorial
discretion" in apprehending illegals, a great wave of immigration has built.
The
Racist, Discriminating Democratic Party. Attorney General Eric Holder [...] claimed at
a forum on civil rights that the past five years in Washington have been marked by "unprecedented,
unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity." "If you don't believe that ... you look at the way the
attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee." The reality is
that Holder was treated appropriately — as he is inept and this administration is constantly lying
to the public. Americans indeed should know no color when inept people govern; they should be
challenged and condemned. It is unfair to assert "racism" when caught lying and cheating as a way to
defend yourself.
Sen. Ted Cruz:
'Impeach Eric Holder'. Congress should impeach Eric Holder, says Senator Ted Cruz. In
an interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday, Cruz said that Holder is "defying Congress and "defying
the rule of law." "It is unfortunate that Eric Holder has been the most partisan attorney general
this country has ever had," Cruz said, before pointing out that both Obama and Holder previously
said they were outraged by the Obama IRS's illegal and unconstitutional targeting of American
citizens for their political beliefs, and that Obama himself promised to "get to the bottom of it"
and work with Congress "hand-in-hand." Yet, as Cruz states, no one has been held accountable
in the eight months since those statements were made.
GOP
writes legislation to deny AG Holder his salary. A Republican congressman has introduced a bill
that would stop government paychecks for officials who have been found in contempt of Congress — a
move that seems designed in the short term to go after Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
Mr. Holder has refused to cooperate with House Republicans' probe into the Fast & Furious gun-walking
operation, and the House has voted to find him in contempt. Mr. Holder is challenging that vote in
court. Rep. Blake Farenthold, a Texas Republican who publicly excoriated Mr. Holder at a hearing last
week, introduced the legislation just before Congress went on vacation, and announced it Tuesday [4/15/2014].
The New Liberal
Racism. Last week we witnessed repeated efforts by Democrats to polarize the country
along racial lines. Eric Holder, speaking at Al Sharpton's conference, implied that he and the
President are being treated harshly because they are black. [...] This is more than election year
politics. It is worse than a crass attempt to manipulate black voters with fear of Republicans.
Obama's
Whistling Lap Dog. Now, bear in mind the audience. The National Action Network is Al
Sharpton's plaything, often providing the shock troops Sharpton needs for rent-a-mob protests, shakedown
operations, and MSNBC photo ops. Holder didn't say criticism of him and Obama is racially motivated,
but the notion the audience (or the media) would take it any other way doesn't pass the laugh test.
Holder's hypocrisy is stunning given that he once famously chastised Americans as being "cowards" for
not talking openly about race. Who's the coward now?
Cornyn Presses
Holder on Gun Comments. Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) is demanding answers from
Attorney General Eric Holder on the Justice Department's pursuit of "smart gun" technology, warning
that the government could require all gun owners to wear biometric bracelets to operate their
firearms. Cornyn sent a letter to the attorney general on Wednesday [4/16/2014] in response to
remarks he made in testimony before a House subcommittee earlier this month, which were first reported by
the Washington Free Beacon. Holder said his agency is "exploring" technology to make guns "more
safe." "By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet
or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession
of the weapon," he said.
Obama's thug administration. One of
the hallmarks of the Obama administration is that it is among the most corrupt administrations in living memory.
[...] Among the most corrupt functionaries of the Obama regime is Attorney General Eric Holder, who appears to be Obama's
alter ego and enforcer. From day one he let America know that he held most of its citizens in contempt by proclaiming
that the American people were afraid of having an honest discussion about race. Truth is Holder's definition of an
"honest discussion" consists of lecturing white Americans about their inherent racism and selectively prosecuting
crimes according to the race of the accused.
Eric
Holder wants $15M to train against active shooters. In wake of two mass shootings this
month, Attorney General Eric Holder urged Congress Tuesday to authorize $15 million for training
state and local law enforcement officers to confront so-called active shooters.
The Editor says...
Mr. Holder doesn't have $15 million to give away. All he can do is "urge" the Congress to spend money.
Holder's
undermining of the law deserving of contempt. No attorney general of the United States is entitled,
for any reason, to escape scrutiny of Congress, period. Is the attorney general really mounting a defense
to his contempt charges on the basis that Congress is racist and that he need not respond to legal prerogatives
they lawfully exercise? Where would that wild notion put us as a country? How would any attorney
general hiding behind this kind of defense ever be held accountable? Does this mean, for example, whenever
this attorney general is questioned for noncompliance with congressional subpoenas — particularly in
a case grave enough to earn him criminal and civil contempt citations — an acceptable defense shall be
to accuse the questioner of racism? Is this not a transparent deflection?
Holder:
U.S. To Make More Convicts Eligible for Presidential Clemency. The Obama Administration continued
its push to reduce the number of prisoners serving long sentences as a result of the nation's federal drug laws
on Monday [4/21/2014] with an announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder describing new rules that would expand
the pool of convicts eligible to apply for presidential clemency. In a video released by the Department of
Justice, Holder said they will expand the existing criteria government attorneys use to consider which offenders
may be eligible for clemency. Later this week Deputy Attorney General James Cole will announce the new
criteria, which Holder expects will lead thousands to apply to receive reduced sentences.
DOJ
announces clemency overhaul, allows release for some after 10 years. The Justice Department
moved Wednesday [4/23/2014] to significantly expand the number of people eligible for clemency, issuing new
guidelines allowing certain prisoners who already have served at least 10 years behind bars to apply for
release. The initiative is part of a broader Obama administration effort to ease sentences for nonviolent
drug offenders. Deputy Attorney General James Cole outlined the changes, which include six separate criteria
inmates must meet to be eligible, on Wednesday morning.
Holder
cancels speech, appearance in OKC amid angry protests. Attorney General Eric Holder canceled his appearance
before the Oklahoma City Police Department's graduating cadet class Thursday [4/24/2014] amid angry protests
over his scheduled visit. [...] Mr. Holder's scheduled visit to Oklahoma City drew the criticism of several
conservative lawmakers who planned the protest anticipating his arrival, including state Rep. Paul Wesselhoft,
Moore Republican, who has stated he believes that Mr. Holder should be impeached.
Attorney General Eric Holder cancels police academy graduation
speech. A Department of Justice official told MailOnline on Thursday [4/24/2014] that looming
protests by state lawmakers and a need to protect Attorney General Eric Holder's image among law enforcement
officers caused him to pull out of a planned speech in Oklahoma City. Holder's public schedule shows
that he was to 'deliver remarks at the Oklahoma City Police Department's 130th police academy graduation
ceremony.' That address didn't occur, however. Seven Oklahoma legislators were preparing to
lead a crowd of hundreds in protests across the street, most calling for Holder's impeachment.
Protests
force Holder, Michelle Obama to cancel speeches; What's going on? You might wonder why Obama's
attorney general, who refuses to provide so many 'Fast and Furious' documents to Congress, can instead find
the time to fly halfway across the country to address a graduating class of Oklahoma City police cadets.
You wouldn't be alone in such wonderment. Turns out, Holder decided those new police officers weren't
all that important after all. When word got out about Holder's Thursday speech, hundreds of opponents
set a downtown protest, including Rep. James Lankford.
Holder plans to remain as attorney general through midterm
elections. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to stay in his job through the
fall midterm elections but he will not commit beyond the end of the year, according to Justice Department
officials familiar with his plans. After Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
announced her resignation earlier this month, some Washington insiders speculated that Holder would
resign before the midterm elections, because it would be more difficult to confirm a new attorney
general if the Democrats lost control of the Senate.
U.S.
Justice Department to collect, study arrest data for racial bias. Later this year, a
$4.75 million federal grant will be awarded to recipients who compete for the funds to work with
their local law enforcement to analyze arrest data and find ways to reduce any biases they find,
particularly toward young minority men.
DOJ
to spend $4.75M studying race. The Justice Department will spend $4.75 million to
create a center to collect racial data on police stops, searches and arrests in an effort to shine a
light on a perceived bias against minorities. [...] In a video statement issued Monday afternoon [4/28/2014],
Holder pointed to a recent study finding that roughly half of all black men in the United States are
arrested at least once by age 23. The same study found that black men were six times more
likely to be arrested than white men in 2012.
Holder,
Justice Department to collect police data to evaluate racial bias. The Department of Justice will
begin collecting law-enforcement data on stops, searches and arrests made in some U.S. cities to evaluate racial
discrimination, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a video statement Monday [4/28/2014]. Mr. Holder
said this initiative, funded by a $4.75 million federal grant, will help level the playing field for men
of color and improve the relationship between African-Americans and the law-enforcement community.
Half of African-American men have been arrested at least once by age 23, and overall, black men were
six times more likely to be imprisoned than white men in 2012, Mr. Holder said.
The Editor says...
If blacks are "six times more likely to be imprisoned than white men" it's either the result of a nationwide
conspiracy that involves every cop, every District Attorney, every judge and every jury in the country, or it
could be because, on a per capita basis, blacks commit six time as much crime as whites.
(Sources:
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] ) Mystery solved. Where
do I collect the $4.75 million dollars?
Eric
Holder Targets Banks: 'No Such Thing as Too Big to Jail'. On Monday, Attorney General
Eric Holder announced he is willing to punish financial institutions for criminal practices in a
video posted to the Justice Department website. "I intend to reaffirm the principle that no
individual or entity that does harm to our economy is ever above the law," Holder said.
"There is no such thing as 'too big to jail.'"
AG Holder: "No
such thing as too big to jail". In video remarks released Monday on the Justice
Department's website, he said no company is immune from prosecution regardless of its size. "There
is no such thing as too big to jail." Holder also said the Justice Department is pursuing several
"important investigations" into corporate wrongdoing and hinted the agency would take action in the
"coming weeks and months."
Holder:
US should worry about discrimination, not racist rants. Americans should be more
worried about policies that discriminate against minorities than racist rants that grab media
attention, Attorney General Eric Holder said Saturday. In a commencement speech at Baltimore's
Morgan State University, he warned of subtler forms of racism — including harsher prison sentences
for minorities and voter-ID laws that threaten to keep them from the polls.
The Obama
Administration's Ethics Problem. Eric Holder is the first attorney general to have been held in contempt of
Congress. Aside from his divisive language (he called America "a nation of cowards" and referred to African Americans as
"my people"), Holder always seems to find himself at the center of scandals. He permitted the federal monitoring of Associated
Press journalists. He green-lighted the "Fast and Furious" gun-running scam. He has failed to bring to account rogue IRS
officials. Holder is the most morally compromised attorney general since Nixon appointee John Mitchell.
Eric
Holder Tells Graduates to Forget Sterling, Voter ID a Bigger Threat. U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder told graduates in Maryland that they should ignore "hateful rants" like that
from Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Holder said that voter ID and "zero tolerance" policies in
schools are worse on minorities than anything Sterling could have done. Speaking before 850
graduates at Baltimore's Morgan State University on Saturday, May 17, Holder warned students
not to get caught up in the hype of "intolerant public statements," but to be more worried about the
racism inherent in the U.S.A. "...policies that disenfranchise specific groups are more
pernicious than hateful rants," Holder told the students.
Jim
Crow alive and well in Eric Holder's Justice Department. Jim Crow is now making a
huge comeback, thanks to the identity politics so common among liberals, especially on college
campuses. As PJ Media columnist and former U.S. Department of Justice civil rights attorney
J. Christian Adams notes, a federal court recently struck down a law in the Commonwealth of Northern
Mariana Islands that allowed only people of "Northern Mariana descent" to vote on constitutional
referendums. In Guam, the new Jim Crow appears in a law that allows voter registration only by
those with ancestors living there prior to 1950, thus effectively limiting the ballot to
individuals descended from the Chamorro people.
House
votes to defund Justice Dept. program that targeted legitimate gun dealers. The House of Representatives
passed an amendment Thursday to stop all federal funding to be used for the Department of Justice's Operation Choke
Point, an anti-fraud operation that was found to be cutting off legitimate businesses from their banking lines.
"This is a major victory for consumers, law-abiding businesses, and anyone who believes in due process and restraint
of government encroachment," said the Community Financial Services Association of America, a trade group opposed to the
operation, in a statement Friday. "Additionally, our banking system benefits as it will not be put in the position
to police customers or make judgments about the political popularity of businesses and industries."
Arizona
rep. calls for Eric Holder's impeachment over immigration concerns. U.S. Rep. Paul
Gosar (R-Ariz.) said Holder is breaking the law. Gosar has joined a growing number of congressmen
calling for the impeachment of Holder. "They're processing a lot of these immigrants in Texas
and shipping them here," he said. "It's mind-defying. It's a waste of resources and complicit with
the smuggling of illegal immigrants across state lines."
5
Obama Officials Who Lied, Then Lied About Lying. Attorney General Eric Holder. In
2013, Holder testified before Congress that he would not prosecute any reporter under the Espionage
Act of 1917. "In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material," he
stated, "this is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise
policy." Except that Holder himself personally approved an application for a warrant on Fox News's
James Rosen under the auspices of the Espionage Act.
Review: Holder Is 'Obama's
Enforcer' of Racialist, Lawless DOJ Agenda. [T]he new book Obama's Enforcer by
Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund documents the rank lawlessness that has saturated Eric Holder's
Justice Department, and thus, the Obama presidency. [...] The authors catalog Holder as an enforcer
for a progressive gang spanning across all agencies of the federal government. Obama's enforcer has
successfully turned the power and prestige of the Justice Department into a radicalized agency for
fundamental change. Holder is the enforcer that has used his power to turn America away from
post-racial possibilities and toward race-obsessed legal policies. According to the authors, Holder
is the single most important change agent inside the single most important change agency. The
book also covers territory never before touched — namely, why is Holder so radicalized?
Holder:
Boy Scouts gay ban preserves worst stereotypes. Taking aim at the Boy Scouts of
America's continuing ban on gay adult leaders, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday [6/10/2014] that the
prohibition perpetuates "the worst kind of stereotypes." "It's a relic of an age of prejudice and
insufficient understanding, the attorney general said Tuesday evening to Lambda Legal, an
advocacy group for LGBT rights.
Attorney
General Eric Holder blasts Boy Scouts for anti-gay discrimination. Attorney General
Eric Holder said Tuesday that the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America perpetuates "the worst
stereotypes" by barring gay people from becoming Scout leaders. "The continuation of a policy
that discriminates against gay adult leaders — by an iconic American institution —
only preserves and perpetuates the worst kind of stereotypes," Holder said in a speech to the gay
civil rights group Lambda Legal in Washington.
Obama
Justice Department Pushes to Target "Thought Crime". Attorney General Eric Holder has
announced that the Justice Department will be utilizing a program originally designed to prevent
domestic threats to the United States. The program will label as threats individuals the government
has deemed anti-government or racially prejudiced, paving the way to targeting political dissenters.
House Bill to Impeach
Eric Holder Now Has 26 Co-Sponsors. It might be time for Eric Holder to get his
resume ready and start looking for other employment. Holder might be on the brink of making
history, but not in a good way, as a House bill calling for his impeachment is starting to gain
massive support in Congress, which could make him the first Attorney General to be removed from
office. Many conservatives are ready to give Holder the boot for breaking the law and attempting
to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution by using information from the IRS to prosecute
people for their political beliefs.
Holder:
If Gay Adults Are Fit for Military Service, They re Fit to Lead Boy Scouts. The
Attorney General of the United States told a homosexual advocacy group on Tuesday night that the
Boy Scouts of America "preserves and perpetuates the worst kind of stereotypes" by refusing to
allow homosexuals to serve as Boy Scout troop leaders. "Today, courageous lesbian, gay, and
bisexual individuals routinely put their lives on the line as members of America's armed services,"
Holder told Lambda Legal Tuesday night [6/10/2014]. "And if these men and women are fit for military
service, then surely they are fit to mentor, to teach, and to serve as role models for the leaders
of future generations."
Rep.
Paul Gosar's crusade: Impeach Eric Holder. The man who led the charge to have Eric H.
Holder Jr. held in contempt of Congress is on a new crusade: to impeach the nation's first black
attorney general. "There's a total disregard for the rule of law," Rep. Paul A. Gosar, Arizona
Republican, told The Washington Times. "We can't sit idly by here as we see the Constitution and
justice being defamed right and left at the whim of the attorney general."
Eric Holder's DOJ Sets Up 'Terrorism Committee'
to Investigate 'Anti-Government' Extremism. It is not a controversial claim to state that Attorney General Eric
Holder has politicized the Department of Justice. In the past, this politicization has amounted to stonewalling, monitoring
journalists, or dropping ideologically inconvenient cases. But now the Department of Justice is shifting gears into overdrive
and is intent on finding the roots of "anti-government" animus (as if it's a condition of citizenship to support the government
no matter what).
How Eric Holder
Has Destroyed the Justice Department's Reputation. I don't know who the next U.S.
attorney general will be, but I know I pity that person. Restoring the Justice Department's
reputation in the wake of Eric H. Holder Jr.'s tenure will take a lot of work. You can find out
just how big a task it will be in "Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department," a new book
by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky. Even at a relatively slim 217 pages, it's
quite a bill of indictment.
Welcome
To The Executive Dictatorship. There is almost nothing the president of the United
States cannot do. This week, we found out President Barack Obama's IRS not only targeted
conservative nonprofit applicants with impunity but then destroyed the emails that could have
illuminated the process behind such targeting. Meanwhile, the attorney general — the
executive officer charged with fighting government criminality — continues to stonewall
an independent prosecutor, maintaining along with his boss that there is not a "smidgen of
corruption" in the IRS.
The
Justice Department Unleashes A Godzilla On Business. After she destroyed Arthur Andersen
in a flawed and subsequently overturned prosecution, the Senate has confirmed Leslie Caldwell to lead
the DOJ's criminal division, giving her a mandate for even more mayhem. [...] It's not just that the
woman has a record of doing anything for a conviction — including concealing exculpatory
evidence, as her task force did in the Enron case. She's also a political animal who specializes
in high-profile cases and handles political pressure with no sweat.
Smoking
Gun Trail To White House. How can the DOJ conduct an investigation into unlawful
aspects of the IRS targeting of specific 501(c)(4) groups, when the DOJ is the initiating body for
the illegality they are seeking to investigate?
The
'Most Dangerous Man In The Obama Administration'. In his new book, Obama's
Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department (co-written with John Fund), Hans von Spakovsky
reveals how our attorney general has turned America's Department of Justice into "a politicized
hotbed of left-wing legal activism." The author revealed to Human Events the magnitude of
Holder's offenses highlighted in his book, offenses which should be an alarming wake-up call to
every American:
Take
Lessons From America's Great Generals in Fighting Obama Lawlessness. There is little
question that President Obama is waging total war against the rule of law in America. He uses
"Executive Authority" to bypass Congress in making unilateral decisions by decree. He colludes with
Democrats in the Senate to create gridlock, providing him more opportunity to justify his unilateral
actions. He makes [now illegal] "recess appointments" to stack key government agencies with
high-level bureaucrats to institutionalize his Big Government agenda. He tampers with congressional
investigations into the gross misconduct of his federal employees through political pressure and
manipulation. Those under him destroy evidence. And, to ensure immunity from legal consequences for
his unconstitutional activities, he has compromised the Department of Justice — turning
Attorney General Eric Holder into his Enabler-in-Chief.
The
Dictatorship Will Begin with Eric Holder. The easiest way to dissolve our republic
will be through prosecutorial discretion. And this Department of Justice seems to pretty much
understand this concept.
Eric
Holder's long losing record before the Supreme Court. If Eric Holder were a baseball
player, he'd have been benched long ago — if not kicked off the team. His batting average
before the Supreme Court is abysmal, losing again and again in his efforts to undermine the
Constitution. This term featured four big strike downs.
The Editor says...
I would think it would be more appropriate to blame the Solicitor General, not the Attorney General,
if there has been a string of defeats at the Supreme Court.
To Impeach Holder.
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and a group of House lawmakers are building a case for impeaching
Attorney General Eric Holder. [...] Cruz had made such comments before, but this speech was
different. He spent 40 minutes laying out the case for Holder's impeachment — spending
the bulk of that time on the IRS scandal, but also citing the Justice Department's failure to enforce various
laws, the department's Operation Fast and Furious, and Holder's role in the administration obtaining journalists'
phone records. Cruz demanded that Holder appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS scandal.
"If [Holder] refuses, Senator Cruz will support measures to move forward with his impeachment," a Cruz aide told NRO.
Why isn't
the LEFT freaking out about Eric Holder still having a job? [Here is] why Eric Holder
still has a job: it's because his job is to protect Barack Obama until the man is safely out of
office. The Attorney General isn't working for the country: he's working for one specific
individual. So far, yes, so trite — but consider this for a moment: Eric Holder isn't
working for the Left, either. And they're getting hammered over Holder's misplaced loyalty, too.
Holder
Equates 'Vehemence' of Opposition to Obama with 'Racial Animus'. Attorney General Eric
Holder told ABC News that "vehemence" in opposing the president and his policies is indicative of
racism. [...] It takes a truly self-absorbed man to think that the level of emotion engendered by
opposition to public policies is somehow indicative of race hatred. But from Holder's point of view,
it makes perfect sense. Obviously, the president's policies are good for the country. Obviously, the
only reason to oppose them is because you don't like the president's race. Obviously, the madder you
are at the president, the bigger the racist you are.
Words
are not racist, actions are. In reality it is Eric Holder who is the coward as he
hides behind the racial fires he deliberately stokes. [...] Holder is stoking the racial fires at a
time when his pal President Obama is under fire from all sides for his own bad policies and mounting
failures. He can't cite specifics because that's not his goal. If there were cases worth
charging then charge under existing law.
Eric
Holder, Media-Spoiled Brat. Attorney General Eric Holder granted an exclusive
interview to ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" from London, where he was portrayed by ABC
as deeply concerned about the global terrorist threat. What stands out from this very rare
session — Holder hasn't been on Sunday network television in four years — is
that Holder pulled out the oldest, lamest card in the Obama political deck: President Barack
Obama and he are opposed by people who should be suspected of racism.
Department
of Justice: We Heard About IRS Missing Emails On The News. James Cole, deputy attorney
general in the Department of Justice, testified Thursday [7/17/2014] that the DOJ heard about the destruction
of IRS officials' emails in the news, even though DOJ has formally been investigating the IRS for more
than a year. "I think we learned about it after that, from press accounts," Cole told House
Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan at a hearing Thursday on the
DOJ's response to the wave of computer crashes at the IRS that wiped out seven different employees'
hard drives.
Government
corruption on the rampage. The Obama administration is arguably the most corrupt
administration in U.S. history. Corruption destroys civil society and economic growth by undermining
the rule of law and protection of private property. Corruption takes many forms, from the simple
payment to a government official for a favor, to the failure of government employees to do what they
are paid to do, to gross abuse of power. The president and his senior officials swear to uphold the
Constitution and the law — which means following the law as written, and not as they wish
it were written. The failure to apply equal justice to all citizens is a major form of corruption
and has been blatant in Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s "Justice Department."
Crimes by members or friends of the administration are ignored — just consider the lack of
action against employees of the Internal Revenue Service who obviously broke the law in many cases.
The
IRS Scandal and the Politicization of Justice. If you want a good illustration of how Attorney General Eric
Holder has politicized the Justice Department and its prosecutorial decision-making, all you have to do is look at what
Justice has not done in just one part of the IRS scandal. Despite its agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by
the National Organization for Marriage against the IRS for the illegal disclosure of confidential tax information, it
has not prosecuted any of the individuals or organizations who illegally disclosed and published that information.
DOJ
Sued for Records of Obama's Effort to Grant Mass Clemency to Criminals. At first, the
administration tried negotiating with Congress. When that failed, Obama simply nullified the law and
implemented "deferred action" (amnesty) for young illegal aliens and virtually anyone else who had
made it across the border and hadn't gotten caught for doing something else terribly criminal.
Congress, including a complicit Republican leadership, watched, complained a little bit, but did
little under their constitutional powers to uphold the rule of law. We have seen the results, as
tens of thousands of illegals are streaming across the border, bringing crime, chaos, and disease.
As if the situation at the border is not dangerous enough on its own, now the Obama Department of
Justice wants to bust through prison walls and release tens of thousands of drug criminals onto the
streets. And what's the explanation? Drug laws are "unjust" and "outdated."
Immigrant
groups sue Holder over deportations. A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing the government to halt
deportation proceedings for children that crossed the Southwest border after fleeing violence in their native El Salvador
and Guatemala. Half a dozen children are listed as plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit naming Attorney General Eric
Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell as
defendants. The lawsuit seeks to block deportation of just those children, unless the government can ensure adequate
legal representation.
Lois Lerner's Vendetta.
House Republicans have released a Lois Lerner email exchange from November 2012 that "clearly demonstrates
why Ms. Lerner not only targeted conservatives, but denied such groups their rights to due process and equal
protection under the law," wrote House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) in a letter to U.S.
Attorney General Eric Holder. [...] Camp is using this information to make the case that Lerner's bias is
self-apparent, and that the DOJ should get more involved in reviewing her, along with the IRS. He
also reiterated his contention that Holder has yet to make a determined effort to do so. "Despite
the serious investigation and evidence this Committee has undertaken into the IRS's targeting of individuals
for their beliefs, there is no indication that DOJ is taking this matter seriously," he said in a statement.
The Arrogance
of Eric Holder. Holder is the legal ringleader for today's Democrats and their culture
of corruption. After being held in criminal contempt of Congress in June 2012 — the first
such citation against a sitting attorney general in American history — he is just a few steps
away from being impeached in the House of Representatives and tried in the Senate for the high crimes and
misdemeanors his detractors say he has committed against the American people. Twenty House members
have introduced a formal impeachment resolution, H.Res. 411. The resolution's four articles of
impeachment accuse Holder of wrongdoing in connection with his involvement in the Fast and Furious scandal,
refusing to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, refusing to prosecute IRS officials who leaked confidential
GOP donor tax information, and providing misleading testimony to Congress about whether he approved invasive
investigative tactics against reporters like James Rosen of Fox News.
50
Things Barack Obama Has Done Wrong: [#35] The Department of Justice has worked overtime to help
increase voter fraud by fighting against voter ID. This is despite the fact that you need ID to buy alcohol,
drive a car, fly on a plane or even to use Obamacare.
Holder's
absurd push for equal-outcome policing. Women are thought to be not big enough and not
strong enough to play [professional basketball] with men. In a game where the scoreboard can't be
argued with, that's not discrimination, but a simple recognition of the differences in strength,
size and stamina between men and women. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. pretends there are no
differences. The Justice Department has sued the Pennsylvania State Police, alleging sex
discrimination in the hiring of troopers. The government lawyers argue that the physical-fitness
tests the Pennsylvania State Police have used since 2003 "disproportionately disadvantage" women.
What
to do about the politicization of the Attorney General's office. The chief law
enforcement officer of the United States is the Attorney General. He/she is charged with the
investigations and prosecutions of Federal crimes. When there is corruption in the government, it is
the Attorney General who is charged with ferreting out the corrupt and restoring integrity to the
Federal government. But what if the Attorney General selectively seeks out crimes to investigate?
What if the Attorney General turns a blind eye to those crimes and scandals that will discredit his
political interests? What if the Attorney General himself is corrupt?
What
Taxpayers Pay When Eric Holder Uses Government Jets For Personal Trips. On a pleasant
Saturday this summer, Eric Holder, his daughters, their boyfriends and two security officers boarded
a government-owned Gulfstream and jetted off to New York for the Belmont Stakes Thoroughbred horse
race. [...] According to records obtained by The Daily Caller through a Freedom of Information Act
request, Holder is getting pretty good deal here — especially when he flies a
government-owned Gulfstream V jet. That one day trip to Elmont, N.Y. on June 7, according
to records provided to TheDC by the Department of Justice, ended up costing the government $14,440.
Eric
Holder and DOJ/CRS Actively Wanted To Keep Mike Brown Robbery Video Hidden From Public. Under Eric
Holder's tenure the DOJ civil rights division has actively engaged in pushing racial grievances to the forefront
of their operational goals. This type of intentional organizational racism even led to the former head of
the Civil Rights Division, Ondray Harris, quitting his federal job after he was instructed not to hire
non-blacks. In the Mike Brown shooting the institutional racism of the DOJ surfaces again with the
DOJ demand NOT to release the robbery video which showed the behavior of Mike Brown just prior to the
encounter with police officer Darren Wilson.
Why
the Obama administration sees racism everywhere. The Obama administration has done
little to calm racial tensions as they spread from Manhattan to St. Louis to Los Angeles. Quite
the opposite, some top officials have fueled African-American fears of racism with false accusations
of anti-black discrimination. Attorney General Eric Holder's race-baiting is no secret. Justice
Department documents show the nation's top cop gave thousands of dollars to help the Rev. Al Sharpton
organize marches protesting the death of Trayvon Martin. Now he's sent the civil-rights unit to
St. Louis to do the same thing in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Less known,
however, is the role of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, who's made incendiary — and
shamefully disingenuous — statements about race relations in America.
How
The Obama Administration Made The Situation In Ferguson Worse. [For example,] DOJ
Tried to Quash the Strong-Arm Robbery Tape. With all of the hubbub surrounding the Brown shooting,
public outcry about police failure to release information about the incident was at fever pitch by
late last week. That's when the Ferguson Police Department released tape of "gentle giant" Michael
Brown participating in a strong-arm robbery at a local convenience store. Eric Holder's DOJ had
known about that tape for days, and they attempted to stop the police from releasing the information.
Meet the Radical
DOJ Unit Investigating Ferguson Shooting. Why does it matter that the DOJ unit that
will investigate the Ferguson police is stacked with leftists and ideologues? Because anti-police
biases of lawyers in this unit have resulted in gross prosecutorial misconduct against police
officers. United States District Judge Kurt Engelhardt issued [a] blistering 129-page opinion
documenting prosecutorial misconduct by DOJ lawyers seeking to convict New Orleans police officers
of civil rights violations. These lawyers are still employed by the Criminal Section at the Civil
Rights Division.
Eric
Holder: 'I Am the Attorney General... but I'm Also a Black Man'. In remarks made at a
meeting of members of the Ferguson community, Holder stirred some racial strife of his own claiming
that, even as he is Attorney General, he was once also a victim. [...] Holder also fanned the flames
of racial strife across the nation hinting that what happened to teenager Michael Brown was common
all across the nation.
The Editor says...
The Attorney General, like far too many other liberals, is quick to inject race into every conversation.
Eric
Holder and The Lynch Mob Mentality in Ferguson. [A]ccording to United States District
Judge Kurt Engelhardt, Attorney General Holder and the attorneys of his Department of Justice Civil
Rights Division Criminal Section have a different idea of "fairness" than do most Americans. The
unit that will be investigating the shooting in Ferguson and deciding whether to charge police
officer Darren Wilson with civil rights crimes has a history of anti-police activities and unethical
conduct that caused Judge Kurt Englehardt to issue a blistering 129-page opinion documenting
prosecutorial misconduct by DOJ lawyers seeking to convict New Orleans police officers of civil
rights violations. The 129-page opinion makes for frightening reading, [...]
Why
Is Holder in Ferguson When 36 Blacks [were] Shot in Chicago Last Weekend? If Sasha and
Malia Obama, the president's young daughters, had another sister, she might look like 16-year-old
Shaquise Buckner. Chicago police say Shaquise, who was the same age as Malia, appeared to have been
the unintended target of a gang-related drive-by shooting early Saturday morning [8/16/2014]. Yet Attorney
General Eric Holder went to Ferguson, not Chicago. Thirty-six people are shot in Chicago in a single
weekend, seven of them fatally, yet the FBI sends 40 agents to Missouri to investigate the shooting
death of one young black male.
Eric
Holder shows he isn't interested in real justice. Eric Holder candidly acknowledged
his objective in the Michael Brown case when he stated, "my commitment... is, long after this
tragic story no longer receives this level of attention, the Justice Department will continue to
stand with Ferguson." One might have hoped that the Justice Department's commitment in this instance
would be to justice, rather than to standing with any particular group or geographic location.
Eric
Holder, Racial Profiler. Why has a federal civil-rights murder investigation arisen
out of the tumult in a St. Louis exurb? There is only one plausible reason: Eric Holder is guilty of
racial profiling. [...] Was the shooting a legitimate exercise in self-defense by an officer under attack?
Was it an overreaction for which Officer Wilson should suffer serious civil and criminal consequences?
Such questions can only be answered by a thorough and fair investigation, the kind of due process owed to both
the victim and the subject of the investigation — the kind that, as National Review's editors
point out, will be tough to mete out with political thumbs pressing on the scales. Whatever the outcome,
though, murder — including homicide caused by a policeman's application of excessive force —
is generally not a federal crime. It is a concern of state law.
Racism Forever. On
Wednesday [8/20/2014], the nation's top law enforcement officer — who doubles as the
leading impediment to law enforcement, whenever he sees a law he doesn't like — flew to
St. Louis for another exercise in the selective dispensation of justice. [...] History also simmers
beneath the surface of Holder's rhetoric — a history of self-pity and grievance against
his own country ("a nation of cowards," as he famously put it in his first speech after taking
office). He is always accusing his critics and political opponents of racism and bigotry.
It's a habit he can't break.
Eric
Holder's Soros-Sponsored Police Sensitivity 'Training'. The vice president's Boeing 757
delivered Eric Holder to St. Louis yesterday [8/20/2014]. In Ferguson, Holder announced that he was "a black
man" and therefore had the power to heal Ferguson in ways that no other law enforcement official could. Yet his
comments were sure to throw gasoline on fire burning hot with racial division. That shouldn't shock anyone.
It's the community organizing model of running the Justice Department. What is shocking is who is fueling the
Justice Department's "training" of police departments around the country: radicals, communist-affiliated
organizations, and George Soros.
Milwaukee
Sheriff David Clarke: Eric Holder Needs to Apologize to Cops. Attorney general Eric
Holder and Missouri Democratic leaders need to apologize to the law-enforcement community for
impugning officers' motives in light of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., according to one prominent
county sheriff. Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke, who gained notoriety last year for
encouraging gun ownership within his Wisconsin community, said Holder, Governor Jay Nixon, and
Senator Claire McCaskill made the situation in Ferguson worse with their "irresponsible,
inflammatory" comments about the city's police force and its supposed problem with race relations.
Eric
Holder's 'Fair' Investigation in Ferguson? Attorney General Eric Holder travelled to
Ferguson, Missouri, Wednesday [8/20/2014] to personally intervene in the investigation of the police shooting of
Michael Brown, an unprecedented and highly questionable move. In a column published in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, Holder claimed that the Justice Department would conduct an investigation that would be "fair" and
"independent." But given Holder's biased views on race and the history of his tenure at DOJ [...] we have
serious doubts that his department can conduct an impartial investigation.
Milwaukee
Sheriff: Eric Holder "Owes Every Officer In America An Apology". While visiting
Ferguson, Missouri yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters he "personally"
understands the "sense of mistrust and mutual suspicion that can take hold in the relationship
between law enforcement and certain communities." It's that kind of "irresponsible" and
"inflammatory" rhetoric that lead Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke to demand an apology from
Holder, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, and Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. Clarke contends that
Holder and others have made a bad situation in Ferguson worse by "insinuating that our law-enforcement
officers across the United States engage in some nefarious or systematic and cultural attempts to
violate people's civil rights."
Our
Chief Law Enforcement Officer Doesn't Trust Police. What a great choice for chief law
enforcement officer — a race baiter who doesn't trust the police! Eric Holder, the
chief law enforcement officer of the United States government, met with the people of Ferguson while
he was in Ferguson, but he appears to have snubbed local police. His message was clear —
he stands with the protesters and rioters. "Change is coming," Holder announced in a message heard
by rioters and protesters alike. He met with the politically-oriented Chief Ron Johnson and the FBI
who are in Ferguson conducting a parallel investigation to the police investigation.
Holder's
police-shooting hypocrisy. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is enjoying a tidal
wave of laudatory press coverage for his activism on the Ferguson, Mo., shooting and subsequent
protests. In the 1990s, though, Mr. Holder ignored plenty of cases of District of Columbia black
cops killing unarmed black civilians — even when policemen lied about the shootings.
Mr. Holder was appointed in 1993 by President Clinton as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
At that time, D.C. police were killing more civilians than any other large city police force, based
on population. The number of killings by D.C. police quadrupled between 1989 and 1995, when
16 civilians died as a result of police gunfire.
Holder:
Leading the Racial Rush to Judgment. One thing an old Ivy League revolutionary can't
stand is people noticing that he represents the Establishment, that he embodies the System to a
point where he can make it stop and make it go. He will go to great lengths to convince himself, if
not others, this is not so. Take Eric H. Holder Jr., Columbia College Class of
1973, Columbia Law School Class of 1976, now into his sixth year as U.S. attorney general of the
Obama Imperium. The man really wants us to think he is not also "the man."
Holder
Cuts Left In On $17 Billion Bank Of America Settlement. The deal requires billions of
dollars in debt forgiveness payments to delinquent borrowers. It also requires Bank of America to
make billions in new loans and to build affordable low-income rental housing. The remaining money
will go to a slush fund for leftists. [...] NeighborWorks of America has been a major supporter of
ACORN, the left's most favored radicals. According to Investors' Business Daily, in 2008 and 2009
NeighborWorks awarded a whopping $25 million to Acorn Housing. Moreover, an Acorn Housing spinoff
is directly eligible for BofA slush funds. It's an outfit called Mutual Housing Association of New York.
DOJ
To Give Money From Bank Of America Settlement To Liberal Activist Groups. The
Department of Justice is giving liberal activist groups money from a $16.6 billion settlement with
Bank of America, Judicial Watch reports. The groups benefiting from the lawsuit, according to
Investor's Business Daily, are the National Council of La Raza, Operation Hope, National Community
Reinvestment Coalition and Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America. The money also went to
"delinquent borrowers" in Chicago, Oakland, Detroit, Philadelphia and other major "Democrat strongholds."
"This is a wealth redistribution scheme disguised as a lawsuit," Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told
The Daily Caller. "And who benefits from the distribution? Interest groups the administration
relies on, outside interest groups, allies and politicians in communities trying to benefit as well."
Fitton noted that these liberal groups are basically what's left of the Association of Community Organization
for Reform Now (ACORN) network, and that President Barack Obama has ties to ACORN.
Holder's
Bank of America Heist Funds Left's Community-Organizer Shock Troops. Government
coercion of the financial sector to make irresponsible loans was the primary driver of the 2007-08
financial meltdown. Yet, as we've previously observed here, "Washington has searched every place but
within for a scapegoat" — with the Obama Justice Department pursuing politically motivated
investigations, prosecutions, and civil lawsuits against banks and credit rating agencies in order to
concoct a history that blames predatory lending rather than statist policy. Now we learn that Eric
Holder, the Tom Hagen of this racketeering enterprise of an administration, is using the vig that DOJ
muscle is extorting from the banks to pour tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of the radical
Left's top rabble-rousers — in addition to diverting what should be public funds to pay off
delinquent debts in cities that Democrats have destroyed.
Holder
Cut Left-Wing Groups In On $17 Bil BofA Deal. Buried in the fine print of the deal,
which includes $7 billion in soft-dollar consumer relief, are a raft of political payoffs to Obama
constituency groups. In effect, the government has ordered the nation's largest bank to create a
massive slush fund for Democrat special interests. Besides requiring billions in debt forgiveness
payments to delinquent borrowers in Cleveland, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Oakland, Detroit, Chicago and
other Democrat strongholds — and up to $500 million to cover personal taxes owed on those
checks — the deal requires BofA to make billions in new loans, while also building affordable
low-income rental housing in those areas.
Americans
believe the Department of Justice is motivated mostly by politics. A growing number of
Americans say they believe the U.S. Department of Justice is motivated primarily by political
interests and not by the pursuit of the truth, according to a survey from Rasmussen Reports. The
poll, which was conducted on Aug. 26-27 and contains a sampling margin of error of plus or minus
2 percentage points, found that only 38 percent of U.S. voters hold a favorable opinion of the
department headed by Attorney General Eric Holder, while a much larger 53 percent hold an
unfavorable opinion. Further, of these respondents, only nine percent hold a "very favorable"
opinion, while 26 percent hold a "very unfavorable" position.
Eric
Holder: A More Dangerous Race-Card Hustler Than Al Sharpton. Holder complains about different prison rates, different
school expulsion rates and longer prison sentences for black boys and men compared to white boys and men. He equates "equal
rights" with "equal results." In Ferguson, Missouri, after announcing federal investigation into the cop-shooting death of
an unarmed black teen, Holder said: "I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.
I can remember being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike on two occasions and accused of speeding. ... I remember how humiliating
that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me." The New Jersey Turnpike? The long-believed claim of "racism"
on that highway has been investigated — and debunked. Twice.
Justice Department Stonewalling Internal
Investigators. The head investigator charged with overseeing the Department of Justice testified Tuesday [9/9/2014] that various
government agencies have repeatedly stymied his investigation efforts, and have done so in direct violation of federal law. Michael E.
Horowitz, Inspector General of the Department of Justice, was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on investigative access to
government information.
IRS
and DOJ Conducted Targeting With Illegally Obtained Conservative Donor Lists. The IRS scandal is NOT about the IRS. Yes, the IRS
did indeed target conservative groups; however, they were NOT the originating entity in the overall plan to create a list of targets. The U.S.
Department of Justice was the originating governmental agency who constructed the plan to make a target list and then weaponize various government
agencies against those on the list.
If
you know who Eric Holder is, you probably don't like him. Attorney General Eric Holder is one of President
Obama's best-known and longest-serving cabinet members. Most recently, he led the administration's response to the
racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri following the Michael Brown killing, launching multiple Justice Department
investigations into the police department there. If the results of a new Wall Street Journal poll are any
guide, Holder's service has not brought him much public approval.
Letter:
Holder Aide Accidentally Calls Issa Staff for Help Spinning IRS Scandal. A senior
communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee
chairman Darrell Issa's staff by accident and asked for their help spinning new revelations about
the IRS scandal, Issa said in a September 8 letter to Holder. The aide, Brian Fallon, is a former
senior aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and a well-known personality on Capitol Hill. The letter
describes Fallon as "audibly shaken" when he realizes his request to leak documents to help get
ahead of news stories about them was mistakenly made to the very office he was seeking to undermine.
Issa believes the call was intended to be made to Democratic Rep. Elijah Cumming's staff, the
ranking member on the oversight panel, the letter said.
Holder
Aide Accidentally Calls Issa's Office to Spin IRS Scandal, Nets Don't Report. An aide
to Eric Holder, who thought he was calling Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings' office for help
on leaking documents to selected reporters, accidentally spilled the beans of the latest IRS spin
job because he called House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's office instead. This newest
twist in the IRS targeting scandal, that broke last night, was not covered on ABC, CBS or NBC's
Wednesday morning [9/10/2014] shows. According to Issa, the documents in question were related to Andrew
Strelka — the former Lois Lerner employee that the committee demanded be turned over to them for
questioning last week.
Misconduct
at Justice Department isn't always prosecuted. Dozens of Justice Department officials,
ranging from FBI special agents and prison wardens to high-level federal prosecutors, have escaped
prosecution or firing in recent years despite findings of misconduct by the department's own
internal watchdog. Most of the names of the investigated officials, even the highest-ranking,
remain under wraps. But documents McClatchy obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal for
the first time a startling array of alleged transgressions uncovered by the department's inspector general.
Obama:
Rout ISIL Everywhere (Except In U.S. Mosques). President Obama has vowed to "hunt down
(Islamic State) terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are" in Iraq and Syria. News
flash: They're also in American mosques. Yet Obama is not going after terrorists in radical
mosques. And he's making it harder for local governments to stop the construction of recruiting and
training centers for the enemy. In fact, as a grand jury investigates another Minneapolis mosque
for radicalizing recruits for ISIL, the Justice Department is suing local officials for blocking a new
extremist mosque in the area.
Holder Issues Fatwa.
[Scroll down] Evidently this is part of the Obama administration's smart diplomacy. The president intends to make
good on his claim that America is a Muslim nation. The idea is to distract public attention by combating bloody Islamist
organizations abroad and smooth the path for stealth jihad on the home front.
The
injustice of Eric Holder. Even we were shocked when we researched our new book,
"Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department," at the extent to which Attorney General Eric
Holder Jr. has politicized the Justice Department and put the interests of left-wing ideology and
his political party ahead of the fair and impartial administration of justice. However, there is no
doubt that the American public has also recognized just how politically corrupt Mr. Holder is, given
this month's very embarrassing poll conducted by Hart Research for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.
DOJ
Doesn't Punish Crime Among Its Ranks. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is responsible for enforcing the law,
providing federal leadership in preventing crime and punishing those guilty of illegal behavior yet it allows its own
officials to get away with all sorts of appalling crimes and transgressions. As if this weren't bad enough, the
DOJ also protects its perpetrators, covering up their name and allowing them to keep their lucrative government
jobs. Even the agency watchdog, which is charged with rooting out corruption, conceals crucial information about
unscrupulous DOJ officials, including those in high-ranking positions. Now a national newspaper chain offers insight
into this astounding cover-up scheme with documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal law
often used by Judicial Watch to expose government corruption.
How
attorney general hopes to mend relations between police and communities. US Attorney General Eric Holder is asking a team of
criminal justice researchers to study racial bias in law enforcement in five American cities. Mr. Holder the program will be funded
by a $4.75 million grant that will be used to study racial profiling in police arrests in five US cities over the course of three years.
These cities, which have yet to be identified, will serve as a testing ground for improving relations between police and citizens in communities
across the country, he sais. [sic]
Undercover
Hero Wins Landmark Case Against Holder's DOJ. In 2007, a federal judge awarded [Jay]
Dobyns $373,000 for the trauma inflicted upon his family due to the negligence of the government.
During the years that followed, Eric Holder's Department of Justice continually attacked Dobyns,
tarnishing his reputation and calling into question his credibility. Dobyns fought back by filing an
additional lawsuit against them, claiming that the agency committed a "breach of good faith" by
continuing to smear him. Last week, after six years of pricey legal battles, Judge Francis Allegra
ruled in favor of Jay Dobyns, awarding him an additional $173,000 in reparations.
Border
Patrol Agent Brian Terry's Sister on Timing of Holder Resignation: "Not a Coincidence". In light
of a federal judge denying a request from the Department of Justice to delay the release of a long-sought after
Fast and Furious document list, the sister of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Kelly Terry-Willis, doesn't find
the timing of Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation to be a coincidence. "I do not find it a
coincidence that Eric Holder chose now to resign after Judge Bates denied the request from the DOJ to delay
the release of the Fast and Furious documents. I personally think Eric Holder was really hoping that the
documents would never be made public to my family and the American people," Terry-Willis tells Townhall.
GOP
to Obama: Don't use lame-duck Congress to replace Holder. Conservatives are warning
President Obama against using a lame-duck session of Congress to push through Attorney General Eric
Holder's replacement, even as the White House signals its intention to fill the post quickly.
Holder's announcement that he will resign as the nation's top law enforcement officer reverberated
Thursday [9/25/2014] around Washington, where speculation has already begun to mount about who might
fill the Cabinet position.
Obama
pays glowing tribute to tearful departing Attorney General Eric Holder as a liberal civil rights
champion. Obama said in the State Dining Room that he believes Holder's proudest
achievement' was his record on civil rights reform, what he calls 'the conscience of the building'
that the DOJ occupies just six blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. 'Under his
watch,' Obama said, 'the department has brought a record number of prosecutions for human trafficking,
and for hate crimes — because no one in America should be afraid to walk down the street
because of the color of their skin, the love in their heart, the faith they practice, or the disabilities
that they live with.'
The Eric Holder Tragedy.
The resignation — if that's what it is — of Attorney General Eric Holder signals the end of
one of the most divisive tenures in the history of the cabinet. It was no doubt inevitable after Mr. Holder
was determined, in a bi-partisan vote, to be in criminal contempt of the 112th United States House. He became
the only sitting cabinet officer in history to be so found. He reacted to the contempt finding with more
contempt. From that point on his tenure in office was unsustainable.
Gohmert:
Lois Lerner Will Miss Eric Holder. Republican Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert said that Lois
Lerner will miss departing-Attorney General Eric Holder's presence in the Department of Justice.
Holder, who announced his resignation as attorney general Thursday, has been overseeing a federal
criminal investigation into the IRS scandal that has been accused of protecting the key Obama
administration officials involved. "For many years now, I have been calling for Attorney General
Holder's resignation," Gohmert said in a statement. "Not only has he lied before members of Congress
and, ultimately, been held in contempt, he has obfuscated the truth and been the most partisan, partial,
prejudiced, and self-pitying attorney general in my lifetime, including [Nixon Attorney General] John
Mitchell who went to jail for his crime."
We
Won't Have Eric Holder To Kick Around Any More. Attorney General Eric Holder announced
his resignation this morning. He will stay on until a successor is nominated and confirmed.
Holder has been a poor Attorney General. He will be remembered for Fast and Furious, consistently
stonewalling Congress, and "civil rights" activism — which, however, had little to do with
civil rights. Holder promoted gay marriage, refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, and
did his best to enable voter fraud. He was a loyal Democratic Party foot soldier —
conservatives aptly called him the Obama administration's scandal goalie — but it is hard
to think of any positive accomplishment during his nearly six years in office.
Fox's
Powers, Watters Erupt over Holder: 'Let Black Panthers off the Hook'. Fox's Outnumbered
feasted on the resignation announcement of Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday [9/25/2014], listing
Republican objections to Holder's tenure, which range from Fast & Furious to trying 9/11 perpetrators in
Manhattan. But it was — wait for it — the Black Panthers around which the
argument coalesced, with cohost Kirsten Powers and #oneluckyguy Jesse Watters clashing over what, if
anything, had even happened that Holder allegedly had or had not ignored.
An
Unfortunate Legacy. Eric Holder has announced his resignation from his position as
U.S. attorney general after almost six years of turning the Justice Department into a partisan
political vehicle instead of a law enforcement institution. It's too early to tell as of this
writing what prompted his resignation. One would like to think his legacy of scandals and corruption
finally caught up to him, but we have no reasonable expectation that this is the case, given this
administration's agility at escaping accountability for any and all wrongdoing. No, I doubt it's
his malfeasance in connection with the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, his obstruction of the
congressional investigation into the Internal Revenue Service scandal or any other of a number of
legitimate reasons warranting his repentance and resignation.
America
to Eric Holder: What Took You so Long? Seriously, it took him far too long. After six years of
neglected justice, activist ideology, and selective enforcement of laws, Eric Holder is throwing in the towel.
Wall Street, IRS-targeted conservative groups, and gun owners, are breathing a sigh of relief... In fact, the
only demographic that seems to be worried about the resignation of America's Attorney General are those Mexican Drug
Cartels who used him as an arms supplier. (I assume.) And good riddance.
Goodbye, Eric, and
Good Riddance. What can be said about Eric Holder's six years as attorney general that
PJ Media hasn't already said? The news that Holder is going to resign should be bittersweet to
anyone who cares about racial equality and the rule of law. The damage he has already done to the
country leaves a turbulent wake that is ill-matched to the financial reward awaiting him at a shameless
and large Washington, D.C., law firm. Our country is more polarized and more racially divided
because of Eric Holder. He turned the power of the Justice Department into a racially motivated
turnout machine for the Democratic Party. That was his job in this administration, and he did it well.
Chuck
Todd: Eric Holder is a 'Very Non-Political Person'. [Meet the Press host Chuck] Todd says
this of the man who openly talked about serving "my people" as attorney general. He made that comment in
connection with the New Black Panther case — a racially-tinged case that Holder's DOJ dropped even
after the government had won it. Eric Holder desperately wants to treat al Qaeda terrorists as
criminals rather than non-state illegal combatants. That's a political choice, and one for which he has
been roundly criticized. When Holder attempted to move trials of al Qaeda terrorists from military
tribunals to civilian court — in New York — he lost. Big. Being obtuse to
the viewpoints of others, and being unable to comprehend that the things that you say and do offend and anger
others, is not the same thing as being "non-political."
The End of Eric
Holder. Eric Holder has suddenly announced his retirement, declaring it was time to
rebuild trust between police and minorities. USA Today writes: "Holder has expressed no specific
plans for retirement. But after visiting Ferguson, Missouri last month, he told friends and colleagues
he wants to help rebuild trust between police and minority communities." [...] Eric Holder has suddenly
announced his retirement, declaring it was time to rebuild trust between police and minorities. USA
Today writes: "Holder has expressed no specific plans for retirement. But after visiting Ferguson,
Missouri last month, he told friends and colleagues he wants to help rebuild trust between police and minority
communities." [...] Ferguson is more than a small town; it is now a political bomb shelter. Both Holder
and Obama are running for cover in the only place they know to hide, for a storm is now fairly upon them.
GOP
on Holder's exit: 'Good riddance'. The announcement of Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation on
Thursday [9/25/2014] brought a fiery reaction from Republican lawmakers who wished him "good riddance."
Eric Holder Runs from a Ticking Time
Bomb. The surprise resignation of Eric Holder, the first Attorney General ever to be held in contempt of Congress,
exploded in the news today. Holder has been under unrelenting assault for the most egregious politicization and abuse of
power in the Department of Justice in history — exceeding that of John Mitchell and Alberto Gonzalez. He has
made the Department of Obstructing Justice notorious. Federal judges are stepping in to end his stone walling of Congressional
and other investigations on several fronts, and now he's on the run. Why now? What is about to blow up?
Eric Holder's Legacy: Duplicity,
Incompetence, and Obliviousness. [H]e was a thoroughly typical attorney general, a cabinet position that has long been
held by individuals whose first loyalty is to the president that appointed them rather than to the Constitution they swear to defend.
Eric
Holder's reign ends with a whimper. The resignation of Eric Holder as attorney general is an unavoidably symbolic moment
for an administration that itself appears to be stumbling through the final years of a troubled second term. Holder truly
personifies an administration of unrivaled ambitions colliding with inescapable realities. He proved a fierce friend to
President Obama, and that loyalty might have worked to the disadvantage of both men. After a series of major court defeats
and public controversies, Obama (like President Bush before him) might have been served better by an attorney general who was more
detached from him and more attached to the constitutional principles that shape both their offices.
Judicial
Watch: Holder Went Down as We Forced DOJ's Hand on Fast and Furious in Court. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton
said in a statement on Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning as his group is close to nailing the Department of
Justice on Operation Fast and Furious. Judicial Watch just won a key battle in federal court against the administration on the
Fast and Furious documents President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege over to hide them from the American people and Congress.
Chuck
Todd begins 'rehabilitation' by calling Eric Holder 'non-political'. [Scroll down] But should anyone think I'm being
too hard on Todd for that exchange (after all, he did seem so earnest and full of good intentions to be an unbiased journalist), he lost
no time proving he is just another lefty shill as he covered the story of Holder stepping down.
How
Eric Holder Facilitated the Most Unjust Presidential Pardon in American History. Marc Rich [...] became internationally
notorious in 2001, when, as a fugitive from justice, he was pardoned by Bill Clinton in the last hours of his administration. What
many don't recall is that Attorney General Eric Holder, who was then a deputy attorney general, was instrumental in securing Rich's pardon.
Holder heading out, but
contempt lives on. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Thursday he is resigning as soon as a replacement is found,
though he and the Justice Department still face contempt of Congress charges that will linger well after he officially gives up the
office. Analysts said Mr. Holder — the first sitting Cabinet official ever to face a contempt citation from Congress —
will likely duck any legal punishment, though his department will soon be forced to begin turning over the documents he withheld, which sparked
the initial fight. It's just the latest in a series of stormy disputes that have defined his turbulent six-year tenure.
Why Eric Holder Will Regret
His Recklessness. The nation can wave goodbye to Attorney General Holder with relief, as to a bad houseguest who almost burned
down the house during his unwelcome stay. His political missteps were legion, and his choices on law enforcement policy revealed a
stunning combination of ideology and incompetence. He called for the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al-Qaeda leaders in
downtown New York City, for example, which showed a failure to understand our war on terrorism. He accused Americans of being a
nation of cowards on race while dropping prosecutions of voter intimidation in Philadelphia. He made a terrible error of judgment
on sending guns that ended up in Mexico and then made the mistake of stonewalling Congress's effort to investigate —
leading to the unprecedented citation for contempt of a sitting attorney general.
Obama's
enforcer resigns: Attorney General Holder one of worst officials ever to lead Justice Department. [E]very time President
Obama has broken, bent, ignored or changed the law, the person at his side advising him how to do it has been Eric Holder. Mr. Holder
is also responsible for spearheading an unprecedented politicization of the Justice Department, which should be of great concern to anyone
who cares about the rule of law and the impartial administration of justice.
Holder: My Work Helped
To Create A More Perfect Union. Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder stepped down saying his work at the Department of Justice
over the last six years has significantly improved civil rights in America and, "help to craft a more perfect union."
Holder
denies timing his resignation for election. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday [9/26/2014] that the
timing of his resignation had nothing to do with the midterm elections. "That decision was made irrespective of the
midterms," Holder said in an interview with MSNBC. The timing of his departure allows President Obama to try to get
a replacement confirmed before the new Congress arrives next year, where the Senate could be controlled by Republicans.
The White House hinted on Friday that it would indeed try to get the new attorney general through in the lame-duck session.
Eric Holder's Rap Sheet. In an
administration characterized by outsized misadventures — from the use of the nation's tax bureau to suppress political opponents
to the use of secret waiting lists at government hospitals that killed American servicemen — Eric Holder managed to make his
Justice Department a source of special, nay, historic attention: In June 2012, Holder became the first U.S. attorney general to be
held in contempt by the House of Representatives. He earned every vote. Achieving "justice" via the Justice Department may
be an intrinsically unlikely prospect, but none of Holder's recent predecessors — Janet Reno, John Ashcroft, Michael Mukasey,
even the much-maligned Alberto Gonzales — exhibited his sheer contempt for the rule of law. Much to his preference was
employing the law for political purposes; or, when necessary, dispensing with the law completely.
When
you think of Eric Holder, please remember Elian Gonzalez. As we count down Eric Holder's greatest hits, the
first image that comes to the mind of many Americans isn't that of Brian Terry, or of Black Panthers outside polling places,
but of a screaming child staring down the barrel of a rifle. On April 22, 2000, just before dawn, U.S federal
agents executed a full-blown raid on the home of five year old Elian Gonzalez, seizing the child and setting in motion
procedures to send Elian and his father back to Cuba.
Attorney
General Eric Holder orders no death penalty for three members of Brooklyn drug crew. Outgoing U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder has ordered federal prosecutors not to seek the death penalty against three members of a Brooklyn drug
crew charged with a killing in which the victim was tortured, the [New York] Daily News has learned The decision was
disclosed Thursday [9/25/2014] in a one-sentence letter to Brooklyn Federal Judge Frederic Block several hours after Holder
announced he was resigning after nearly six years as the nation's top law enforcement official.
Brian Terry's Sister:
Holder Quitting No Accident. The attorney general who oversaw the administration's Fast and Furious gun-walking operation into
Mexico resigns right after a federal court denies a DOJ request to delay releasing Fast And Furious documents.
DOJ
Tells Ferguson Police Department — 'Stop Supporting Darren Wilson'. In order to facilitate direct terror
attacks against Police Officers and their families in Ferguson Missouri, the Federal Department of Justice is demanding the names
of the police officers be made evident on their uniforms. It is apparently too difficult to coordinate attacks against the
individual officers and their families if the names are not readily available. In addition the DOJ is requesting the Ferguson
Police department make it a easier to isolate Officer Wilson.
Feds
tell Ferguson chief to ban 'I am Darren Wilson' bracelets. Federal civil rights investigators want the Ferguson police
chief to ban his officers from wearing bracelets supporting a white colleague who shot and killed an unarmed, black 18-year-old.
Good riddance to polarizing Eric
Holder. Those in this country who still care about right and wrong, the rule of law and "justice" not filtered through the
political shop of the Obama White House just received some very good news with the announcement that the incredibly uncivil "civil
rights champion" Eric Holder is resigning as attorney general. This is great news unless Barack Obama, a president with no
discernible domestic or foreign policy, attempts to appoint Holder to the Supreme Court. Should that happen, hopefully some
of the Democrats in the Senate now separating themselves from the foundering presidency of Obama will join with the Republicans to
block the nomination.
Eric Holder Out, Special
Prosecutor to Follow? Holder is the legal ringleader for today's Democrats and their noxious culture of corruption.
After being held in criminal contempt of Congress in June 2012 — the first such citation against a sitting attorney general
in American history — for a while he has been just a few steps away from being impeached in the House of Representatives.
Now it appears he will never be tried in the Senate for the high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed against the American people.
If there is any justice, after the Obama era mercifully draws to a close, Holder will be prosecuted for a litany of abuses that have
been ably documented by J. Christian Adams in Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department and by
John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky in Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department. But don't hold your breath waiting
for justice to be done.
Eric Holder's Original Sin.
In his very first public act as attorney general, he showed his cronies that Obama was more anxious about keeping them happy than he was about
faithfully executing the laws of the land. When the media let them get away with this, they knew they could get away with anything, and
they were right. The details of the case are evil enough to outrage just about every American outside of a major media newsroom.
Will
Obama Try to Put Holder on the Supreme Court? [Scroll down] Also arguing against the nomination of
Eric Holder is the fact that he has already been censured by the House of Representatives. In and of itself, such
a censure has no legal standing to block Holder's nomination, but it does indicate that at least 218 members of the
House were seriously upset with Mr. Holder's evident refusal to cooperate in a legal matter before them. His
constant delaying tactics, editing and failure to turn over documents (or if you prefer the term — evidence)
was hardly consistent with the responsibilities of the "Chief Law Enforcement officer" in the nation. Why mention
the vote to censure Holder? Because the same 218 members of the House would be sufficient to deliver a Bill of
Impeachment to the Senate regarding a new Justice Eric Holder.
Eric Holder's 7 Worst Actions as Attorney
General. Attorney General Eric Holder, the first attorney general in history to be held in contempt by the House
of Representatives, surprised the political world today when he announced he would be resigning, effective on the confirmation
of his successor. Holder will leave a troubled legacy and many unanswered questions as John Fund and I discovered when we
were researching our new book, "Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department." The Justice Department veterans we
talked to said that Holder has politicized the Department to an unprecedented degree, which should concern everyone who cares
about the rule of law.
Reminder:
The Republicans Who Voted to Confirm Eric Holder. Given the disastrous reign of Eric
Holder at the Department of Obstructing Justice — "the most partisan Attorney General in
history" according to Sen. Ted Cruz — it's worth remembering the Republican nitwits,
sycophants and dupes who voted to confirm him.
Eric
Holder, A Legacy of Race-Based Radicalism. Attorney General Eric Holder is at long
last relinquishing his cabinet post after nearly six unprecedented, catastrophic years of racial
demagoguery and gangsterism. [...] Holder was the official assigned to vet President Bill Clinton's
176 last-minute pardons in January 2001. Among those pardoned were former Weather Underground
members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans. He was deeply involved in Clinton's pardons of fugitive
financier Marc Rich and Puerto Rican terrorists. Holder is an archetype, a living, breathing
embodiment of American political corruption.
Holder
will regret his refusal to obey the Constitution. The nation can wave goodbye to
Attorney General Holder with relief, as to a bad house-guest who almost burned down the house during
his unwelcome stay. His political missteps were legion, and his choices on law enforcement policy
revealed a stunning combination of ideology and incompetence.
Goodbye Eric Holder.
In a nation where there is a scarcity of good news, hearing Eric Holder give a farewell speech upon
his announcement that he will be leaving as the Attorney General was surely welcome in some circles.
I was never a fan of his because he was in my opinion always more of a politician than someone with
the responsibility to enforce the laws of the nation. I first took notice of Holder when, in the
pre-dawn hours of April 22, 2000, as the deputy attorney general serving under Janet Reno, he
oversaw the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, a seven-year-old whose mother had died in an effort to escape
Cuba and find sanctuary in the United States. Holder was doing what he had to do after a court ruled
that Gonzalez be returned to his father in Cuba, but I thought then and still do that Gonzalez should have
been allowed to remain with his U.S. relatives.
Who Forced
Eric Holder Out? On Thursday, September 25, Eric Holder announced that he would step
down as Attorney General of the United States. If you are a regular reader of the Weekly
Update, you know that since the day he was appointed to office, Judicial Watch has battled day
in and day out to prevent Holder from continuing to corrupt the Department of Justice (DOJ). And, in
fact, in January of this year, we named him to the Judicial Watch list of the "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt
Politicians" for the sixth year in a row. Many quickly credited Judicial Watch's work with helping
to force Holder out.
Justice
Department expected to ban profiling by federal law enforcement. The Justice
Department is expected to ban profiling by federal law enforcement. Counter-terror investigators
would be barred from undercover operations in mosques or other religious institutions unless there
is reason to believe criminal activity is going on there, under a new policy expected within weeks.
The new rules would ban profiling based on religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation and includes
no exemption for national security investigations, the Los Angeles Times reports. The
announcement of the new policy to crack down on law enforcement profiling was delayed for several
months because of White House concerns over national security implications.
Ana
Marie Cox: Holder Worst AG for Journalists in Decades. The Daily Beast's Ana Marie Cox
criticized Attorney General Eric Holder [9/27/2014] for his record on civil liberties and dubbed him
"the worst Attorney General for journalists, probably in decades" on Saturday's "Up with Steve
Kornacki" on MSNBC.
Motto
of the Obama Administration: A Nation of Cowards. The Obama administration entrusted
the most important cases of our nation to an attorney general who held the people he was hired to
represent in contempt. Presidential administrations have mottos. Theodore Roosevelt spoke softly
but carried a big stick; John Kennedy pointed to new frontiers and self-sacrifice; Lyndon Johnson
spoke of a great society. As Eric Holder departs, in order to recover from his verbal abuse of the
American people, his insult needs to be viewed as the motto of the Obama administration.
The Moral Failures of Eric Holder. Eric
Holder's left many baleful legacies: being censured by the House of Representatives; withholding subpoenaed documents, proving untruthful about
a failed gun-walking caper in Mexico; failing to enforce laws on the books, from immigration to the elements of the Affordable Care Act; illegally
billing the government for his own private use of a government Gulfstream jet; snooping on Associated Press reporters; giving de facto
exemptions to renegade IRS politicos; and trying to create civilian trials for terrorist killers like KSM, one of the architects of the 9/11
attacks. But he will be known mostly for re-teaching Americans to think of race as essential, not incidental, to our characters.
Eric Holder's
political justice. Upon Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation last week, NBC's
Chuck Todd made an odd comment: "[W]hat's interesting about him, he is a very non-political person."
There may be merit to saying Holder has been more ideological than political, but it still seems
like a strange thing to say about him. After all, his most famous act before his tenure as Attorney
General had been to help arrange President Bill Clinton's highly unusual and controversial last minute pardon
of a wanted fugitive — mega-donor and billionaire Marc Rich. Holder not only recommended the
pardon (calling himself "neutral leaning favorable") but was also careful not to inform his colleagues at the
Clinton Justice Department until it was too late to stop it.
Ugly
Senate fight could await Obama's attorney general nominee. President Obama has a
pretty obvious deadline for nominating a successor to departing Attorney General Eric Holder. If
Democrats lose control of the Senate in November, they'll still run things until newly-elected
members arrive in January. So just to be safe, if the president wants guaranteed confirmation of a
new attorney general, he'll need to pick one soon. That way, even if Republicans win the Senate, and
even if Obama's choice is unpopular with the GOP, lame-duck Democrats will still be able to steamroll the
opposition and confirm a new Attorney General. But it could be very, very ugly. The White House
claims there is ample precedent for a lame-duck nomination. In fact, it's more complicated than that.
I thought he resigned last week. Holder
urges tech companies to leave device backdoors open for police. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Tuesday that new forms of
encryption capable of locking law enforcement officials out of popular electronic devices imperil
investigations of kidnappers and sexual predators, putting children at increased risk.
The Editor says...
This appears to be Holder's half-baked logic: If you don't leave your company's products wide open to
police snooping, warrantless or otherwise, then you are abetting criminals.
Holder
Demonized State Attempts to Ensure Honest Elections. Attorney General Eric Holder, who
announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of
his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest
elections. As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary
of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious: Those who oppose photo
voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.
To
Better Protect Muslims, AG Holder Set To Ban 'Religious Profiling'. If one is looking
for reasons why Washington has become so caustic, divisive and bitter, look no further than retiring
Attorney General Eric Holder. If reports first published by the Los Angeles Times are
correct, the always controversial Holder, aged 63, will soon announce a new and permanent ban on
so-called 'religious profiling' designed to better protect those suspected of jihadist or Islamist
activities from federal surveillance.
Wanted:
An attorney general committed to the Constitution. It is no secret that the Obama administration has demonstrated
questionable commitment to the rule of law. It has undermined the separation of powers by disregarding congressional
enactments while pushing executive power far beyond its constitutional boundaries. It has further undermined limited
government by disregarding federalism and pushing Washington-knows-best legislation that far exceeds anything the Founding
Fathers could have conceived.
Eric
Holder's Top 10 Rule-of-Law Violations. In light of my two lists of President Obama's
top 10 constitutional violations — for 2011 and 2013 — a few readers have
asked me to follow up on my short statement about Attorney General Eric Holder's tenure by putting
together a list for him. I had started thinking about that, but then came across this item by Hans
von Spakovsky (who co-authored with John Fund a book on Holder's missteps), which details Holder's
"7 Worst Actions as Attorney General."
Obama's Master Plan With Eric
Holder. Last week, I discussed how I believe Rush Limbaugh was right in saying that Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation is
not in any way a simple bon voyage. Rather, it is a deliberate ploy to maneuver him into an even greater place of influence, possibly
even the Supreme Court. The most obvious replacement on the Supreme Court is liberal-leaning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was
appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton with a 96-3 Senate vote, something she admits today would never happen because
of her liberal voting record and her connection with the American Civil Liberties Union. Indeed, she is hailed as the Supreme Court's liberal
leader, even hugging President Barack Obama before the nation as if he were her own son.
'Commish'
Eric Holder to make D.C. the 51st state? President Obama is being urged to make outgoing Attorney General
Eric Holder the head of a commission to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state. "No one would be better
suited to promote fresh thinking on how to give his fellow Washingtonians the rights to which they are entitled," cheered
the Washington Post in a Tuesday [10/7/2014] editorial.
Department of Injustice.
[Scroll down] As 97 percent of the 99.5 percent found guilty are intimidated by the manipulation of the
plea-bargain system into pleading guilty to spare the state the irritation of a trial, the
defendants accept the abandonment of 147 of the 153 counts against them, plead guilty, and are
rehearsed in a catechetical process by the prosecutors to accuse themselves of cowardice, hypocrisy,
sociopathic turpitude, and often outright evil, and profess their gratitude for the sentence they
are about to receive. It smacks of nothing so much as the Stalin system of torturing the innocent
until, to spare their families, they proclaimed their guilt, fulminated an allocution of coruscating
self-loathing and self-righteously bellowed their demand to be executed immediately, and were led
away by Stalin's obliging jurists, and often dispatched, mercifully in the circumstances, in the
basement of the courthouse.
Judicial
Watch President: Holder Resigned Over Judge's Fast & Furious Ruling. Judicial Watch
president Tom Fitton says he has "no doubt" that a Sept. 23 federal court order requiring the
Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over an index of documents relating to the Fast and Furious
scandal by October 22 prompted the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder two days later.
"There's no doubt the writing was on the wall between Fast and Furious and the IRS scandal circling
around the Justice Department. He did not want to be a person of interest in Washington discussions
when more information about Fast and Furious came out," Fitton told CNSNews.com. "And the
Washington way is that [when] bad things happen, get out of Dodge and hope everyone forgets."
Weeks after he supposedly resigned... AG
Eric Holder Says Feds to Recognize Gay Marriages in Seven More States. Attorney
General Eric Holder announced Friday [10/17/2014] that the federal government will recognize same-sex marriages
in seven more states — Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
"With their long-awaited unions, we are slowly drawing closer to full equality for lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender Americans nationwide," Holder said.
Government
Case Implodes as Its Former Lawyers Allege Fraud Against Holder's DOJ. The New York
Observer reports that two former Assistant United States Attorneys say the Holder Justice Department
engaged in deceit and corruption of justice in connection with the DOJ's litigation against Sierra
Pacific Industries, a California lumber company. As a result of the allegations, a federal
district judge has ordered the recusal from the case of every judge in the Eastern District of
California. He reasons that the court may have been defrauded by the government, thus
requiring the appointment of an outside judge to handle the matter going forward.
Holder:
Failure To Pass Gun Control Is My Biggest Failure. Attorney General Eric Holder said
that his biggest failure during his time as head of the Justice Department was failing to pass
expanded gun control laws and criticized former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for his negative
characterizations of the president during an interview aired on Monday's [10/20/2014] broadcast of
"The Lead" on CNN. "I think the inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown
massacre is, for me, something that I take personally as a failure, and something that I think we as
a society should take as a failure" he stated when asked what he considered his greatest failure.
Eric
Holder Is Really Sad He Was Unable To Disarm You Before Fleeing Office. Eric Holder,
the first sitting U.S. Attorney General ever found in criminal contempt of Congress, regrets that he
was unable to strip Americans of the firearms that the citizens would find most useful in defending
themselves from tyrannical government officials such as himself.
Holder
"exasperated" about Ferguson investigation leaks. Attorney General Eric Holder told
Justice Department lawyers that he was "exasperated" about leaks from the federal investigation into
last summer's police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in a St. Louis suburb, a Justice official
told CBS News Thursday [10/23/2014].
New
Evidence in Fast and Furious Scandal Reveals Why Eric Holder and Valerie Jarrett Should Both be in
Jail. New evidence obtained by government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, reveal that
Obama's most trusted and loyal adviser, Valerie Jarrett, was managing Eric Holder's lies told to
Congress in the Obama-Holder illegal Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, in which the regime was
funneling American-made weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
Valerie
Jarrett Helped Manage Fallout Over Eric Holder's Changing Fast and Furious Testimony to Congress. For
years the White House has argued it had nothing to do with Operation Fast and Furious while it was active and certainly
wasn't involved the fallout and cover-up that followed after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in 2010 by Mexican
bandits carrying guns from the lethal program. Now years later, a Vaughn Index describing Fast and Furious documents
being held from the American people and Congress under President Obama's assertion of executive privilege shows White House
Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett played a key role in Attorney General Eric Holder's changing testimony to Congress.
Obama
Caught Covering Up Emails In Fast And Furious Scandal For Eric Holder And His Family.
A government watchdog group announced Thursday [10/23/2014], after receiving information about the Fast and
Furious operation, that President Obama asserted executive privilege to block emails sent between
Attorney General Eric Holder and family members. Early during President Obama's tenure, the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) launched "Operation Fast and Furious," allowing thousands of
firearms to be illegally sold in the hopes of tracking Mexican drug cartels. United States Border
Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed with one of those firearms in December of 2010.
An
FBI October surprise dirty trick in South Dakota Senate race? Why on earth would the
FBI announce an "active" investigation potentially involving a GOP candidate for Senate just before
the election? If you answered, "Because Eric Holder's Justice Department supervises the FBI,"
you might be on to something.
AP
demands Holder explain FBI's fake newspaper sting. The FBI's use of a fake Associated
Press news story to locate a suspect raises "constitutional concerns," the news organization wrote
in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday [10/30/2014]. A lawyer for the AP called
on the Justice Department to vow never to impersonate the news outlet again and to specify what
authority it used to justify the action.
Eric
Holder is the First Attorney General in History Who Actively Supports Vote Fraud. As
"calibration errors" switch votes in Illinois and Maryland, an election watchdog group sues the
latter over massive voting by noncitizens in one county after discovering voters registered in
multiple states. The fact that many people will do anything to get out of jury duty has exposed
massive fraudulent voting in Frederick County, Md., that may have been going on for years. Illegal
aliens who stated they were noncitizens on jury duty forms were found to have cast votes in elections.
Eric
Holder's final days: A bang, or a whimper? Attorney General Eric Holder announced in
late September that he would step down from office, leading to speculation as to whether America's
top law enforcement officer will go quietly or if he will rush through last-minute, longstanding
projects. The most likely scenario, according to a few analysts, is that Holder's final days
will be quiet, even dull.
Eric
Holder Deploys Poll-Watchers to Look for 'Discrimination'. Eric Holder's Department of
Justice is sending teams of federal monitors to 18 states to "watch for discrimination against
voters." The list of states appears completely random: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia,
Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. DOJ can't possibly have the manpower
to cover more than a relative handful of precincts in those 18 states, so one wonders what the point is.
Holder
Sends 'Election Monitors' to Polls. Attorney General Eric Holder is dispatching
"federal election monitors" to polls tomorrow [11/4/2014] for Election Day. "As Americans across
the country prepare to vote in tomorrow's midterm elections, Attorney General Eric Holder announced
that the Department of Justice has dispatched federal monitors to polling places around the
country," reads the press release from the Department of Justice.
The
integrity of the ballot is in the very best of hands. Attorney General Eric Holder is
sending "poll watchers" to 16 states to make sure there's no "discrimination" against voters.
Meanwhile, the George Soros-funded group Common Cause is also sending poll watchers across the
country to insure that there's plenty of work for Democratic lawyers who see GOP perfidy under every
bed and behind every corner. The integrity of the vote is in the very best of hands.
Holder
& EPA Ding Carmaker $350 Million for Climate Change. In sensational language, Attorney
General Eric Holder today announced the biggest enforcement action ever against a greenhouse gas
violator, as the federal government penalized automaker Hyundai Group up to $350 million. [...] What
did they do to deserve the biggest spanking since the Supreme Court, in 2007, gave the EPA power to
regulate greenhouse gases? Hyundai Group overestimated the miles-per-gallon rating in about a
quarter of their Kia and Hyundai models.
'Election
Eve Dump:' Eric Holder Releases Fast and Furious Documents That Got Him Cited for
Contempt. Justice Department officials provided House investigators with thousands of
documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that President Obama had previously claimed were
exempt from congressional review. In an "election eve dump," as House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) put it, DOJ handed over 64,280 pages of
documents, a release that is still only a partial fulfillment of the committee's request. "This
production is nonetheless a victory for the legislative branch, a victory for transparency, and a
victory for efforts to check Executive Branch power," Issa said of the release.
Holder
[profane and vulgar] in Newly Released Emails. The Wall Street Journal today
[11/7/2014] reported on more emails the Justice Department handed over to the House Oversight
Committee, and one of them shows Eric Holder getting a bit profane and testy with critics over the
Fast and Furious scandal. In a previous email released this week, the attorney general trashed
House Oversight Committee chair Darrell Issa and his "idiot cronies" making this investigation all
about politics.
New attorney general
must shun Holder's naked partisanship. Ms. Lynch has been the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of
New York since President Clinton put her there in 1999. Sen. Charles E. Schumer has been her champion, and he
recommended that Mr. Obama keep her a decade later. She was tipped for bigger things.
Ex-FBI
Official: Holder's Ferguson Comments Created 'Rift' With Law Enforcement. Attorney
General Eric Holder's comments following the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police
officer in Ferguson, Missouri created a "significant rift" between law enforcement and the
Department of Justice (DOJ) that Holder's successor will have to repair, says a former assistant
director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). "We look forward to Loretta Lynch's
confirmation hearings to become the [next] attorney general, but there's no time to rejoice.
Significant damage has been done and there is much work ahead to undo it," said Ron Hosko, who is
now president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF), a group that provides financial
assistance to "wrongfully accused/charged law enforcement officers."
Former
FBI Assistant Director Slams Holder as "Chief Among Antagonists" in Ferguson. As the
Senate prepares to hold confirmation hearings for new Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch and as
outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder continues to allocate Department of Justice resources to the
situation in Ferguson, former FBI Assistant Director and Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund President
Ron Hosko has sent a scathing letter to President Obama detailing the damage done to the relationship
between law enforcement and DOJ over the past six years.
Holder
Takes Death Penalty off Table for Gang Members Charged with Killing Cop. On November 14,
federal prosecutors made it clear that Attorney General Eric Holder has "taken the death penalty off the
table" for four men charged in the gang-related murder of Waynesboro, Virginia, police officer, Captain
Kevin Quick. [...] Prosecutor Timothy J. Heaphy says Holder is responsible for making the call on
death penalty cases.
Eric
Holder Sides With Alleged Cop Killers, Again. Last week former Assistant FBI Director
Ron Hosko, who now leads the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, sent a scathing letter to President
Obama about the broken relationship between DOJ and law enforcement across the country under
Holder's leadership and used the situation in Ferguson, Missouri as an example.
Holder
Tells Law Enforcement to Behave. Ahead of the grand jury in Ferguson announcing
whether it will indict a police officer for killing a man in Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney General
Eric Holder has released a video announcement telling law enforcement to behave. "The Justice
Department encourages law enforcement officials, in every jurisdiction, to work with the communities
they serve to minimize needless confrontation," Holder says.
The
Justice Department Becomes a Schoolyard Bully in Wisconsin. It is as remarkable as it
is repulsive, the ingenuity with which the Obama administration uses the regulatory state's
intricacies to advance progressivism's project of breaking nongovernmental institutions to
government's saddle. Eager to sacrifice low-income children to please teachers unions, the Justice
Department wants to destroy Wisconsin's school choice program. Feigning concern about access for
disabled children, the department aims to handicap all disadvantaged children by denying their parents
access to school choices of the sort affluent government lawyers enjoy.
Confirmed:
Eric Holder's Rogue DOJ Targeted CBS News Reporter Sharyl Attkisson. Fast and Furious,
along with Benghazi, is one of the two "phony" administration scandals that produced body bags, and
former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson is responsible for much of the truth-telling about both. That
fact is enough to put her high atop the administration's enemies list. Attkisson, a casualty of
liberal media bias, resigned from CBS in March after a series of clashes between her and her bosses
over her exposes of administration wrongdoing and its subsequent cover-ups. An email thread obtained
by government watchdog Judicial Watch show just how upset Eric Holder's Justice Department and the
White House were over Attkisson's reporting and how hard they tried to undermine her. [...] For the
White House and DOJ, control of the press was a must. They couldn't have a "mainstream" reporter
spilling the beans.
Holder:
We're Not Done Investigating Ferguson Police Officer Yet. Attorney General Eric Holder
emphasized Monday night [11/24/2014] that while a St. Louis grand jury chose not to indict Officer
Darren Wilson, the Justice Department's investigation isn't over yet. "While the grand jury
proceeding in St. Louis County has concluded, the Justice Department's investigation into the
shooting of Michael Brown remains ongoing," Holder said in a statement Monday night. "Though we have
shared information with local prosecutors during the course of our investigation, the federal inquiry has
been independent of the local one from the start, and remains so now."
The Editor says...
Sounds like double jeopardy to me. Mr. Holder pretends to know something that the grand jury did not.
Eric
Holder: We Must 'Seize' the 'Unique Opportunity' Ferguson Presents. On Monday evening,
Attorney General Eric Holder told activists and law enforcement officials in Atlanta that Ferguson
presents an opportunity to deal with issues like racial injustice and the perception that police
treat minorities unfairly before announcing that new federal standards against racial profiling are
on the way. "This presents this nation with, I think, a unique opportunity," Holder said,
according to CNN. "And I think it's incumbent on all of us to seize this opportunity to
deal with issues that for too long have been ignored."
Holder's
Bank of America Heist Funds Left's Community-Organizer Shock Troops. Government
coercion of the financial sector to make irresponsible loans was the primary driver of the 2007-08
financial meltdown. Yet, as we've previously observed here, "Washington has searched every place but
within for a scapegoat" — with the Obama Justice Department pursuing politically motivated
investigations, prosecutions, and civil lawsuits against banks and credit rating agencies in order to
concoct a history that blames predatory lending rather than statist policy.
Watch
Sheriff David Clarke Destroy Eric Holder, Al Sharpton For Fanning Ferguson Flames.
Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke gained notoriety last year after releasing a series of radio
advertisements encouraging people to arm themselves for self defense purposes. He just won a tough
re-election battle in Wisconsin. Now, Clarke is calling out Attorney General Eric Holder in a big
way for his meddling in Ferguson in the case of Officer Darren Wilson and Michael Brown.
Black
Racist Group Plotted Bombing, Assassination but Charged with Gun Crime. The communist
and racist New Black Panther Party plotted to bomb St. Louis' Gateway Arch and assassinate local law
enforcement officials, but the Justice Department so far has limited its prosecution of the group to
an indictment of two members on minor gun charges. The soft treatment for activities that
normally would have brought federal terrorism charges appears to be part of efforts by Attorney
General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to "go soft" on the racist group, according
to former Justice official J. Christian Adams.
Eric
Holder And His Little Racially-Tinged Federal Civil Rights Investigations. The
shooting incident in Mobile, is eerily similar to the Ferguson case, in that a police officer shot
and killed an unarmed 18-year-old white man, who just so happened to be high on drugs. In this
case, a grand jury was also called to look into the shooting, but against pressure by the public to
indict the black officer, the jury did not levy charges against the police officer. Is this
racial hypocrisy by Obama and Holder?
What's
Really Going on with Holder's Civil-Rights Crusade against Police Departments.
Civil-rights investigations in Ferguson and Staten Island? No, what denizens of St. Louis and New
York City ought to be worried about right now is ... the crime wave overtaking Seattle. If you
don't understand why, then you probably thought Obamacare was about covering the uninsured. Like
its health-care "reform" campaign, the Obama Left's civil-rights crusade is about control —
central control of state law enforcement by Washington.
James
O'Keefe Files Bar Complaints Against DOJ Lawyers. James O'Keefe has filed an ethics
complaint with various bar associations against Department of Justice Civil Rights attorney Karla
Dobinski and three others arising out of a prosecution of police officers in New Orleans. [...]
Dobinski was in charge of the taint team in the prosecution of New Orleans polices officers on civil
rights charges in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The taint team was responsible for protecting the
constitutional rights of the accused police officers. It was responsible for ensuring that evidence
obtained in the local internal affairs investigation did not make its way into the criminal prosecution.
Eric
Holder believes all cops are racists, targets 'unconscious bias'. Following the Eric Garner verdict,
New York cops can look forward to having their heads examined for "unconscious bias" by federal thought police unleashed
by Attorney General Eric Holder. The NYPD can expect to undergo the same kind of "de-biasing" training that Holder
put departments in Seattle, New Orleans, St. Louis and several other cities through while investigating them for alleged
civil rights violations.
What's
Really Going on with Holder's Civil-Rights Crusade against Police Departments. [Scroll
down] Seattle is another of the big cities that has been snagged by the DOJ. It has been under
a consent decree since the Justice Department targeted it in 2012 for a "pattern or practice" of
violations, allegedly including "subjecting individuals to excessive force" — in
particular, "using excessive force against persons of color," and "escalating situations and
using excessive force when arresting individuals for minor offenses."
Former
DOJ Lawyer: Obama and Holder Endanger Criminal Justice System. Hans von Spakovsky, writing in The National
Interest, makes a powerful case that Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have endangered the criminal justice
system in their response to the Ferguson grand jury's verdict. Spakovsky writes, "Perhaps the biggest problem with
the reaction of President Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, to the grand jury verdict in Ferguson is their
non-support for the difficult work of the grand jury. That and their support for the mistaken proposition that the
administration of justice is unfair, biased, and prejudiced towards 'communities of color' undermine our criminal justice system."
How
Eric Holder spun the 'Fast and Furious' scandal to a lapdog media. The general news
media met the recent release of 42,000 pages of government documents, withheld for more than two
years under President Obama's one and only invocation of executive privilege, with a
predictable-yet-inexcusable yawn. The documents relate to the Justice Department case "Fast and
Furious" in which federal agents secretly facilitated delivery of thousands of weapons to Mexican
drug cartels. The story was so significant that independent judges awarded it top investigative
reporting honors two years straight. Yet many in the popular news media had declared it a
political scandal of little consequence.
Eric
Holder: It's a 'Good Thing' Athletes Wear 'I Can't Breathe' Shirts. During a quick
interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder approved of the
pro athletes supporting the Eric Garner protestors by wearing "I Can't Breathe" shirts, singling out
LeBron James and Derrick Rose in particular for lending their star power to the protests. The
shirts, which made their way into the hands of the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers during
a high-profile game last week (attended by the Royal Couple and also Will and Kate), had to be smuggled
into the Barclays Center after the NBA requested that players not wear the t-shirts during warmups.
Holder
Decrees Crossdressing Protected Under Federal Law. Attorney General Eric Holder has issued an edict, through a
memorandum, that cross dressing and transsexualism is now protected under federal civil rights laws which were designed to
protect women from sex discrimination. Existing federal law provides no statutory support for treating cross-dressers
and transsexuals as the law treats female victims of discrimination. This means that the Justice Department could now,
for example, consider the decision by a school or church to not hire a transvestite as a violation of federal law.
Eric
Holder's Transgendered Mutilation of Title VII. [Eric] Holder's reference to "a
different sex" is badly confused and odd. A man who identifies as a woman — yes, even a
man who butchers and drugs himself to appear more like a woman — is still a man. Indeed,
when anyone points out this elementary biological reality, transgender activists insist that gender
is fundamentally different from sex. Holder states that the federal government's "approach to
this issue has ... evolved over time." That's his way of acknowledging that his position is directly
contrary to the position that DOJ had previously taken. As Christian Adams points out, Holder is instead
following the dubious lead of the reckless adventurists at the EEOC. And while Holder states that "courts
have reached varying conclusions" on the issue, his citations reveal that he's adopting the position taken
by a federal district judge over that taken by a federal court of appeals.
Critics
say 'anti-cop rhetoric' of Eric Holder, Bill de Blasio may have led to NY police deaths. The shocking,
cold-blooded murder of two New York City police officers Saturday has raised fresh questions about whether prominent
Democrats — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in
particular — have gone too far in their criticism of law enforcement and, at least in part, caused
this weekend's brutal slayings. Former New York Gov. George Pataki, for example, tweeted that Mr. de Blasio
and Mr. Holder have used "divisive anti-cop rhetoric" and, in turn, helped inspire Saturday's shooter.
Gangbangers
Unbound. [Scroll down] This contention has set the agenda for the past twenty
years of the racial debate. Measures taken to control crime are presented as ipso facto evidence of
"systemic" or "institutional" racism. Both Obama and Holder, along with the vast majority of their
contemporaries in both government and media, are true believers in this ideological construct.
This can be clearly seen in both serious racial incidents exploited by the administration, the Trayvon
Martin and Michael Brown shootings.
Taxpayers
Fund Legal Group With Role in Rap Video About Killing Police Officers. The Obama
administration's Justice Department funneled at least $1.5 million in grants to a New York legal-aid
group featured in a new rap video that depicts two young black men aiming handguns at a white police
officer. Some may find the lyrics eerily similar to the social media postings of the man accused
of shooting and killing two New York City police officers execution-style in Brooklyn on Saturday.
Holder
and Obama are making race relations worse, inflaming hatred. A Pew Research Center
poll found that only 40% of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling race relations. Black
approval is down to 57%, while approval among whites is down to 33%. More young people under age
30, the age group who were most enthusiastic about electing the nation's first African-American
president, now disapprove of his performance on racial issues than approve. And Eric Holder
has one of the lowest approval ratings of any public official.
Sick Political
Theater. The events in Ferguson, Missouri are the latest example of sick political
theater, carefully orchestrated to shape public policy. [...] Eric Holder knows every detail of the
eyewitness testimony and he knows the physical evidence. He knows, but he doesn't care. He has a
role to play in this sick, political drama and the facts will not change his role in any way. He and
the ever-present, ever-despicable, race-baiters like Sharpton and Jackson throw Molotov cocktails of
racial division into the crowds.
Even
the Thoroughly Politicized DOJ Reluctantly Admits it Can't Find Reason to Charge Darren Wilson.
It would seem that even the most corrupt Attorney General in modern American history (surpassing John Mitchell,
in my view) couldn't find a reason to charge Officer Darren Wilson of the beleaguered Ferguson P.D. Say,
maybe it was the videotape of the "Gentle Giant" ripping off a convenience store and roughing up the
owner. And all of the physical evidence at the scene. And the witnesses of every race that
backed up Wilson's story. Et cetera.
Holder
on the hot seat: Senators demand answers on U.S. fugitives in Cuba. A group of Senate
Republicans pressed Attorney General Eric H. Holder on Friday [1/23/2015] to explain the administration's policy
for U.S. fugitives in Cuba, including a convicted cop killer, following President Obama's announced normalization of
relations with the communist island nation. "As the nation's chief law enforcement officer, do you support the
normalization of relations with Cuba without the return of fugitives from justice for prosecution who have the blood
of Americans, including law enforcement officers on their hands?" said the three senators in a letter to Mr. Holder.
The
Questions Loretta Lynch Needs to Answer. Some of the actions and statements of Eric
Holder during his years in office have made a mockery of principled law enforcement, yet there has
been little to stop him. Congressional oversight, embarrassing unpopularity, and repeated 9-0
Supreme Court decisions against the DOJ's extreme legal positions have done little to alter the
leftward course of this most powerful of federal agencies. Holder has held nobody at the Justice
Department accountable for scandal after scandal, from the unjustified dismissal of the New Black
Panther Party voter-intimidation case to the reckless Operation Fast and Furious program and the criminal
targeting of reporters for alleged leaks. Even finding Holder in criminal contempt of Congress for
his refusal to provide documentation to which Congress is entitled has failed to constrain him.
Criminal
Conspiracy Allegations Strike Highest Levels of DOJ. David Codrea helped break the
"Fast and Furious" gun-running plot, and so it should be not surprise that he's breaking the news of
what appears to be an even bigger scandal alleging a criminal conspiracy at the top levels of
Obama's Justice Department.
The Scandals
at Justice. [Scroll down] Another federal prosecutor, Eric Overby, left the
Midnight Fire probe in 2011 because he was shocked at the conduct of his colleagues. In Sierra
Pacific's brief he is quoted as saying: "In my entire career, yes, my entire career, I have never
seen anything like this. Never." He says that as he left he told his colleagues: "It's
called the Department of Justice. It's not called the Department of Revenue." [...] What's
inexcusable is that Justice has ignored the message of a 1935 Supreme Court opinion that ruled that
Justice's interest is not "that it shall win a case, but that Justice shall be done."
Dangerous
Words From Democrats on Jobs. Today [1/29/2015], a video clip from Loretta Lynch's confirmation
hearing in the Senate has been making the rounds. The video, taken while she is being examined by
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to determine her fitness to serve on Obama's Cabinet as Attorney General,
replacing Eric Holder who still holds the job despite being held in Contempt of Congress and having
resigned months ago.
Liberal
GW Professor: Obama Guilty of 'Violations of His Oath of Office'. At the Attorney
General Nomination Hearing for Loretta Lynch, George Washington University Law School professor and
nationally recognized legal scholar Jonathan Turley, scathingly rebuked actions taken by President
Obama and current Attorney General Eric Holder, saying that the "Justice Department is at the
epicenter of a constitutional crisis."
Outgoing
Attorney General Eric Holder Takes Parting Shot at Republicans. In what was likely one
of his last news conferences as head of the Justice Department, outgoing Attorney General Eric
Holder today accused Republican critics of being "a little irresponsible" last week during Senate
hearings to vet his likely replacement. He said many of the questions posed to nominee Loretta
Lynch and other witnesses over two days were "not particularly relevant" to Lynch's qualifications,
and a "notion that somehow or another this Justice Department has been politicized" seemed to
"permeate that hearing both the first day and the second day."
Eric
Holder: I fixed George W. Bush's partisan Justice Department. Attorney General Eric
Holder pushed back against Republicans who said the Justice Department, under his leadership, had
become little more than a political machine to push liberal causes — and said that he's
actually cleaned up all the politicking that had taken place under the former Bush administration.
Eric
Holder's Justice Department rocked by nepotism charges. The head of a Justice
Department law enforcement office used his position to secure a job for his son and other relatives,
the agency's internal watchdog said Wednesday [2/4/2015], the latest in a string of reports that
have repeatedly found examples of nepotism at the department.
Guantanamo
adviser: DOJ allowed Pentagon to bypass Congress in Taliban-Bergdahl swap. Eric
Holder's Justice Department green-lighted the decision not to notify Congress — as
required by law — before the Pentagon traded five Taliban fighters for Army Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl last year, the Obama administration's point person on Guantanamo Bay policy testified
Thursday [2/5/2015]. Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, defense official Brian
McKeon was questioned on what is still a sore spot for many members of Congress: that the
administration went forward with the Taliban-Bergdahl swap without giving Congress the typically
required 30-day notification.
House
Investigators: DOJ Forced Banks to Donate to Left-Wing Groups. Justice Department
officials forced Bank of America and Citigroup to donate to left-wing activist groups as part of a
deal to end an investigation into the banks' policies leading up to the 2008 financial crisis,
according to congressional investigators. [...] The settlements were hailed as landmark deals that
would help people who lost money in the 2008 financial crisis.
Justice
Department watchdog report charges nepotism at Interpol office. A new report by the
Justice Department inspector general's office has claimed that the executive officer at Interpol's
Washington D.C. office used his position to secure work for his son and other relatives and
acquaintances. In a report released Wednesday [2/4/2015], the Justice Department watchdog found
that other high-ranking agency officials had also used their position to help get internships for people
they know, contributing to what it called "a pervasive culture of nepotism and favoritism."
Eric
Holder: Politicize the Department of Justice, moi? Outgoing Attorney General Eric
Holder seems determined to leave 'em laughing. How else can we interpret his claim earlier this week
that there has "been no politicization" of the Justice Department under his watch? [...] The Department of
Justice's own Inspector General found that one office in that division "passed over candidates who had
stellar academic credentials with some of the best law firms in the country" in order to hire others they
preferred, a majority of whom came from just five advocacy organizations that are political allies of
the Obama administration.
Eric
Holder: Inability to Pass Gun Control My 'Single Failure'. On Sunday [2/8/2015], MSNBC
aired Melissa Harris-Perry's interview of Attorney General Eric Holder and he said the "single
failure" of his tenure as AG was the failure to secure gun control. [...] He did not address the
resounding defeat Americans dealt to gun control and gun control candidates during the 2014 midterm
elections.
The Disgraceful Exit of Eric Holder.
Disgraced Obama Administration Attorney General Eric Holder is leaving office under the cloud of
scandal... but you wouldn't know it from the way reporters are mentioning his exit. Holder is the
first Attorney General in U.S. history to be held in criminal contempt by the House of Representatives.
Holder earned his contempt charge for refusing to turn over documents related to the investigation of the
Fast and Furious gun running plot that saw the ATF and DOJ run thousands of guns to the Sinaloa drug cartel.
The continuing investigation into Fast and Furious suggests the possibility of criminal conspiracy within the
Department of Justice to withhold evidence of who authorized the gun-running plot, and who ondoned the order
to supply the cartel with firearms.
Small Justice. Eric Holder's
divisive tenure at the Justice Department is coming to a close, in at least one area, on a somewhat
positive note. Last month, the outgoing attorney general announced that he would scale back the
Justice Department's "equitable sharing" program, under which state and local police forces could
use federal law to seize property and assets from citizens without charging them with crimes. When
operating on federal mandates, the police departments kept up to 80 percent of the seized assets,
while federal agencies "adopted" the rest. "With this new policy, effective immediately, the Justice
Department is taking an important step to prohibit federal agency adoptions of state and local seizures,
except for public safety reasons," Holder said.
It's the Virgins, Stupid.
Eric Holder is planning conferences on the root causes of terrorism. That was his excuse for sitting out the "I am
Charlie" demonstrations, even though he was in Paris at the time. That was a non sequitur, of course. No reason
why you can't do both. But there was a bigger story here. Why was the Attorney General representing us?
I can see why the President wasn't there. He didn't want to run into Bibi Netanyahu. Plus he has a major problem
condemning terrorism. But the Attorney General?
Eric
Holder Blames Fox News For Concern About 'Radical Islam'. Outgoing Attorney General
Eric Holder mocked Fox News at the National Press Club Tuesday for talking so much about the Obama
administration's refusal to use the term "radical Islam." HOLDER: Whenever you're getting
criticized by both sides, it probably means you're probably getting right. We spend more time, more
time talking about what you call it, as opposed to what do you do about it, you know? I mean really.
If Fox didn't talk about this, they would have nothing else to talk about, it seems to me.
[Italics in original.]
NYT
Journalist James Risen Rips Holder: He's Sent a Message to Dictators That It's Okay To Jail
Journalists. New York Times investigative reporter James Risen has been
embroiled in an ugly court battle with the Department of Justice for years (including prior to the
Obama administration). DOJ and Attorney General Eric Holder have been fighting with the power of the
federal government to get him thrown in jail and have gone to extensive lengths to find out who his sources
are. Yesterday [2/17/2015], Holder attended a free press event at the National Press Club in
Washington D.C. where he claimed to know the importance of a free press in a properly functioning democracy
and that the administration has gone easy on whistleblowers and leakers. The opposite is true.
Eric
Holder: 'We're Not at a Time of War'. The Attorney General tells reporters that the
U.S. isn't at war against ISIS — never mind all those airstrikes, and all those troops
deployed in Iraq.
The Liberal Circus.
Attorney General Eric Holder came into office alleging racism and calling the American people
cowards, and six years later is exiting, still blaming racism for his own self-inflicted failures.
In between, Holder became the first attorney general to be cited for contempt by Congress. He
stonewalled the Fast and Furious investigations. His plans to try terrorists in federal civilian
courts were tabled almost immediately. He ordered electronic taps and surveillance on the
communications of Associated Press and Fox reporters for supposed leaks. He ignored wrongdoing in
the IRS mess, a scandal that continues to grow. He got caught using his government jet to take his
daughters and their boyfriends to the Belmont Stakes. But Holder will be remembered largely for
his racialist tenure. He dropped a strong case of voting intimidation by armed Black Panthers at the
polls. In congressional testimony, he referred to blacks as "my people"; anyone else —
except Joe Biden — who had said the same would have been asked to resign.
Holder
snubs Fox, refuses exit interview. Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder has denied
Fox News the chance to interview him as he leaves his position, even as he grants interviews to many
of its competitors, the network said Thursday [2/26/2015]. "We learned today that Attorney General Eric
Holder has conducted interviews with ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Politico, while excluding FOX News," said Fox's
executive vice president for news, Michael Clemente, in a statement. "The Attorney General's decision
does a deep disservice to America's largest cable news audience and the interests of a free press."
Eric
Holder's parting shot: It's too hard to bring civil rights cases. Attorney General
Eric Holder plans to push, during his final weeks in office, a new standard of proof for civil-rights
offenses, saying in an exit interview with POLITICO that such a change would make the federal government "a
better backstop" against discrimination in cases like Ferguson and Trayvon Martin. In a lengthy discussion
ranging from his own exposure to the civil rights movement of the '60s to today's controversies surrounding the
shootings of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, Holder also acknowledged that he felt some of his own struggles
with Republicans in Congress during his six years in office were driven partly by race.
Eric
Holder hits American conservatives for using race against him in exit interview.
Attorney General Eric Holder suggested Friday [2/27/2015] that the Obama administration's opponents
have in part staked out their positions because he and the president are black. 'There have been
times when I thought that's at least a piece of it,' he said. But it's 'hard to look into people's
minds, you know, their hearts.' The graceless exit interview will become grist for conservatives
who remain convinced that Holder has used race issues to deflect attention from legitimate criticisms.
Tearful
Obama bids Holder farewell. A tearful President Obama on Friday [2/27/2015] bid
goodbye to outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, one of his closest friends in the administration.
"I'll just come out and say it — he has been one of our finest," Obama said at the
Justice Department, where Holder's official portrait was unveiled.
Eric
Holder's Parting Advice to America: 'Read Malcolm X'. President Obama's outgoing
Attorney General Eric Holder made an eyebrow-raising book recommendation in his exit interview with
Politico on Friday [2/27/2015]. Asked by Politico's Mike Allen to name the one book Holder would
recommend for a young man coming to Washington to read, Holder recommended the work of controversial
civil rights figure Malcolm X.
The Editor says...
I guess that's a question that should have come up during Mr. Holder's confirmation hearings years ago. Malcolm X,
a/k/a El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was a Muslim and a troublemaker.*
That's Eric Holder's standard.
Lawyer:
Department of Justice Shut Down Search For Lois Lerner's Emails. The Department of
Justice blocked an attempt to force the Internal Revenue Service to search for Lois Lerner's missing
emails at off-site storage facilities, according to a lawyer pushing to obtain the emails. The
IRS never looked for Lerner's backup email tapes at the West Virginia storage facility where they
were being housed. Treasury deputy inspector general Timothy Camus told Congress that the IRS never
asked IT professionals at the New Martinsville, W.V. storage site for the backup tapes. Camus only
found the backup tape for Lerner's missing 2011 emails about two weeks ago.
Holder's
Damaging 'Disparate Impact' Gambit. Eric Holder's Justice Department is about to
charge the Ferguson Police Department with racial bias, reports the New York Times. The Ferguson
police will then face a choice: Agree to costly and cumbersome oversight by Justice Department lawyers,
none of whom have any experience with policing, or fight the federal government in court, also at enormous
expense. The consequences for Ferguson will be bad enough, but the Justice Department could be
creating a new legal standard for policing that will hurt public safety nationwide.
Petraeus
Is Protected by a Politicized Justice Department. [Scroll down] Had he not negotiated a plea,
Petraeus should have been charged in a multi-count indictment. If he wanted to dispose of the case
without a trial that would have further disgraced him, he should have been required to plead guilty to at
least one felony count and to have admitted his lies to government officials — misrepresentations
that, under the sentencing guidelines that apply to people who don't get special treatment, instruct judges
to impose a term of incarceration. Petraeus, instead, will get a slap on the wrist.
Holder
Frames Ferguson PD For Racism Using Bogus 'Disparate Impact' Stats. Unable to pin
racism charges on Ferguson policeman Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, Attorney
General Eric Holder is using half-baked data to manufacture a case of racism against his entire
police force.
Holder:
I'm Prepared to Dismantle the Ferguson Police Force. Despite a Justice Department
report clearing police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, Attorney General Eric
Holder says he will do everything he can to change the law enforcement culture in Ferguson, Mo. If
he feels the need to, Holder says he will seek to dismantle the Ferguson Police Department.
Holder:
I'm Prepared To Dismantle Ferguson PD, If Necessary. Attorney General Eric Holder is
convinced that there's major problems within the Ferguson Police Department, and he's willing to
dismantle the entire force if necessary. In an interview with Friday's White House pool reporter
on the Department of Justice's critical Ferguson report, Holder said, "We are prepared to use all
the powers that we have... to ensure that the situation changes there. That means everything
from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure."
Threats
to Voting Rights Remain, Selma Gathering Is Told. [Eric] Holder spoke at ceremonies
before veterans of the civil rights era and ordinary citizens who gathered here [3/8/2015] for a
commemorative march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of a violent
confrontation between the police and protesters that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
"It has been clear in recent years that fair and free access to the franchise is still, in some areas,
under siege," said Mr. Holder, speaking at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church.
Ferguson
fake out: Justice Department's bogus report. The Justice report doesn't prove disparate treatment,
let alone discrimination. In fact, it looks more like something ginned up to distract from the
embarrassing fact that Justice (in another report released the same day) wound up fully validating the
findings of the Ferguson grand jury. Racism is serious, and those engaging in it should be
shamed — but we should have real evidence before accusing others of it. And every
one of the Justice report's main claims of evidence of discrimination falls short.
Holder
Used Secret Email Address, Too. Attorney General Eric Holder used secretive email
accounts under aliases during his tenure at the Justice Department, raising fresh questions about
the Obama administration's compliance with federal records laws as former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton reels from her own email scandal. Holder has emailed under the nom de plume "Henry
Yearwood" in the past, former Justice Department officials say. The Huffington Post reported
Tuesday that Holder had used three aliases.
Justice
Department Protected Convicted Child Rapists. The Department of Justice (DOJ)
protected 58 sex offenders, including convicted child rapists, in its witness protection program,
according to an audit by the agency's Office of Inspector General (OIG). Until 2012, the U.S.
Marshals Service, which administers the Federal Witness Security (WITSEC) Program, had no idea how
many sex offenders it had admitted into the program. By July 2014, the DOJ identified 58
individuals, who "at some point in time, had been admitted into the WITSEC Program." Participants in
the program are given a new identity, place to live, and a government stipend for 18 months.
Surprise:
Eric Holder Also Used Secret Email Aliases. The DOJ states that the secret email
account in no way interfere with Congressional oversight nor FOIA requests. As long as the
requester knows what those email addresses are that no one knows. And, "the official told
The Huffington Post[,] Holder has used the aliases to prevent spam and to keep his inbox from being
overwhelmed by the public, not to avoid transparency." Apparently, the federal government
cannot afford a decent spam filter with their teeny tiny $3.8 trillion budget. And, how
dare you pesky Citizens dare email the top cop! But, wait, it gets better!
Holder
Gets His Wish: An Open War On Police Officers. The latest casualties in Eric Holder's
anti-cop race war are two Ferguson, Mo., officers shot at a protest rally. The ambush follows
the attorney general smearing the entire Ferguson police force as racist.
Ex-FBI
Official: Holder Deliberately 'Eclipsed' Darren Wilson's Exoneration. Attorney General
Eric Holder deliberately "eclipsed" a report exonerating former Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer
Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9, 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown by releasing another report the
same day accusing the Ferguson Police Department of racism, a former FBI official told CNSNews.com.
"Eric Holder knew in the fall that there was zero evidence to continue pursuing a case against Darren
Wilson. He had seven months to make an announcement," former FBI assistant director Ronald Hosko
pointed out.
Holder goes
out swinging. Attorney General Eric Holder is speaking his mind in his final days in
office, swiping at GOP antagonists and leaving the Department of Justice on his own terms. Holder
has ridiculed Senate Republicans for delaying the nomination of his successor, Loretta Lynch,
arguing it is only keeping a man that the House in 2012 held in contempt of Congress in office
longer. "You would actually think that her process would be sped up given their
desire to see me out of office," he said at the National Press Club last month.
An Activist to the End.
Eric Holder approached his time in the attorney general's office not as a sober upholder of the law
but as a straightforward liberal activist. He was appointed by President Obama not to enforce the
law but to change and twist it according to liberal preferences. As he ends his tenure, he is taking
a victory lap for his contributions to the cause. That this work meant thwarting the will of the
America people doesn't bother him in the least. Referring to gay marriage, he wrote recently, "I am proud
to have had the opportunity not only to watch this great national pivot, but to take part in it."
By "national pivot," he means the legal elite's disregard for existing law in favor of their ideology.
Eric Holder:
Attorney General for life? There was a time when Republicans were eager to have Eric
Holder gone from the Justice Department. That time isn't now. GOP lawmakers began calling for the
attorney general's resignation as early as 2011, and they even held him in contempt of Congress a year later.
Nowadays the issue keeping Holder in office has nothing to do with him, or Loretta Lynch, the Brooklyn U.S. attorney
President Barack Obama picked to succeed him.
DOJ
Lawyers Argue Government Has No Duty to Search Hillary Emails. Justice Department
lawyers argued Thursday [3/19/2015] the federal government has no responsibility produce Hillary Clinton's
private emails in response to Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Politico reported: "FOIA
creates no obligation for an agency to search for and produce records that it does not possess and
control," Justice lawyer Matthew Collette and Catherine Dorsey wrote in the government's first
written court submission on the Hillary Clinton email issue. The filing (posted here) came in
response to a motion by conservative gadfly Larry Klayman asking for contempt proceedings against
Clinton and one of her former top aides.
IRS's
Lois Lerner won't be charged with contempt. The Obama administration informed House
Speaker John A. Boehner this week it will not prosecute former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner for
contempt of Congress, concluding that she did not waive her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering
questions when she was called to testify nearly two years ago. Ms. Lerner, the figure at the center
of the IRS's tea party targeting scandal, is still facing investigation over the intrusive scrutiny of
conservative groups, but the decision by U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen does away with at least some of her
legal jeopardy.
Obama
"Justice" Department Charges Menendez... But Not Reid. The Obama Justice Department
has filed its much anticipated corruption indictment against Senator Robert Menendez. He is the New
Jersey Democrat who, from his powerful senior seat on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, has
vehemently opposed President Obama's negotiations with the jihadist regime in Iran, as well as his
outreach to Castro's Cuba.
Missouri
lieutenant governor: 'There is more racism in the Justice Department' than in the St. Louis
area. Missouri's lieutenant governor lashed out at the Justice Department on Monday [4/6/2015],
accusing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration of racism in the wake of the fatal
police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson last year. "There is more
racism in the Justice Department than there is in anywhere I see in the St. Louis area," Lt. Gov. Peter
Kinder said in an interview with NewsMaxTV Monday [3/16/2015].
The
deception of the Obama Department of Justice. Throughout Barack Obama's tenure in the
White House he's been accused of leading a lawless presidency and cheapening the rule of law through
his Department of Justice. Many say these accusations are simply based in politics, but a closer
look at the way the Department of Justice has handled multiple cases in federal court suggest
misleading or lying to judges is a habit, not a mistake. Most recently, we've seen
this happen in the case surrounding President Obama's executive action on illegal immigration.
Justice
Department officials may have shared taxpayer info with White House. Attorneys from
the Department of Justice's tax division may have improperly shared confidential taxpayer
information with President Obama's White House staff for political reasons, a watchdog group said.
Cause of Action, a nonprofit government watchdog group, filed a series of Freedom of Information Act
requests Wednesday [4/15/2015] for records demonstrating whether Justice attorneys — some
of whom worked directly on elements of the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal —
leaked protected information to Obama administration officials while detailed to the Office of
White House Counsel.
The
Chicago Treason Network. As Attorney General, Eric Holder has served the role of
Obama's pit bull. Holder's Department of Justice has elevated racial agitation to a high art,
political correctness to an Orwellian contact sport, and gun control into a religion. His
fingerprints are all over the administration's various scandals, from Fast and Furious to Ferguson.
Like other administration officials, Holder's history and actions portray a man dedicated to overthrowing
Constitutional government.
Eric
Holder's legacy. Prior attorneys general of both political parties, such as Benjamin
Civiletti, Griffin Bell, Ed Meese and Michael Mukasey, have fulfilled that duty to the highest
ethical and professional standards. But not Eric Holder. He put the interests of his political
boss first, and the interests of the administration of justice a very distant second. When President
Obama bent, broke, changed or rewrote the law, the person at his side advising him how to do it was
Eric Holder. All the while, he maintained a facade of respect for the rule of law, something for
which he and the president have, at times, shown utter contempt. Mr. Holder's failure to enforce
federal laws such as our immigration statutes on a wholesale basis is a particularly acute betrayal of
the most basic standard that applies to the attorney general.
A
calculated corruptor of justice. The first attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress has
demonstrated shocking contempt for the law, and the ability to abuse and corrupt it for the political and social
agenda of this president. He has assaulted freedom of speech and press at every turn, stonewalled all
investigations into widespread corruption within the administration, undermined and obstructed the work of the
agencies' own inspectors general, and targeted individuals who dared challenge any of it. He has tirelessly
protected and promoted corrupt prosecutors and scattered ticking time bombs.
Holder:
Historians Will View My Tenure As 'Golden Age' Of Justice Dept. During his farewell address to the
Justice Department Friday [4/24/2015], Attorney General Eric Holder referred to his tenure at the Department of
Justice as its "golden age" and in the same mold as Robert Kennedy's storied tenure. Loretta Lynch will
take over the department following the Senate's 56-43 confirmation vote Thursday [4/23/2015].
Holder's
Legacy Of Politicization. If there's a government agency that ought to stay above the
political fray, it's the Justice Department. But outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder used his
department to pursue a racially polarizing political agenda.
Eric
Holder's legacy: The good, the bad and the very ugly. Eric Holder is now the former
attorney general of the United States. Which invites the question: what will his legacy be as
America's top law enforcement officer? I suspect history will find our eighty-second attorney
general more reviled than revered. When he looked in the mirror, Holder seemed to see the visage
of Bobby Kennedy — a champion of civil rights. His detractors, and there were many, saw
someone who more closely resembled John Mitchell, Nixon's political hatchet man who, as attorney
general, did his boss's bidding, covered it up and went to prison.
Interracial
Crime: Media-driven versus Statistical Realities. The FBI does not record murders by
victim's race. But no one could argue that whites murder blacks at a higher rate than blacks murder
whites, given that blacks are 6.8 times as likely to murder overall. Yet neither President Obama nor
his longtime consigliere, former Attorney General Eric Holder who famously said that we are "a nation of cowards"
when it comes to "race related issues" that "continue to divide us," will speak of these statistics.
Instead, the Race Industry cherry-picks violent incidents that they can exploit and then falsify as a
narrative, to make it appear that blacks nationwide are under constant assault by racist whites.
Especially white cops. They isolate a given anecdote and then speak as if it were the rule not the
exception, for their political and financial gain.
This
Taxpayer-Funded Video Tribute to Eric Holder Brought to You by the DOJ. When Attorney
General Eric Holder's reign at the Justice Department ended earlier this month, readers of National
Review probably hoped it would mean the end of stories about Holder's seemingly inexhaustible
misbehavior and legal shenanigans. But apparently he could not leave without one last abuse of
taxpayer funds.
Hymn to Holder.
Candidate Obama's presidential campaign cultivated a cult of personality that conforms rather glaringly to
Obama's conception of himself. But Eric Holder? The guy is a sort of Mini-Me version of
Obama with a thick overlay of outright stupidity. But he too is a legend in his own mind.
As a parting shot at the American people, the Department of Justice now abuses us with a video saluting
Holder's greatness. [Video clip]
'Broken
Windows' policing is not broken. Tragically, a surge in violent victimizations has swept across
several American cities in the past two weeks. This may well be a reflection of what happens in the public
square when the forces of order are weakened or demoralized. [...] Data from every major report show profound
declines in crime in the U.S. over the past two decades, accompanied with sharp increases in incarceration.
In this sense, our court system has worked. But the Obama Administration's Department of Justice has shown
troubling signs it hopes to use racial politics to prevail over the courts and public safety.
Eric
Holder claims US could strike deal with Edward Snowden to bring him back from exile.
Eric Holder believes America could strike a deal with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to see
him return from exile in Russia to the United States. The former Attorney General, who charged
Snowden with three felony counts of espionage for leaking thousands of government papers to the
press, told Yahoo News it is a 'possibility' as he acknowledged the case prompted a 'necessary
debate' about secrecy.
Eric
Holder: The 'Possibility Exists' That Edward Snowden Could Come Home. In a subtle yet
remarkable shift in tone, former Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the "possibility
exists" that the Justice Department could forge a deal with fugitive leaker Edward Snowden that
could bring him home. Speaking to Yahoo News, Holder said "we are in a different place as a
result of the Snowden disclosures," adding that Snowden's revelations about the size and scope of
the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance programs "spurred a necessary debate.["]
Eric
Holder: Supreme Court justice? Former Attorney General Eric Holder says he has no interest in
returning to public life, even if offered a seat on the Supreme Court. "I greatly enjoyed my career in
public service, and I'll stay involved in political life in some form or fashion, but in terms of my own career,
I think this is my last stop," Holder told The National Law Journal, fresh off his decision to rejoin the
Covington & Burling law firm.
Family:
DOJ Used Perjured Testimony to Secure Guilty Verdict on War Vets Working as Blackwater Guards.
Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors used perjured testimony to secure guilty verdicts for four decorated
veterans accused of indiscriminately shooting into a crowd of Iraqi civilians in September 2007 while working
as private contractors for Blackwater, argue some of the defendants' family members.
Is
a Criminal Probe of Clinton Near? The U.S. Department of Justice has been asked to
open a criminal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's mishandling of
classified information in emails she sent through her unauthorized, insecure private email server.
Whether such a probe, if it happens, will actually accomplish anything is a separate question.
That's because the DoJ is headed by Obama appointee Loretta Lynch who is essentially a carbon copy
of her predecessor, the corrupt Eric Holder, a man who was held in contempt by the U.S. House of
Representatives and who came close to getting impeached for misconduct in office.
Holder's Hatchet Job. One lesson should have been
driven home from the shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014: racial interpretations
of complex events are dangerous. The media and Eric Holder's Justice Department initially cast Wilson as a racist who shot an
innocent black youth. They were, as we now know, flat wrong. Not only did a state grand jury decline to prosecute Wilson
last fall, but the Justice Department itself backtracked and recommended against federal prosecution. The evidence confirmed
that Wilson acted in self-defense and didn't provide a whiff of support for allegations of anti-black bias.
Ted
Cruz [is the] Best Choice to End Lawlessness at [the] Justice Department. No matter what issue you care about most, all policy roads
lead through the Justice Department bureaucracy. If you care about energy, national security, religious liberty, immigration or the power of
government, it is the Justice Department lawyers that develop the intricate legal policies that support the agency decisions. They are the
lawyers that make the litigation decisions. That's precisely why Obama installed a radical ideological crony like Eric Holder to lead the
place. When Obama radicalized the Justice Department, he radicalized the government.
Voter Fraud: We See Dead People. Remember the
Black Panther Party thugs who stood outside the polls armed with clubs? Though they were charged with voter intimidation, Obama's DOJ arrogantly and
without apology outrageously dropped the charges because the perpetrators were black.
Former
Attorney General Eric Holder Sees 'Younger Eric' in Black Lives Matter. Former Attorney General Eric Holder had
advice and praise for the Black Lives Matter movement, comparing the radical leftist anti-police activist group to both Dr.
Martin Luther King and "the younger Eric." In an interview with South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison,
Holder lauded the group for being disruptive, saying, "I think that they've disrupted things, but that's what social change
in this country is really all about."
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Operation
Fast & Furious. Operation Fast and Furious was a BATF led operation that sold guns to the drug lords in Mexico
through intermediaries in a supposed attempt to track the guns and the channels feeding the drug lords. Trouble is, the
program actually put over 2000 high powered rifles, including 50 caliber sniper rifles, into the hands of the Drug Lords
never intended to track them. The GPS tracking devices were intentionally left off. Over 1500 of these weapons are
still "missing." Ultimately, the Gun Stores involved and the agents themselves became whistleblowers because of their
concerns that our own government was, in effect, recklessly and illegally arming the Mexican Drug Cartels. As a result,
several Americans have been killed by these weapons, including US Law Enforcement officers, and over 200 Mexican citizens have
been killed. It is patently illegal to do what the BATF did, and the operation was supported and directed by the Department
of Justice, over which Eric Holder, President Obama's Attorney General presides.
Holder
used Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's name for emails while in office. Former Attorney General Eric Holder used the birth
name of basketball icon Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as an alias for his official Justice Department email account, according to new
documents revealed Thursday [2/25/2016]. The Justice Department said in response to a Vice News request under the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) that Holder used the name "Lew Alcindor" in email conversations with his staffers. His own name
does not appear in the emails. The disclosure raises new questions about Obama administration officials' email practices,
following controversy over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's unconventional email setup.
Judge
Orders White House To Stop Hiding Its Bogus Global Warming 'Proof'. [Scroll down] The released material is not
highly sensitive. So one wonders why the government bothered to redact it in the first place — and fought its release in
court for over a year. Upon assuming office, Holdren's boss, President Obama, and his attorney general, Eric Holder, issued
guidance telling agencies not to withhold information just because they can, or based on technicalities, and to err on the side of
disclosure, rather than secrecy. As Holder once noted, "On his first full day in office, January 21, 2009, President
Obama issued a memorandum to the heads of all departments and agencies on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The President
directed that FOIA 'should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.'" But
that commitment to transparency has been flouted throughout the government, especially in Holder's own Justice Department.
Obama
relents on Fast & Furious executive privilege, turns records over to Congress. The Obama administration caved to a judge's
order Friday [4/8/2016] and sent documents from the botched Fast & Furious gun-running operation to Congress, complying with a subpoena
the House Oversight Committee issued years ago. President Obama had claimed executive privilege in trying to shield the documents
from Congress, but a federal judge rejected that, insisting lawmakers had a right to see the information in order to complete their
investigation into an operation that saw thousands of guns trafficked into Mexico, with the administration's knowledge. With just
hours to go before the judge's 60-day deadline, the administration complied Friday [4/8/2016].
Don't Be Fooled: The
White House Is Still Stonewalling Fast & Furious. There has long been speculation that Operation Fast and Furious, one
of up to ten gun-walking operations in states along the southern border, was an attempt to add material support to the Obama
Administration's so called "90-percent lie." Soon after taking office, President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed the blatant falsehood that 90-percent of the guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico came
from gun dealers in the United States. The reality was that only 8-percent were traced to American gun dealers.
Holder
tried to stonewall, spin 'Fast and Furious' probe, panel says. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, President
Barack Obama's pick to run the Justice Department, played a crucial role in an effort to cover up the government's "Fast and
Furious" Mexican gun trafficking scandal, a congressional investigative panel said Thursday [4/14/2016]. "Senior Justice
Department official — including Attorney General Eric Holder — intensely followed and managed an effort
to carefully limit and obstruct the information produced to Congress," the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform said in a report about a trove of thousands of documents finally turned over by the
administration after about five years of delays.
Documents
confirm Eric Holder's role in Fast and Furious cover-up. "Fast and Furious" is back in the news. The
reason? In January, Judge Amy Berman, an Obama appointee, ordered the Department of Justice to produce documents
relating to the "gun walking" scandal that Congress had been seeking for four years. DOJ finally produced them, some
20,000 pages worth, this month. [...] Having reviewed these documents, Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, has released a memo summarizing what they show. [...] Holder and his subordinates:
1. Presumed that allegations about gunwalking in Arizona were false and refused to adjust when documents and
evidence showed otherwise. 2. Politicized decisions about how and whether to comply with the congressional
investigation. 3. Devised strategies to redact or otherwise withhold relevant information from Congress and
the public. 4. Isolated the fallout from the Fast and Furious scandal to ATF leadership and the U.S.
Attorney's Office in Arizona. 5. Created a culture of animosity towards congressional oversight.
Holder
Hosts 'Lawyers for Hillary' as FBI Investigation Goes On. The FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton continues,
but that isn't stopping the former head of the Department of Justice from holding a fundraiser for the Democratic
presidential candidate. Julianna Margulies, who played a political spouse betrayed by her husband, will also be at the
event. An invitation for the event posted on Hillaryclinton.com reads, "Please join Lawyers for Hillary and Eric H.
Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States and Julianna Margulies for an evening with Hillary."
Lynch's
Transparent Abuse of the Law. When Loretta Lynch succeeded Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General a year ago,
some harbored the tiniest hope that she wouldn't be quite as radical. After all, Holder had done his best to gin up
racial resentment, dismiss a clear case of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party, attack voter photo ID laws,
refuse to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, threaten a congressman trying to get to the truth of the Fast and Furious
Mexican gun-running scandal, and ignore the Internal Revenue Service's mob-like persecution of conservative groups.
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Incompetent Failures in the Obama Administration. [#6] Attorney General Eric Holder's list of dishonors is long and impressive:
being censured by the House of Representatives, withholding subpoenaed documents, lying about a failed gun-walking caper in Mexico (also known as
"Fast and Furious"), and most importantly failing to enforce the law (his constitutional duty) on everything from immigration to Obamacare.
Oh, and Holder illegally billed the government for his private use of a federal Gulfstream jet, snooped on Associated Press reporters, gave
exemptions to "unbiased" IRS officials, and made extensive use of the race card. He also used not one, not two, but three email
aliases to avoid public scrutiny.
We
Are a Fish, Rotting From the Head. Worst of all, perhaps, is the way Barack Obama and his Attorneys General,
Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, have corrupted the Department of Justice. Time after time, federal judges have found
that DOJ lawyers have lied to the courts on behalf to the Obama administration's political agenda. [...] Then there is the
fact that Barack Obama is a scofflaw. Repeatedly, he has ignored the Constitution and violated federal law, refusing to
enforce the nation's immigration laws, imperiously changing his own Obamacare statute with no legal authority, and so
on. Years later, the courts sometimes catch up with him; the administration has lost a number of 9-0 Supreme Court
decisions where its lawbreaking was indisputable. But more broadly, the Obama administration's campaign of lawbreaking
and stonewalling has succeeded.
Holder's Ugly
Legacy. Eric Holder has announced his resignation from his position as U.S. attorney general after almost six
years of turning the Justice Department into a partisan political vehicle instead of a law enforcement institution.
It's too early to tell as of this writing what prompted his resignation. One would like to think his legacy of scandals
and corruption finally caught up to him, but we have no reasonable expectation that this is the case, given this
administration's agility at escaping accountability for any and all wrongdoing. No, I doubt it's his malfeasance in
connection with the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, his obstruction of the congressional investigation into the Internal
Revenue Service scandal or any other of a number of legitimate reasons warranting his repentance and resignation.
Eric
Holder: Fingerprinting Is Racist. Former Attorney General Eric Holder has come out against proposals in
Chicago and New Jersey to require fingerprint background checks of drivers for ride-hailing platforms such as Uber and
Lyft. Why would President Obama's onetime top lawman come out against regulation that is supposed to protect the riding
public? Credit the intersection of two forces. First, Holder's tony corporate law firm, Covington & Burling,
represents Uber. Also, as Holder sees it, requiring drivers to submit fingerprints may "have a discriminatory impact on
communities of color."
Black against White.
When the New Black Panther Party intimidated voters in Philadelphia, Eric Holder's justice department dropped the case. When a white
police officer in Ferguson, MO shot a black man, he was exonerated by all investigations. And yet, the meme pesists: the officer
was guilty of murder. And the death of Freddy Gray was declared a homicide, even if the courts have clearly said otherwise.
Anything to make blacks feel victimized. Anything to make them feel justified in rioting and burning down their neighborhoods.
Alphabet Soup Corruption.
[Scroll down] [Loretta] Lynch, remember, replaced Attorney General Eric Holder, the first and only AG to be held in contempt
by Congress. Holder was at the center of scandals, both personal and professional, ranging from the failed Fast and Furious
gun-running sting operation to the unlawful use of a private government jet to junket family and friends to the Belmont Stakes horse
race. He also dropped a voter intimidation case by the New Black Panther Party and made inflammatory statements such as
referring to African-Americans as "my people" and deriding America as a "nation of cowards" for not framing racial issues in the
manner Holder would have wished. To top it all off, toward the end of his time in DOJ, he was accused of improper and
stealthy surveillance of Associated Press journalists.
Alphabet Soup Corruption.
[Scroll down] [Loretta] Lynch, remember, replaced Attorney General Eric Holder, the first and only AG to be held in contempt by
Congress. Holder was at the center of scandals, both personal and professional, ranging from the failed Fast and Furious
gun-running sting operation to the unlawful use of a private government jet to junket family and friends to the Belmont Stakes horse
race. He also dropped a voter intimidation case by the New Black Panther Party and made inflammatory statements such as referring
to African-Americans as "my people" and deriding America as a "nation of cowards" for not framing racial issues in the manner Holder
would have wished. To top it all off, toward the end of his time in DOJ, he was accused of improper and stealthy surveillance
of Associated Press journalists.
Americans
Affirm Voter ID Laws. Contrary to claims of opponents, minority voter participation has increased in states with
photo ID laws. Nonetheless, President Obama's Department of Justice, the ACLU, and a host of leftist organizations continue
their crusade against photo ID laws, which they liken to images of KKK thugs with billy clubs menacing a polling place in Dixie,
circa 1960. But when it came to billy-club-armed New Black Panthers menacing a Philadelphia precinct in 2008, not to
worry. Obama's DOJ dismissed the voter-intimidation case against the Panthers in 2009, as recounted by J. Christian
Adams, one of the DOJ attorneys who prosecuted the case and resigned in protest when it was dismissed. As an aside, catch
the irony when the Panther with a billy club asks a reporter for his ID.
Leftist
Latino Group Crowns USDA "Federal Agency of the Year" for Cultural Transformation. [Scroll down] To get a clearer idea of LULAC's radical agenda[,]
back in the 1990s one its officials accused a Mexican fast-food eatery of a hate crime for using a Chihuahua in a commercial. LULAC claimed that "Mexican Americans
are treated like dogs, they have to work like dogs, and now they're being portrayed as dogs." Nevertheless, Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, professed
solidarity with LULAC and publicly chanted the group's socialist mission statement — in both English and Spanish — at a LULAC powwow in which he
bragged about the DOJ filing more civil rights cases than in any previous period in the nation's history.
Eric
Holder named to lead effort to destroy GOP after Hillary wins the presidency. This election is for keeps: plans
are being implemented, with President Obama already signed on, staff hired, and money being raised. Perhaps lulled into
complacency by the MSM polls, the Democrats have already constructed and staffed their strategy to permanently disable the
Republican Party. Eric Holder is the perfect henchman, a man above nothing in his quest for political dominance, unbound
by old-fashioned concepts of justice. The GOP will remain in existence as the token opposition, useful for legitimizing
the actual one-party regime, the essential element of the election rituals reminding us of the Republic we once enjoyed.
With
Obama's Help Eric Holder Seeks to 'Break GOP Supremacy' by Redistricting the Country. Because he didn't do
enough damage with his Fast & Furious gun-running scheme, disgraced former Attorney General Eric Holder — with the
help of President Obama — is back on the prowl, looking to redistrict the country to ensure no one can flee from
Democrats' iron grip. He says he's doing it to "break the GOP's supremacy." Really? Yes, really.
Politico reports that Holder "will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of
taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult": [...]
To
'Drain the Swamp,' Start With the Department of Justice. As we approach the inauguration of the 45th president
of the United States, we can only hope that the Department of Justice under a Trump Administration is one that believes and,
more importantly engages, in pursuing justice ethically, legally and with lots of common sense; and one that will institute
department-wide accountability from both the top-down and bottom-up. As someone that has worked in the criminal justice
field for close to 35 years and strongly believed that I knew and understood our criminal justice system more than most,
I am saddened to admit that I was wrong, but I am optimistic that with the right leadership and management accountability,
for positive change in the Justice Department is in fact possible.
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things Sessions can do immediately to restore the rule of law at Justice. There is no part of the federal
government that is more vital to our system of government, yet more damaged by the Obama years, than the Department of
Justice. Whether it's immigration law, domestic crime, jailbreak, crushing the states with lawsuits, or religious
liberty concerns, the Justice Department stands at the nexus of the most important issues of our time. If there was
ever an agency that must be cleaned out from top to bottom, it's the DOJ. And no man is better suited for that job than
Senator Jeff Sessions. He will promote equal justice under the statutes passed by Congress. Moreover, he can
serve as a watchdog to ensure that other areas of the federal government are following the letter of the laws passed by
Congress. While some systemic reforms will have to come from Congress, there are some immediate steps that Sessions can
take on day one to implement triage on the rule of law.
Senator
Jeff Sessions Will Be the Restorative Attorney General We Need. The Obama Justice Department has been the most
politicized in the nation's history. It has weaponized the law against the president's political adversaries and
scapegoats, while insulating the president's allies against investigation and prosecution. It has made progressive
political activism the touchstone of Justice Department hiring, stacking various departmental sections with social-justice
warriors who see the law as their arsenal to achieve fundamental societal transformation. It has exploited the legal
process as an extortionate tool to shakedown deep-pocketed institutions for the purpose of funding progressive
rabble-rousers. It has used law-enforcement to craft political narratives that, for example, propped up Obama's "blame
the video" fraud after the Benghazi massacre; framed the nation's financial institutions for the mortgage meltdown, to the
exclusion of reckless government policies; and undermined Second Amendment rights while getting federal agents killed (see
the "Fast and Furious" debacle, over which Holder was held in contempt of Congress). It has injected racial discrimination
into the enforcement of civil-rights laws in blatant violation of the equal-protection principles those laws are supposed to
assure. It has exhibited a contempt for Congress and a propensity to obstruct legislative oversight that would have
made the Nixon administration blush. It has repeatedly engaged in appalling prosecutorial misconduct and then lied to
federal judges to cover it up. It has not only refused to enforce the immigration laws and sued to prevent sovereign
states from enforcing them, but has also endorsed the president's claimed power to ignore congressional statutes. It is
abetting a war on the nation's police departments, seeking to nationalize them under the guise of baseless and ruinously
divisive smears that cops are hunting down African-American men, and that the justice system is rigged against black people.
Judicial
Watch Wants Sessions to Root Evil Out of DOJ. "When it comes to public policy, the Justice Department is a
locus of evil," said Tom Fitton, who heads Judicial Watch. He said he hopes the agency will follow his group's advice
and put it through a cultural overhaul. "It's just an aggressively ideological and 'what is it we can get away with'
Justice Department," Fitton said. "Sessions has a big fight ahead of him." Fitton hopes the senator will "stop the
war on police" — meaning, roll back the agency's intervention when police departments face steep public criticism,
like in Chicago and Baltimore. And if the department doesn't root out what Fitton believes is intractable internal
corruption, his group will keep pushing.
5 Facts You May Not Know
About Former Attorney General Eric Holder. Former Attorney General Eric Holder was recently hired by the
California legislators to represent them in future legal battles with Trump's White House. Here are five facts you may
not know about him.
Judicial
Watch Goes After 'Another Corrupt Politician — Eric Holder'. Judicial Watch filed a records request
with the California State Legislature on Monday [1/9/2017] regarding the recent hiring of former United States Attorney General Eric
Holder to help the state resist President-elect Donald Trump. Holder's firm, Covington & Burlingt, was hired last week
to serve as "outside counsel" to the legislature.
Trump and Obama's Legacy of
Racism. [Scroll down] Let's look at a few examples, starting with the easiest, the Department of Justice. For eight years, the two attorneys
general have crusaded to let the world know there are too many black people in prison for no reason what so ever — other than white racism.
Too many arrested. Too many prosecuted. Too many convicted. Too many sent away for too long. And once let out, too many return
too soon. They call it Criminal Justice Reform — and it is all about white racism and racist police. From the president on down, they
say the only reason more black people are arrested than white people is that racist white police pick on black people in black neighborhoods.
And if they pulled the cops out of black neighborhoods and put them in white hoods, the crime numbers would flip and white people would be arrested
wildly out of proportion.
Muslim
Brotherhood Front Organizations, U.S. and Canada. The 2008 Holy Land Relief terrorism funding criminal trial
resulted in multiple convictions and was touted as the one of the largest terrorism financing trials in American history.
Expectations were high that the 2008 trial would be followed by further trials involving the listed unindicted co-conspirators
such as CAIR USA and the Islamic Society of North America. However, with the appointment of Eric Holder as the U.S.
Attorney General in 2009, all further actions on this file appear to have been frozen. Holder would later speak at a
conference supporting one of the unindicted co-conspirators.
Eric
Holder Is Getting Paid a Boat Load of Money by California Taxpayers to Oppose President Trump. According to
documents obtained by Judicial Watch, former Attorney General Eric Holder is being paid a boat load of taxpayer money to
fight and oppose President Donald Trump's agenda in California. "We will render our statements to you monthly.
For the initial three-month phase of our engagement, we have agreed to charge the Legislature a fixed fee of $25,000 per
month," the agreement between Covington & Burling Law Firm, where Holder now works, and the California Legislature
states. "This fee will include a maximum of 40 attorney or advisor hours per month."
GOP
wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups. The Obama administration funneled
billions of dollars to activist organizations through a Department of Justice slush fund scheme, according to congressional
investigators. "It's clear partisan politics played a role in the illicit actions that were made," Rep. John
Ratcliffe, R-Texas, told Fox News. "The DOJ is the last place this should have occurred." Findings spearheaded by the
House Judiciary Committee point to a process shrouded in secrecy whereby monies were distributed to a labyrinth of nonprofit
organizations involved with grass-roots activism.
The Obama Regime's Criminal
Syndicate. [Scroll down] Among the radical leftist groups pre-approved by the settlement agreements to directly receive
funds from the banks is none other than The National Council of La Raza, which bills itself as "the nation's largest Hispanic activist
organization." Yet, a brief history lesson on the reality of La Raza, which literally translates to "the race," shows us that the
group has been connected to the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), an extremist Mexican race hate group which firmly believes in
exploiting illegal immigration to bring about 'La Reconquista', a violent overthrow of the southern U.S. states that would be absorbed into
Greater Mexico. [...] According to a February 2016 independent monitor report, there are 147 "HUD-approved counseling agencies" that make up
these third party groups like La Raza that are currently receiving hundreds of millions of dollars directly from the banks under the DOJ
settlement agreements.
Holder:
Obama preparing to get back into political spotlight. Former President Obama is getting ready to jump back into
the political pool, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday [2/28/2017]. Holder said he has been talking with Obama
about different ways to help the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee, according to Politico. Obama asked
Holder to be chairman of the group last year. "He's ready to roll," Holder told reporters at a briefing.
Did
the Attorney General Commit Perjury? No, not Jeff Sessions. Sessions was asked whether representatives of
the Trump campaign had been in contact with Russian officials on behalf of the campaign, and Sessions said he didn't know
anything about that. He hadn't had such contact on behalf of the campaign. His answer was completely and fully
accurate. No one asked Sessions whether he had ever met a Russian. I am talking about Eric Holder, who almost
certainly did commit perjury when testifying under oath before the House Judiciary Committee. We wrote about it
[elsew]here. The story is worth remembering. Holder was asked whether DOJ could prosecute reporters under the
Espionage Act: [...]
Where has she been for the last eight years? Sen.
Feinstein Worries 'The Justice Department Could Become Politicized'. President Trump's nominees for Deputy
Attorney general and Associate Attorney general appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [3/7/2017] for their
confirmation hearing, which took on added importance, given Attorney General Sessions' decision to recuse himself from any
investigation dealing with the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the U.S. election. Even before Rod Rosenstein and
Rachel Brand testified, the committee's ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) called for a special prosecutor to
investigate the alleged Russia-Trump collusion — for which there is still no evidence.
Sessions
asks 46 Obama-era US Attorneys to resign. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked dozens of U.S. attorneys appointed by
former President Obama to submit their resignations, the Department of Justice announced Friday [3/10/2017]. U.S. attorneys are
normally replaced at the beginning of new administrations. Of the 93 U.S. attorneys, 46 remain from the past administration,
according to the Department of Justice.
AG
Sessions Open to Appointing Special Counselor to Review Obama DOJ's Scandals. Attorney General Jeff Sessions
told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Thursday [3/9/2017] that he would consider appointing an outside counsel to look into actions
taken by the Department of Justice during the Obama years. Hewitt asked Sessions if he would be open to appointing an outside
counsel to review the DOJ's actions regarding the IRS case, the Fast and Furious case, and Secretary Clinton's server. The
Department just "had a bad eight years," Hewitt said. "How about an outside counsel, not connected to politics, to review
the DOJ's actions in those matters with authority to bring charges if underlying crimes are uncovered in the course of the
investigation, and just generally to look at how the Department of Justice operated in the highly-politicized Holder-Lynch years?"
The
Rotten Obama Record — and Legacy. [Scroll down] When [Obama] nominated Eric Holder to be
Attorney General, we should have known. Rather than delve into Holder's corrupt reputation, the GOP allowed this man
through without a fight, allowing him to politicize the Justice Department in ways not thought possible. This was the
man who helped Bill Clinton pardon Marc Rich for the quid pro quo of money donations. Holder then: •
Dismissed Black Panther felonies • Sent guns to drug gangs in Mexico to make a case for gun
control • Refused to give information to Congress about "Fast and Furious" •
Sued states for cleaning up voter rolls • Roiled the black community for votes by hyping Trayvon
Martin. The list of ugly things by Holder is long and beyond the pale. When he left, Loretta Lynch followed in his
same corrupt footsteps.
The
7 Most Heinous Crimes of the Obama DOJ. Writing at National Review, former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy
outlines the machinations of the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against alleged insider
trading. Led by the controversial Preet Bharara — since fired by President Trump — the office has
been pilloried in the media for its tactics. As McCarthy notes, there is general concern that "improper and abusive
behavior by prosecutors has reached 'epidemic proportions'." However, that's not the worst of it. McCarthy lists
seven high crimes and misdeameanors of the Obama DOJ that are worth remembering.
Republicans Go to Jail,
Democrats Run Free. Loretta Lynch's predecessor, Attorney General Eric Holder, lied repeatedly about the Fast
and Furious gun-running scandal in which southwestern gun stores sold some 2,000 weapons to dodgy buyers, supposedly so they
could be tracked back to Mexican drug lords and other hoodlums. Alas, only about 700 were recovered. Some of the
1,300 firearms that went astray subsequently were used to murder hundreds of Mexican citizens and two American Border Patrol
agents. No one at Obama's ATF ever paid for this fatal mayhem. Holder was held in contempt of Congress for
refusing to deliver relevant documents to Congressional investigators. So what? Holder finished his service in
peace and now thrives afresh as a private attorney.
DOJ
ends Holder-era 'slush fund' payouts to outside groups. The Justice Department announced Wednesday [6/7/2017] it will no
longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements with big companies directing them to make payouts to outside groups, ending an
Obama-era practice that Republicans decried as a "slush fund" that padded the accounts of liberal interest groups. In a memo sent
to 94 U.S. attorneys' offices early Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would end the practice that allowed companies to
meet settlement burdens by giving money to groups that were neither victims nor parties to the case. Sessions said the money should,
instead, go to the Treasury Department or victims.
Fast
and Furious report slams Holder, DOJ for deception in gun-running scandal. Members of a congressional committee
at a public hearing Wednesday blasted former President Barack Obama and his attorney general for allegedly covering up an
investigation into the death of a Border Patrol agent killed as a result of a botched government gun-running project known as
Operation Fast and Furious. The House Oversight Committee also Wednesday released a scathing, nearly 300-page report
that found Holder's Justice Department tried to hide the facts from the loved ones of slain Border Patrol Brian Terry —
seeing his family as more of a "nuisance" than one deserving straight answers — and slamming Obama's assertion of
executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Fast and Furious.
Holder
Blasted For Fast And Furious Obstruction. Wednesday [6/7/2017], House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) released a 250-plus page report detailing Obama's
Department of Justice's (DOJ) obstruction under Attorney General Eric Holder of the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and
Furious and the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. The report highlights key documents and communications concerning the
Obama/Holder DOJ's stonewalling of Congress and makes it crystal clear why Eric Holder became the only U.S. Attorney General held
in both criminal and civil contempt.
Obama, Holder, and
tyrannical judges put liberty in the crosshairs. A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the possible 2020
presidential run by Barack Obama's gun-running buddy and fellow race-baiter, former US Attorney General Eric Holder.
Not surprisingly, some of my readers dismissed the possibility that Holder could be a serious threat if he were to be the
Democrat nominee, even though I warned against taking such a position based on the "behind-the-scenes" work he is doing with
Obama. Well, the wheels of their agenda will be put in motion later this week. One of the ways Holder and Obama
are hoping to shape the political landscape is through the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC). This group
is working at the grass-roots level to elect enough Democrats in state and local government over the next few years, giving them
the power to control Congressional Redistricting after the 2020 census.
Eric
Holder Rallies Liberal Lawyers Against Trump in San Fran. Former Attorney General Eric Holder told a group of
liberal lawyers to keep fighting at a San Francisco fundraiser Wednesday, continuing his message about using state power to
oppose the Trump administration. Holder, who served during the Obama administration, told his audience not to be afraid
of what President Donald Trump is doing, but he still affirmed that news from the White House is "disturbing," the San
Francisco Chronicle reports. He also said that he worries about the "moral arc of the universe" bending away from
justice, not toward it as Martin Luther King Jr. said. "It's the responsibility of all of us to keep our hands on that
arc," he said. "There is fighting to be done, there are lawsuits to be brought ... You can never underestimate the
power of the American people."
Obama
Sets Sights on Post-2020 Redistricting Efforts at D.C. Fundraiser. On Thursday [7/13/2017], former President Barack Obama
made his first political appearance since leaving office in January at a private fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting
Committee (NDRC). The event was put on to help bankroll the effort of Democrats to take back power after a devastating loss last
November. It was held in a private home and was attended by Obama's former Attorney General Eric Holder and House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi. Holder is currently leading the NDRC. Prior to his appearance at Thursday's [7/13/2017] fundraiser, he held a
pep talk for a group of liberal lawyers and activists in San Francisco and encouraged them to keep fighting President Donald Trump and
his administration.
Eric
Holder hit with Fort Hood 'workplace violence' mockery after Charlottesville remarks. Former Attorney General
Eric Holder's foray into a debate on Saturday's [8/12/2017] violence in Charlottesville, Va., quickly elicited reminders of
his early stance on convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. It wasn't long after a white supremacist gathering
Saturday turned deadly with the killing of Heather Heyer, 32, that former President Obama's top cop pronounced the ordeal
"domestic terrorism." Mr. Holder's assessment of 20-year-old suspect James Alex Fields — who careened his
vehicle into a crowd of protesters — prompted backlash by those familiar with the Justice Department's handling of
the Nov. 5, 2009, Fort Hood massacre, which killed 13.
The
Uranium One Scandal Is Exploding. The Russia/Obama/Clinton scandal that goes generally under the name of
Uranium One is getting harder for the liberal press to cover up. [...] The original story goes back to Peter Schweizer's
Clinton Cash. The scandal is a blockbuster, perhaps the worst involving Barack Obama, Eric Holder's corrupt
Department of Justice, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Holder:
'Our Democracy Is Under Attack' — I Don't Know If I'll Run for Office. On Monday's [10/23/2017]
broadcast of MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show," former Attorney General Eric Holder stated he didn't know if he will ever run for
office and argued that between gerrymandering and voter suppression laws, "our democracy is under attack."
Emails
Appear To Confirm That President Obama's DOJ Funneled 'Slush Fund' Money To Leftist Orgs. On Tuesday [10/24/2017], House
Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) revealed that documents obtained in a separate, ongoing
investigation show that former President Barack Obama's administration directed money intended for victims of Wall Street mortgage
meddling to progressive activist organizations who now form much of the "resistance" to President Donald Trump. Members of the
House Judiciary Committee mentioned several weeks ago that they suspected Obama's Department of Justice had iced out conservative
organizations looking for their share of the more than $1 billion legal settlement the DOJ collected from "big banks" who'd
played a part in the housing crisis of the late 2000s. The DOJ required banks included in the settlement agreement to make
"mandatory donations" to non-profits working on housing and property rights policies.
Obama
Justice Department's liberal slush fund exposed. New internal documents from the Obama Department of Justice
(DoJ) reveal the existence of a DoJ "slush fund" used to fund left-wing groups while intentionally excluding conservative
organizations. Despite sworn assertions before Congress by DoJ representatives that the "Department did not want to be
in the business of picking and choosing which organization may or may not receive any funding under the agreement," a series
of emails exposes the real intent of DoJ leadership and staff to funnel "money toward an organization of our choosing" using
funds obtained via settlement with banks involved in the housing bubble of 2008-2009.
Obama
Justice Department's $1 Billion 'Slush Fund' Boosted Liberal Groups. President Barack Obama's Justice
Department created a "slush fund" of nearly $1 billion using legal settlements with banks and steered those funds to
political allies on the left while excluding conservative groups, internal documents show. The financial institutions,
which made legal settlements with the Obama administration regarding mortgage securities that imploded during the 2008
financial crisis, include Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and JPMorgan Chase. Public
records of the settlement agreements with the Justice Department show that when cash donations to liberal groups are combined
with other donations in the form of loans and a separate settlement with Volkswagen of America Inc., the slush fund may have
topped $3 billion.
How
Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch handed Jeff Sessions a huge present. If the law were properly enforced, there would be fewer incidents of what
the gun grabbers call "gun violence." Fewer incidents to use as propaganda for demanding even more draconian laws limiting the access of law-abiding
citizens to firearms through new laws. Here is the opportunity this enforcement fiasco has created for Sessions, and his boss, President Trump.
Start with a high-profile denunciation of the DOJ's failure over the last 8 years to protect the public. This could be done by either President
Trump or his AG. There surely are instances of people who were not prosecuted and went on to commit crimes. The victims of those crimes can be
highlighted and a finger of responsibility pointed at the DOJ. President Trump then directs, via an executive order, his DOJ to prioritize prosecution
of violations of the background check documentation. A signing ceremony, accompanied by remarks criticizing the failures of AGs Holder and Lynch, and
promising to reverse the harm they have caused by their negligence, would be good.
FBI Plot
Against Trump. This shouldn't be all that surprising given that Barack Obama gleefully weaponized the FBI,
Department of Justice, and various intelligence agencies, and criminalized political differences in the process. A radical
zealot with a desire to fundamentally transform the United States, the 44th president had a limited sense of boundaries.
Obama was more Third World caudillo than president and he was never troubled by hijacking governmental powers to hurt his
opposition, as the conservative groups targeted by his IRS can attest. His race-obsessed first attorney general, Eric Holder,
turned the Justice Department into a virtual arm of the Democratic Party, using the agency to punish the Left's enemies and let
allies run wild. His second attorney general, Loretta Lynch, surreptitiously met with Bill Clinton in an airport hangar,
presumably to cut a shady deal to let Hillary Clinton escape punishment for the many crimes she committed in office.
What Is Obama's
Former Attorney General Hiding? One can only imagine what Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder has to
hide. Despite Obama's claims of "scandal-free" administration and the most transparent, Eric Holder knows he has
serious problems ahead. Holder and the AG who followed him, namely Loretta Lynch were the worst attorneys general in
American history. Corrupt to their rotten cores, the duo. And they used the office to brutalize the American
public, specifically Conservatives.
Law-Abiding Citizens.
In the past few weeks the leftists have all sounded more like the Tea Party than anything else, arguing that the Mueller
investigation into collusion is some sort of Constitutionally guaranteed process that Donald Trump had better not interfere
with, or he will be hounded out of office by raging mobs of Antifa, BLM and Hollywood stars. Eric Holder, mastermind of
such great examples of Constitutionality like Waco and Fast and Furious, who is the only American Attorney General to be held
in contempt of Congress, threatened to unleash the power of Antifa on America's streets should Donald Trump fire
Mueller. This is seditious, it is the ultimate threat of domestic insurrection. No laws have been violated by
Trump, the Constitution has not been violated and since a Special Counsel is highly suspect as a Constitutional act itself,
there are no grounds for unleashing such insurrection other than to take control of the government.
Sr.
Congressional Oversight Member: Everything From Fast & Furious, Benghazi, IRS, & Other Obama Scandals Connected To
Corrupt DOJ & FBI. Congressman Paul Gosar didn't hold back in a recent interview and he's now begging the
American people to pay more attention and demand answers from their political leaders. According to Gosar, the Obama
White House micromanaged everything from drone attacks to illegal surveillance on political opponents and was able to do so
via very carefully placed DOJ and FBI firewalls that to this day continue to insulate Barack Obama and other Obama-related
officials, from justice.
Eric
Holder eyes 2020 presidential bid. Former President Obama's long-serving attorney general, Eric Holder, is
considering a political run in 2020, possibly for president. "We'll see," he said when asked about a bid for the
Democratic nomination. Holder, addressing reporters at a media breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor,
said that he will make a decision this year. "I think I'll make a decision by the end of the year about whether or not
there is another chapter in my government service," he said.
Holder:
DoJ wrong to apologize to tea party groups for IRS targeting. [Eric] Holder said yesterday [2/7/2018] that
apologizing to tea party groups for being targeted by the IRS for their political beliefs was "unnecessary, unfounded and
inconsistent" with the responsibilities of someone who wants to lead the Justice Department. [...] Two federal judges
specifically accused the IRS of targeting conservative groups based on their ideology. If that doesn't warrant an
apology from government, what does?
Obama-backed,
Holder-led group raised more than $11 million in 2017; will target Republicans in 12 states. A redistricting group
that is backed by former President Barack Obama and led by former attorney general Eric Holder raised more than $11 million
last year and has set a new fundraising goal of $30 million to help their upcoming efforts to target Republicans in
12 states. The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), a D.C.-based organization founded in 2016 that is
chaired by Holder, is dedicated to "enacting a comprehensive, multi-cycle Democratic Party redistricting strategy."
Eric
Holder for president? Bring it on! The ads write themselves. Former Obama Attorney General Eric
Holder raised eyebrows last week when he said that he may run for office, as in the Oval Office, and he'd make his final
decision by the end of the year. Given the trail of abuse and misconduct he left in his wake at the Justice Department,
the opposing ads pretty much write themselves. His time in the Obama administration was plagued with corruption that
left a stain on the Justice Department, and he resigned with a dark cloud of scandal hovering over him.
DOJ
to Release 'Fast & Furious' Documents Withheld by Eric Holder. Last week, Obama had the audacity to claim,
again, that his administration was scandal-free. Yeah. No. And maybe now we can finally get the details of
the Obama Administration's obscene 'Fast and Furious' scheme.
DOJ
to give Oversight panel more 'Fast and Furious' documents. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday
that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will provide documents to Congress on the Obama-era program dubbed "Fast and Furious"
that allowed criminals to purchase guns in Phoenix-based gun shops in order to track them into Mexico. The Justice
Department, then run by Eric Holder, declined to provide documents on the program to Congress in 2012 and was held in contempt
of Congress. Today's decision ends six years of litigation with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Everybody Knows.
[Scroll down] Everybody knows that Barack Obama is doubly unaccountable. He is unaccountable by physiognomy and by exquisite
hypocrisy. Holder and Lynch, both also double-unaccountables, subverted the justice system as Obama's attorneys general, criminally
conspired in multiple ways for political ends. Everybody knows that Obama knew about the illegally obtained FISA warrant to spy on
Donald Trump. National security adviser Susan Rice is a numbskull who was valued for race and for lying straight faced.
[...] Power corrupts. Power plus unaccountability turns sophisticated people into incompetent criminals and the uneducated into
destructive, foul-mouthed brats. The Obama administration produced multitudes of both.
Exposing
Eric Holder's Obstruction of Justice. Have they no shame? Just days before it was announced that documents
regarding the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal were to be released after being hidden for six years under executive privilege,
there was former Obama attorney general Eric Holder responding to a question on Bill Maher's show: [...]
Eric
Holder In Hiding as DOJ to Release "Fast and Furious" Documents. Holder's obstruction of justice and lying to
Congress were crimes that went unpunished. As Rep. Darrell Issa, who headed the House Oversight Committee during
the Fast and Furious investigation, has noted. But as with the current scandals involving Hillary Clinton and Uranium
One, pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation, and the corruption of the FISA court process by the FBI and DOJ to aid one
party's attempt to collude with the Russians to overturn a sitting president, Holder was not counting on a Trump election to
expose his corruption.
Eric
Holder Comes Unglued After GOP House Intel Committee Rules No Trump-Russia Collusion. House Intelligence Committee
Republicans announced Monday [3/12/2018] that they found "no evidence of collusion," between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin
in the panel's 'Russia probe.' The Deep State and Democrats aren't taking the news well. Leaker Adam Schiff immediately
blew a gasket and released a ridiculous statement claiming the Republicans don't care about the fact that the Russians may have
leverage over Trump. Former Attorney General Eric 'Fast and Furious' Holder was livid after the GOP House Intel panel
shut down the Trump-Russia probe.
Holder
group will fight citizenship question on census. A Democratic group headed by former U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder will go to court over a decision by the Commerce Department to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census.
Holder said Tuesday [3/27/2018] that the group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, would fight the Trump administration's
decision, arguing that including a citizenship question would drastically lower the response rate on the 2020 census and lead to an
inaccurate count. "We will litigate to stop the Administration from moving forward with this irresponsible decision," Holder
said. "The addition of a citizenship question to the census questionnaire is a direct attack on our representative democracy."
The Editor says...
Exactly the opposite is true. Allowing non-citizens to live in this country illegally, and absorb all the handouts they can find,
and vote, and affect the allocation of congressional districts, is a threat to our republic.
Eric Holder Would Run
For President To Unify The Country. Former Obama administration attorney general Eric Holder speculated this
week on what would incentivize him to run for president. Holder was asked in an interview with the New York Times about
running for the highest office in the land. The reporter asked, "If you were gonna do it, why would you do it. If
you didn't do it, why would you not do it?" Holder said "If I were gonna do it, I'd do it because I would have concluded
that maybe I could unify the country... help unify the country." Holder said he could also "advance" and "repair" the country
as president. Holder said, "I had something to contribute, that would be the thing that would push me toward considering a run."
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.
Eric
Holder to Help Starbucks Train Employees For 'Racial Bias Education Day'. On Tuesday [4/17/2018], Starbucks announced it
will be closing 8,000 stores on May 29 so 175,000 employees can attend a training program that will address implicit bias, promote
inclusion and help prevent discrimination, NBC reports. Eric Holder was tapped as one of the 'experts' to assist with training
the employees. That's all you need to know.
Another
sign Eric Holder might run for president. Ex-Attorney General Eric Holder will speak at the annual New
Hampshire "Politics & Eggs" breakfast hosted by Saint Anselm College and the New England Council, according to a report
Wednesday [4/18/2018]. Holder said again this week that he was still considering a run for the presidency in 2020, and
past speakers at the breakfast include President Trump, Hillary Clinton and presidential aspirants Sen. Ted Cruz of
Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, The Hill reported. Holder said on MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes" this week
that he was "thinking about" a run but that he had not made a final decision. Holder said in March he would only run
if he believed he could unify the country against the Trump administration — a daunting task for former President
Barack Obama's AG, a polarizing figure frequently demonized by Republicans.
Eric
Holder for Prison, Not President. If President Trump could hand-select his 2020 Democratic opponent, he could
do no better than former Obama attorney general Eric Holder, the only Cabinet official held in contempt of Congress for
withholding documents in the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. He is the poster child for the Deep State corruption
that festered under Obama and the politicization of both the DOJ and FBI. The former A.G., who is arguably responsible
for the homicide of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, murdered by guns Holder and Obama funneled to Mexican drug lords, is in
fact considering such a bid.
Here are 1,366 well
sourced examples of Barack Obama's lies, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc.. U.S.
Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath. He said that he had nothing to do with monitoring the emails of
Fox News reporter James Rosen. But it turns out that it was Holder's own signature on the search warrant.
Even the liberal Huffington Post said that Holder should be fired over this. Holder could get five years in
prison. So, did President Obama fire Holder? Of course not! Instead, Obama asked that Holder be
investigated — not by an independent investigating committee — but by Holder himself!
It's
Happening: The Obama-Holder Progressive Left Counter-Offensive. Former President Barack Obama and former
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder have planned — and are leading — a massive counter-offensive to give
the progressive left faction of the Democratic Party control of key state legislative bodies and state supreme courts in time
for congressional redistricting after the 2020 census. If they are successful, Democrats could well control the U.S.
House of Representatives for the decade of the 20s and have in place a progressive left farm team from which to draw leftist
national leaders for many years beyond.
Impeach Rod Rosenstein. Lois Lerner, the former
official at the heart of the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general, were
each held in contempt by Congress. But in both cases, Congress blinked when it came to imposing effective
consequences. In June 2012, Mr. Holder was held in contempt for withholding documents Congress wanted from the
botched Fast and Furious operation that put firearms in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. It was the first time
Congress had taken such a move against a sitting cabinet member. The first contempt resolution referred the attorney
general for criminal charges, while a second launched a civil suit seeking a court to order Justice to turn over the
documents. The Obama Justice Department declined to act on the criminal referral — as everyone knew it
would. Though a judge would ultimately reject the administration's claims of executive privilege, the ruling didn't
come until 2016. By that time Mr. Obama was wrapping up his second term, Mr. Holder had retired, and Fast and
Furious had long since faded from the headlines.
Eric
Holder's Gross Hypocrisy on Police Shootings. Attorney General Eric Holder arrives today in Ferguson, Missouri,
in response to the unrest after a local policeman shot 18-year-old Mike Brown. Holder assured the people of
Missouri: "Our investigation into this matter will be full, it will be fair, and it will be independent." But
Holder's own record belies his lofty promise. As the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1993 to 1997,
Holder was in charge of policing the local police. When police violence spiraled out of control, he did little to
protect Washington residents from rampaging lawmen.
Private
Citizen Eric Holder Rants the Probe 'Must Stop'. Private citizen Eric Holder ranted on Twitter that the probe
by House Republicans of his former corrupt administration 'must stop'. His reasons are a sad commentary on the state of the
Democratic Party. No amount of evidence matters to them. They are perfectly fine with a burgeoning police
state. The probe by the House investigators is 'unprecedented' he says. That's true. We never before had a
fishing expedition by a tainted Special Counsel and unmasking and spying by a former leftist administration. [...] The DoJ
probe is so tainted, there is no way most Americans will believe anything Mueller comes up with. Holder tried to say
the 'disclosure of ongoing investigative material' is 'unprincipled'. That's rich coming from the guy who released FALN
terrorists, Mark Rich, and New Black Panthers with billy clubs at a polling place in Philly.
Eric
Holder says he's interested in being president. Cincinnati Democrats wasted no time with Eric Holder. "Do
you at least have any interest in being president of the United States?" City Councilman Wendell Young asked him Friday —
the first question to the former US attorney general as a who's who of Democrats in the Cincinnati area sat in a cramped law office
conference room. After his standard caveats — he says it's something he needs to talk about with his family and
won't actually decide on until early 2019 — a confident Holder leaned in. "Am I interested it?" he
asked. "Yeah, I'm interested!"
Six
Times the Obama Administration Should Have Appointed Special Counsel. [#4] The IRS scandal: Using the IRS
to target Obama's political enemies during an election year? Obama did try to distance himself from the scandal but
according to a report, IRS employees were "acutely" aware that Obama wanted a crackdown on conservative and Tea Party groups,
and Douglas Shulman, the IRS commissioner, visited the White House a whopping 157 times (more than anyone in Obama's cabinet)
while the IRS abuses occurred. Gee, do you think there's a potential conflict of interest here? Unlike other
scandals where investigations were left to Republicans in Congress, the Obama administration did investigate the IRS
scandal... did you know about this? Yep, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed a DOJ lawyer to run the investigation.
Her main qualification was that she was an Obama donor, and within a few short days of her appointment, it was announced the FBI
was not planning to file any criminal charges connected to the scandal. Of course not.
Eric Holder
says MAGA slogan is 'rooted in fear'. Former Attorney General Eric Holder slammed the mindset of "Make America
Great Again," President Trump's signature slogan, according to a report. "This sort of thinking, this 'Make America
Great' mindset is not only flawed, it's rooted in fear. And it favors an imagined past over a realistic future," Holder
said while speaking at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner late Saturday, according to The Hill. Holder —
who has said he is considering a run for president in 2020 — also asked what time period those who want to
"make America great again" would rewind to if given the opportunity.
Newly Released
Eric Holder Memo: Feds Can Use FISA to Spy on Journalists. The federal government can use the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on journalists. So said a pair of 2015 Justice Department memos, including
one from then-Attorney General Eric Holder. FISA is controversial in itself. The act is supposed to be used to
justify surveillance on foreign targets. But as Reason's Scott Shackford has explained, intelligence agencies often use
it to secretly spy on American citizens, sometimes without a warrant. According to the newly released documents,
obtaining permission to surveil members of the media is not easy, but it is possible. In one memo, dated March 19,
Holder says FISA applications against journalists must be approved by the attorney general and deputy attorney general prior
to being brought before a FISA court.
Eric Holder
as President? Eric Holder has decided to run for president to complete the work of converting America to an
openly recognized communist country. But, he has a few things to answer for before he takes control of the entire law
enforcement apparatus of the United States and begins his war on whites. If you recall, he refused to arrest the Black
Panthers standing outside of a voting center when Barack Obama was elected. It was obvious voter intimidation, but by
claiming that worse had been done to "his" people, he would not prosecute.
Eric
Holder: When Republicans Go Low, 'We Kick Them'; Crowd Chants, "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Not
only are the left-wing shock troops on the ground chasing Republicans out of restaurants, pounding on cars, and cracking
skulls, the Democrat leaders are calling for violence. Dem Congresswoman Maxine Waters previously called for members of
the Trump cabinet to be harassed everywhere they go. Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton also said this
week that Democrats can't be civil with Republicans.
So
I Guess the New Democratic Party Platform Is Violence? Recently, Eric Holder, former attorney general for Obama,
stopped to speak at a political event for Stacy Abrams who is running for governor in Georgia. Holder told the crowd,
"When they go low, you kick them," referring to Republicans. His comment was made after the media has approved and
encouraged attacking or harassing Trump supporters at least 594 times. This type of language is dangerous and
reckless in our current political state. However, Holder does not seem to mind if anyone gets hurt as long as the left
gets power.
Eric
Holder Rallies Resistance Inside Trump Admin: 'We Support You'. Former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sent
a message of encouragement to discontented Justice Department "career employees" on Friday morning [10/19/2018]. "Trump and
Sessions are trying to destroy the traditions of the Justice Department," Holder wrote. "Hope is found in the career employees
who stand for institutional norms. Now is the time for them to continue to be strong — change will come.
We support you." Holder recently made news by pressing for the impeachment of President Trump under the 25th amendment.
Obama's
Organizing for America joins forces with Eric Holder-run group on voter activism. Former President Obama
announced Thursday [12/20/2018] that his political operation, Organizing for America, would be joining forces with the group
run by his former attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., in a striking pre-2020 partnership. The two men announced
the decision in emails to their respective supporters, saying it means Mr. Holder's National Democratic Redistricting
Committee will now have access to Mr. Obama's powerful grassroots network.
Department
Of Justice Continues To Run Interference For The Obama Administration. [Scroll down] There are lots of
"cooperating witnesses" an boodles of physical evidence but the fly in the ointment is that El Chapo has a history of being a
customer of Eric Holder's Justice Department. Under Holder, the only Attorney General to ever be cited for criminal contempt
by the Houses of Representatives, El Chapo was allowed to buy a massive amount of firepower from gun stores in the United States
using straw-buyers and using gun stores who were cooperating with the federal government under what was known as Operation Fast
and Furious. Several of those weapons were recovered from El Chapo's headquarters when he was arrested. Federal
prosecutors don't want the jury of rubes to hear about it. I say rubes because that is plainly how the federal prosecutors
see the jury.
New Attorney
General Needs To Clean House. The liberal direction of the DOJ is nothing new. In the Obama
administration, then Attorney General Eric Holder was a liberal activist instead of the nation's top law enforcement
officer. Holder infamously labeled America "a nation of cowards" for not having the courage to discuss race
relations. Thereafter, he spent his entire tenure obsessively focused on race. It was certainly a questionable
decision when his department decided not to prosecute members of the Black Panthers who were threatening voters and armed
with a weapon at a precinct in Philadelphia. He made sure that no investigations ever touched President Obama, since he
promised to be his "wing man."
Eric
Holder calls for an end to the electoral college: 'It's undemocratic'. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who
is considering a 2020 presidential bid, called Tuesday to abolish the electoral college, saying it's a "vestige of the past."
"It's undemocratic, forces candidates to ignore majority of the voters and campaign in a small number of states. The presidency
is our one national office and should be decided - directly - by the voters," Mr. Holder said on Twitter. The
potential Democratic presidential candidate issued the tweet while linking to an article from The Washington Post that notes nearly
a dozen traditionally blue states have passed legislation to circumvent the electoral college.
Eric
Holder goes on MAGA-rant that takes a dark turn: 'Exactly when did you think America was great?'. Former
Attorney General Eric Holder fired a shot at America's past as he questioned the thoughts behind President Trump's "Make
America Great Again" slogan[.] Holder declared that America's greatness "never, in fact, really existed" during an
interview on MSNBC's "The Beat With Ari Melber" on Wednesday [3/27/2019]. The Obama-era attorney general, who has decided
not to run as a Democratic presidential candidate for 2020 so he can focus on issues like partisan redistricting and criminal
justice reform, was expounding on those topics when host Ari Melber asked about America's past.
They don't
believe in America. Eric Holder was born in the Bronx at a great time to be a black American. Second-class
citizenship ended when he was 13. After graduating from Stuyvesant High School, he went on to Columbia University, followed
by Columbia Law School. By the time he graduated in 1976, he had interned at the NAACP and the U.S. Attorney's office.
Holder would become the first black attorney general, having been appointed by the first black president. And yet, Holder
tweeted sarcastically, "Exactly when do you think America was great?"
Eric
Holder wants Mueller report out, but argued against full transparency after Starr report. Former Attorney
General Eric Holder joined the chorus Democrats calling for the full release of special counsel Robert Mueller's final
report, but in the wake of the Starr report he made the opposite argument. Speaking with Ari Mebler on MSNBC last
Monday, Holder said, "You look at the letter and you're trying to figure how much of this is Barr, how much of this is
Mueller, how much of this is based on the Mueller findings? ... Congress and the public are going to have to get access to the
Mueller report." Yet back in 1999, when he was deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, Holder's position
was starkly different.
Obama
AG Eric Holder Says Stacey Abrams Won Georgia Gov. Election. Former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder said
he believes Stacey Abrams (D.) won the Georgia governor's race in 2018, where the final certified election results showed
Republican Brian Kemp winning with 55,000 more votes. "I tend to think Stacey Abrams won that election, you know?"
Holder said to The Root. In making that claim, Holder echoed other prominent Democrats in suggesting that Kemp's
role as secretary of state was a factor in the outcome. "I think the way it was conducted, the — her
opponent remaining as secretary of state, basically being the referee until about the last week of the election, certainly
gave the appearance of unfairness, and I think it was unfairness." Abrams has never conceded the race, and has also
maintained on several occasions that she won.
Forget
Trump, Here Are Five Reasons Why Obama Should Have Been Impeached. Midway through his second term, more than
half of the nation's inspectors general wrote a letter to Congress accusing the Obama administration of systemic obstruction
of ongoing investigations. That letter should have resulted in the appointment of a special counsel, but Attorney
General Eric Holder, who famously called himself Obama's wingman, wasn't going to let that happen. In fact, neither
Holder or Loretta Lynch, Obama's second attorney general, ever appointed a special counsel, despite ample times where one
should have been appointed. Obama didn't just appoint attorneys general to lead the Justice Department, he appointed
protectors to keep Obama from being held accountable for corruption.
Obama
crony Eric Holder should stop lecturing William Barr on legal ethics. I hereby nominate Eric Holder for the
inaugural Nobel Prize for Chutzpah. Obama's initial attorney general, the first black American to hold that office, has
a ton of nerve to lecture Attorney General William Barr about releasing the Mueller Report. "The attorney general of
the United States is the people's lawyer, not the president's lawyer," Holder said Thursday [4/25/2019] in Chicago's Rogers Park
district. "You have a responsibility to run the Justice Department in a way that is not political." This is not
the same Holder who served Obama.
Democrats
Accuse AG Barr of Doing Exactly What Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch Did for Obama. Neither [Eric] Holder nor
[Loretta] Lynch should have been confirmed as U.S. attorney general in the first place given their radical pasts. In
1970, Eric Holder was the leader of a black separatist group at Columbia University called the Student Afro-American Society
(SAAS). As part of the group, Holder participated in a five-day armed takeover of an abandoned ROTC office on the
Columbia University campus. He was also a hardcore left-wing partisan who disparaged conservatives and, as deputy
attorney general under Bill Clinton, played a major role in the pardoning of Weather Underground terrorists. Holder's
radical past set the tone for his tenure at the Justice Department, which was defined by politics, not blind justice.
One of the earliest scandals of the Obama presidency was Holder's decision not to prosecute New Black Panther Party members
over voter intimidation during the 2008 election. Holder was also behind the stonewalling of many
investigations, which prompted 47 (out of 73) inspectors general to write a letter to Congress informing them of
the systemic obstruction. Holder clearly saw his job as Obama's protector and refused to cooperate with congressional
investigations, resulting in his being held in contempt of Congress. Holder also funneled billions of dollars to
left-wing groups in a huge slush fund scheme. Holder's politicization of the Department of Justice is undeniable.
Why
are so many Democrats so reprehensible in exactly the same way? [Eric] Holder actually was in contempt of Congress for
authentic scandals involving deaths of Americans, such as Operation Fast and Furious. Barr is not. Unlike Holder, Barr is
the smartest lawyer in the room. He knows, as does any sentient legal scholar, that to give the House Judiciary Committee what they are
asking for — names of intelligence assets, legally protected grand jury testimony — would be breaking the law. The Democrats with
their handmaidens in the media are manufacturing a "constitutional crisis" simply to hound the president and prolong the collusion hoax as
long as possible.
Democratic
smears of Bill Barr would be more accurately applied to Obama's AGs. William Barr has been confirmed by the
U.S. Senate four times, has served two U.S. presidents, and has proven himself to be a consummate professional who deeply
respects the great responsibilities and boundaries of the office of the attorney general. Considering the turbulent
tenures of President Obama's two attorneys general, Democrats' partisan attacks on Barr's honesty and transparency should
fall on deaf ears. To refresh your memory, Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, became embroiled in a scandal
when guns illegally sold to Mexican drug cartels by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were found
at the scene of the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
William
Barr vs. Eric Holder: A Tale of Two Attorneys General. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has
declared it a "constitutional crisis" that Attorney General William Barr refuses to divulge the small parts of the Mueller
report that contain grand-jury material. By a straight party-line vote, the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold
Barr in contempt of Congress. What did Pelosi think when Barr's predecessor, Eric Holder, refused to divulge documents
to a congressional committee and was held in contempt? "Ridiculous!" she said. What did Holder and Obama
say? That the House subpoena was a violation of "separation of powers." To partisans, the difference between the
cases is obvious. Barr is defending Trump; Holder was Obama's self-proclaimed "wing man."
Hey
Joe Biden, Here Are Some Scandals You Forgot. [Scroll down] How many Americans knew, for instance, that
"Operation Fast and Furious" put around 2,000 weapons into the hands of narco-traffickers (and an Islamic terrorist), leading
to the murder of hundreds of Mexican citizens, and at least one American, a border agent named Brian Terry? Not
enough. There must have been at least a sniff of scandal, by the way, because even after a federal judge rejected
Obama's assertion of executive privilege in efforts to deny Congress files relating to the operation, the administration
wouldn't budge. Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, refused to cooperate in the investigation, becoming the first
sitting attorney general in American history to be held in contempt of Congress — a vote that included 17
Democrats. That's odd, because today asserting executive privilege is exactly like Watergate. And ignoring
courts? Well, Obama did that all the time.
Americans
for Limited Government Requests Docs Relating to DOJ Bribery Under Eric Holder. The Americans for Limited
Government requested documents Tuesday [7/23/2019] relating to an Obama-era corruption case at then-Attorney General Eric
Holder's Department of Justice. The Americans for Limited Government requested documents pursuant to the federal
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request relating to "alleged public corruption, abuse of power, misuse of power or the
otherwise compromised status" as well as "alleged acceptance of bribes" by Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) officials.
Holder
tells Dems to stop badmouthing Obama's legacy. In this week's Democratic presidential debate sweepstakes,
candidate after candidate predictably trashed the legacy of a contemporary U.S. president. No, astonishingly it wasn't
Donald John Trump. It was, wait for it, Barack Obama. This surprise dissing of Obama's legacy did not escape the
notice of his original Attorney General, the still-reprehensible Eric Holder.
Obama's
'Wingman' Eric Holder Says an Attorney General Has to 'Appear to Be Neutral'. In addition to obstruction
investigations, as attorney general, Eric Holder launched bogus investigations into administration corruption and obstructed
dozens more, including the investigation of his inexplicable dropping of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, the
Iran ransom scandal, and Benghazi. In August 2014, 47 of 73 inspectors general wrote an open letter to Congress
informing them that the Obama administration was obstructing their investigations. Holder also lied to Congress about
Fast and Furious and refused to provide documents to Congress for their investigation, prompting a historic contempt
vote. "I think when people look at the Justice Department and think that it's in some ways politicized, that has a
negative long-term impact on the department," Holder said. We can thank him and Barack Obama for that. They
politicized the Justice Department in an unprecedented fashion.
Reports:
Eric Holder Considers Jumping into 2020 Presidential Primary. Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is again
considering running for the Democrat nomination for president in 2020 after previously ruling out a run, a move that comes as
former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has filed presidential primary paperwork in Alabama signaling he may be a late
entrant to the race.
Obama
Better Hope Eric Holder Doesn't Jump into the 2020 Presidential Race. Rumors have been going around for a while
now, but MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson is now claiming that Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, is considering
joining the 2020 presidential race. "It gets even more interesting," Robinson said in a tweet Thursday evening.
"I hear from a good source that Eric Holder has been consulting strategists about possibly jumping into the Dem presidential
race." [...] According to reports, Barack Obama didn't want Joe Biden to run for president because of what that might do to
his presidential legacy. I can only imagine that Obama wouldn't be too thrilled about Holder jumping into the race,
considering Holder was his partner in crime, and Holder jumping into the race could bring all that stuff out.
Eric
Holder Says Bill Barr Is Too Political to Be Attorney General. This week, the only attorney general to be held
in contempt of Congress accused the sitting attorney general of being "unfit to lead the Justice Department." Yes, Eric
Holder said William Barr is too political to serve as attorney general. [...] Eric Holder should know. Few attorneys
general have been as shamelessly partisan in support of their president as he was. When Holder announced his retirement
from DOJ in 2014, Nick Gillespie, the libertarian editor-in-chief at Reason.com, bade him good riddance. "Holder's
tenure has been marked by a disturbing mix of duplicity, incompetence, and obliviousness," Gillespie wrote.
Obama
'Wingman' Holder Calls AG Barr 'Nakedly Partisan'. Obama picked Holder for the job in no small part because of
his proven willingness to do a president's dirty work and keep his mouth shut. Holder made his bones as deputy attorney
general in the waning days of the Clinton administration when he orchestrated the scandalous pardoning of fugitive
billionaire Marc Rich. At the time of his nomination to head the Justice Department eight years later, even the New
York Times had misgivings about Holder. Times reporters acknowledged that Holder was "deeply involved"
in the Rich affair. And although they daintily use words like "blemish" and "misstep" to describe Holder's corrupt
acts, the reporters document in detail his two years of maneuvering to sidestep outraged New York prosecutors and spring the
wildly undeserving Rich. Had Obama not played the race card adeptly, Holder would never have been confirmed as attorney
general. Once confirmed as AG, Holder himself played that card until he wore the spots off.
Barack
Obama Fundamentally Transformed the United States of America; Read this Amazing Thread. Five days before Barack
Obama won the presidency, he told supporters, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of
America." Unfortunately, he was telling the truth. It's become glaringly obvious that the Department of Justice
changed "fundamentally" during the Obama years. It didn't become so highly politicized by accident. The following
thread from The Epoch Times' Jeff Carlson shows how, by deliberately following the policies formulated by Obama and carried
out his attorney general, Eric Holder (and continued by his successor, Loretta Lynch), over an eight year period, the
transformation was accomplished. Due to the strict, highly political hiring practices enacted by Holder and then Lynch,
most, if not all, of the department's employees were Democrats by the time President Trump took office.
Eric Holder
tells journalist Paul Sperry to 'shut [...] up' about prosecutor in Andrew McCabe probe. Former Attorney
General Eric Holder lashed out at journalist and author Paul Sperry on Twitter Wednesday [2/19/2020], telling Sperry that he
should "shut [...] up" about federal prosecutor Molly Gaston's donations to former President Barack Obama. On Tuesday,
Sperry had tweeted that Gaston, an assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C., had signed off on a letter informing the
attorney for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that the government would not pursue charges against McCabe.
Sperry tweeted that Gaston "is [a] Democrat who's given thousands to Dems including Obama & who once worked for Dem side of
House Oversight & whose mother worked for WaPo [The Washington Post]."
Here's
How Eric Holder Helped the Obama Administration Transform the Democratic Party into a Party of Thugs. It was
during the Obama Administration that civility between the two parties truly became a vestige of the past. Obama's eight
years in office fundamentally changed the order of business in Washington. It was then that the Democratic Party
morphed into a party of thugs. And it didn't happen by accident. Their objective was to fill the government and
its agencies with as many liberals as they possibly could, politicizing them. They worked toward their goal
deliberately and methodically throughout Obama's presidency. It had all begun with an agreement between Obama and his
Attorney General Eric Holder. (And it continued under his successor, Loretta Lynch.) Federal law prohibited the
administration from basing hiring decisions on political affiliation, but Obama, Holder and Lynch easily found ways to get
around that.
Eric
Holder: Coronavirus is 'an opportunity' to permanently change US voting system. Former President Barack
Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged that he sees the coronavirus as "an opportunity" to change the way U.S.
citizens vote forever. "Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system so that it permanently
becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for the American people to access," Holder told Time magazine. Holder
went on to say that he supports shifting toward a system with more mail-in ballots.
Open Memorandum to Barack
Obama. [Scroll down] [I]t would seem your "wingman" Eric Holder is missing a step these days at Covington
& Burling LLP. Indelibly marked in his memory (and one might think, yours) should be his Motion to Dismiss the
multi-count jury verdict of guilty and the entire case against former United States Senator Ted Stevens. Within weeks
of Mr. Holder becoming Attorney General, he moved to dismiss the Stevens prosecution in the interest of justice for the
same reasons the Justice Department did against General Flynn — egregious misconduct by prosecutors who hid
exculpatory evidence and concocted purported crimes. As horrifying as the facts of the Stevens case were, they
pale in comparison to the targeted setup, framing, and prosecution of a newly elected President's National Security Advisor
and the shocking facts that surround it. This case was an assault on the heart of liberty — our cherished
system of self-government, the right of citizens to choose their President, and the hallowed peaceful transition of power.
No Holds Barred at the House Lynch
Session. [Scroll down] And Eric Holder? He's the one who publicly tells audiences to physically
kick their opponents. He's the mastermind at Justice who came up with the idea of passing along deadly firearms to
Mexican drug cartels so we can follow them. Fast and Furious. And then that inept Attorney General, Obama's
self-described "wing man," lost sight of the weapons until one was used to murder an American border security agent, Brian
Terry. Of more than 2,000 guns that Holder sent the drug cartels, only 710 were recovered. He ultimately backed
down on prosecuting the New Black Panther Party for its voter intimidation in Philadelphia. Two members of the Party
had stood outside a polling station during the election in paramilitary uniforms, one carrying a nightstick. This was
the same Holder who called us a "nation of cowards."
Former
Attorney General Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Pack the Supreme Court. Former Attorney General Eric Holder
urged Democrats to "use the power" of their new majority to pack the Supreme Court. In a virtual conference on judicial
reform hosted by the Brookings Institution on Monday [1/25/2021], Holder said Democrats need to act now that they have
control of the White House and Congress. "It is painfully clear, at least to me, that Democrats and progressives are,
and have been, uncomfortable with the acquisition and the use of power ... Republicans and conservatives never have been,"
Holder said.
Eric
Holder tells Dems to "use the power" of their majority to stack the court. Former Attorney General Eric Holder
urged Democrats to "use the power" of their U.S. Senate majority to pack the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary.
The Supreme Court is the only body that protects the civil rights of Americans. Stacking it would mean transforming it
into another leftist legislative body. "It is painfully clear Democrats and progressives are uncomfortable with the
acquisition and use of power, while Republicans and conservatives never have been," Holder said during a virtual conference
on judicial reform hosted by the Brookings Institution. "Our courts badly need reforms."
Is mob
justice now poetic justice? In 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before at Northwestern University
Law School to announce President Obama's "kill list" policy, under which he reserved the right to unilaterally order the
death of any American deemed an imminent threat. After all, Holder explained, "the Constitution guarantees due process,
not judicial process." The response was as chilling as the message: The audience of judges, lawyers and law students
applauded an attorney general who just told them that any of them could be killed tomorrow on the president's order.
Some of us denounced the "kill list" policy, which foreshadowed what has become a campaign against due process. In our
hair-triggered culture of Twitter attacks and "canceling" opponents, due process is treated as hopelessly arcane and
inconvenient. Our political discourse must now be tweet-worthy — less than 280 words — and
delivered in a news cycle measured in minutes.
Swiss
Billionaire Gave Millions to Eric Holder's Partisan Gerrymandering Group. A liberal Swiss billionaire known for
meddling in U.S. elections has funneled millions of dollars to former attorney general Eric Holder's effort to redraw
electoral maps in favor of Democrats, newly obtained documents reveal. The Berger Action Fund, the advocacy arm of
Swiss megadonor Hansjörg Wyss's Wyss Foundation, passed $3 million to the National Redistricting Action Fund (NRAF)
between 2018 and 2020. The NRAF is the 501(c)(4) lobbying arm of Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a
self-described "centralized hub for executing a comprehensive redistricting strategy" to give Democrats an edge in
congressional races. Holder, who chairs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, launched the group in 2017
with the goal of electing Democratic majorities in state legislatures in order to control the 2021-2022 redistricting process.
How
Did Ordinary American People Become Domestic Terrorists in The Eyes of The Deep State. Barack Obama and Eric
Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. Instead,
what Obama and Holder did was to take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one
side of the political continuum. [...] What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal
targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system.
This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline. Washington DC created the modern
national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived
a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security
apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
The DOJ is a swamp.
[Thread reader] Under Obama, the DOJ was fundamentally pushed to the left by Attorney General Eric Holder and then by his
successor, Loretta Lynch. Sally Yates rounded out the Obama appointed DOJ leadership. Holder came up w/process
for doling out settlements from the financial crisis to activist groups. Holder presided over unlawful investigation of
certain members of media. Under Holder's control, DOJ secretly obtained two months of telephone records of AP reporters
& editors. DOJ also monitored the personal email and phone of Fox News reporter James Rosen. And it was Holder
who refused to prosecute anyone in the IRS targeting of 426 conservative groups during the Obama Administration. The
FBI found Hillary Clinton guilty of essentially every act they investigated. Despite these findings, Comey cleared
Clinton by making a statement that "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case". This allowed Loretta Lynch at DOJ
to announce the matter closed.
Barack
Obama Hosting Martha's Vineyard Fundraiser for Eric Holder's Army of Election Workers. Former President
Barack Obama will host a fundraiser for his former Attorney General Eric Holder's redistricting committee on August 30th,
in a major step forward for Democrats in the midterms. The fundraiser for Holder's National Democratic Redistricting
Committee will feature a dinner and a discussion about democracy, supporting legal efforts to help Democrats in the 2022
midterm elections, according to Politico's Playbook. The event will take place at Martha's Vineyard.
Not
Just The FBI: Institutions Across The Board Have Forfeited America's Trust. In 2012,
then-Attorney General Eric Holder refused to provide information to Congress on the government's
ill-thought-out "Fast and Furious" program. He was held in contempt of Congress, and there
are indications that he may have committed perjury when he denied knowing about the program.
Lucky for him, he never received the Steve Bannon treatment.
If
'No One Is Above The Law,' Democrats And Their Partisan Pawns Would Be Arraigned, Not Trump.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder misled Congress during its investigation of the Obama-era "Fast and
Furious" gun-running scandal, which used taxpayer dollars to put guns into the hands of Mexican drug
lords. Holder was held in contempt, but that's pretty much the only punishment he received for
intentionally dodging subpoenas and hiding documents from congressional oversight.
The
Intel Agencies of Government Are Fully Weaponized. In the era shortly after 9/11, the
DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and
simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for
this purpose. What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the
internal targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the
new national security system. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into
this research outline. Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus
immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. When Barack Obama and Eric
Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to
create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against
their political opposition. [...] The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new
institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.
The
Culmination of Marxist Infiltration, Part 1. President Reagan appointed Holder as a
District of Columbia superior court associate judge. Clinton made him U.S. attorney for the
District of Columbia and then tapped him for deputy attorney general under Janet Reno. Holder
met Obama in 2004 and they immediately clicked. He had been a student radical at Columbia and
belonged to a militant group tied to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). He became a
fanatical devotee of the Black Panthers who embraced Marxism-Leninism and openly called for
Maoist-style guerilla warfare in the United States. Holder became part of the armed mob that
took over a vacant Naval ROTC office for a five-day occupation. They wanted the space because
of "the general racist nature of American society," and claimed Columbia was also racist.
With Obama, Holder returned to his radical roots. He clashed with Republican legislators in
the wake of Operation Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
investigation of gun trafficking on the U.S.-Mexico border from late 2009 to early 2011.
Border agent Brian Terry died as a result.
The Editor says...
The candidates are supposed to be selected by the rank-and-file voters, not an elite committee.
That's why they call the process "democratic."
Heroes
and Villains. [Scroll down] Just yesterday, former Attorney General
Eric Holder, speaking of Mr. Trump returning to office, told MSNBC's Jen Psaki: "They will
use the mechanisms of the DOJ to go after people who are their political foes. This is
something that has never really happened in the history of this republic." Mr. Holder may
have been born at night, but probably not the night before last. Apparently, he has not
noticed the uses to which current AG Merrick Garland has put "Joe Biden's" DOJ, bending heaven,
earth, and the law to put Mr. Trump behind bars and bankrupt him — not to mention
the scores of Trump-adjacent lawyers prosecuted in cockamamie cases based on their efforts to
pursue ballot fraud in the 2020 elections.
What
Part of Mandate Don't You Understand? You understand, of course, that the federal
bureaucracy is a perverse reincarnation of the old 19th century "Spoils System," an entrenched,
self-replicating matrix of parasites. Both parties have nourished it, but the Democrats have
made it their extra-special pet since Mr. Obama was in charge of things. He and his AG
Eric Holder arranged for the DOJ to target their political enemies and for the FBI to mutate into a
US-KGB, and that behavior persisted for eight long years since Obama and Holder left the
scene. The malice all flowed from those departments, since any opponent of the Party's agenda
could get lawfared, financially drained, and put out of business. The party's sole agenda,
really, was to just feed the bureaucratic parasite, and grow it ever-larger and more dependent on
the party in order to increase its power.