Gunwalker: House Wants Special Counsel To Investigate Eric Holder
House Republicans are going to call for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is sending a letter to President Obama arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself and will request a probe by a special counsel.
The question is whether Holder committed perjury during a Judiciary Committee hearing in May. At the time, Holder indicated he was not familiar with with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program known as Fast and Furious.
Judiciary’s call for special counsel comes after documentation surfaced yesterday that indicated Holder was getting weekly briefs on Operation Fast and Furious, and that senior Justice Department executives were well aware that these operations were walking guns into Mexico.
So far, Holder’s PR defense is that he didn’t understand the following question: “When did you first hear about Operation Fast and Furious?”
President Barack Obama now finds himself in a complicated predicament at a time which already marks the low point of public opinion regarding his performance, and as his hopes of re-election fade. If Obama opposes the appointment of a special prosecutor for the perjury investigation (and by extension, Operation Fast and Furious and other alleged gunwalking operations), he immediately saddles his campaign with questions of obstructing a lawful and legitimate call for an independent investigation. Operation Fast and Furious will immediately become a key story for the 2012 campaign, though it has so far been largely ignored by the media.
Likewise, President Obama seems to be in danger if he does choose to appoint a special prosecutor. Evidence to date — including direct communications between the ATF special agent running Operation Fast and Furious and White House staffers — seems to indicate that the White House was well aware of these gunwalking operations. If evidence surfaces that directly implicates President Obama himself, then a failed reelection bid may be the least of his worries.
What’s the process for the president appointing a special prosecutor? Does he open his Rolodex and go to the “Owes me a favor” section? Are we screwed?
yes…screwed that is.
This will not lead to anything…just like the black panther affair.
Holder(like Obama)is a racsist and a liar. He is likely a criminal and a perjurer. Should a special prosecutor be appointed and Holder tried and convicted(big ifs), he’ll likely resign and be granted a pardon. Probability he faces real punishment(jail time, large fine)is about nil. White America has been neutered by the race card. One musn’t forget, Holder’s “people” were at the white mans’ whippin’ post not long ago. The “man’s” still payin’ for past wrongs. I’ll wager $10k this rat never does ANY jail time!
What if our brown brothers from south of the border request extradition?
” What if our brown brothers from south of the border request extradition?”
I will volunteer to drive the prison bus to deliver him.
And I would ride shotgun:)
“The possible charges and the list of those who could face them are extensive. In addition to the perjury case against Attorney General Holder, there exists the possibility of RICO cases (typically reserved for organized crime syndicates), prosecutions for violating the Arms Export Control Act, and the outside chance of prosecutions for international terrorism and treason.”
I wonder how long it will be before Obama throws Holder under the bus? Obama has a knack for doing this, even to Reverand Wright. I give it about a week after the formal prosecutor is named. This should have been done months ago. I wonder if Napolitano will go down, too.
We can only hope so. She’s another one of the idiots (with apologies to persons of lesser mental capabilities) foisted on us by the people of Arizona, who seem to be rational, sane people individually but when they vote they elect some of the strangest people.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Reading comments in Pajamas Media is morning medicine – to find constant agreement. Yes, he’d throw him under the bus to save his own skinny ass and Holder would know this. When we will get to the firing line, we may get some dramatic entertainment.
He may not be able to through Holder under the buss or Holder might take BO with him (I can only hope).
So, is this tragedy about to descend into farce? Because expecting Obama to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Attorney General is going to be, ah…colorful.
Interesting choice of words. Perhaps he will appoint someone of color who is actually competent. If so, he will do it by accident. Certainly he will chose based on skin color. This administration, while decrying uncivil discourse has engaged in just the sort of things they decry in others. I doubt seriously if he will choose someone based on their competency other than how to put forth something that looks like an investigation but goes nowhere at a high rate of speed. It would amaze me if he picked someone who will actually do the job properly regardless of skin color or gender. Maybe he should pick Hilary.
“So far, Holder’s PR defense is that he didn’t understand the following question: “When did you first hear about Operation Fast and Furious?””
If you can’t understand that question, you shouldn’t be in any government job.
DOJ, DHS, State and now Treasury involved? There’s too much interagency cooperation for it not to go all the way to the top. The very top. About the only one i could see not having knowledge of or planning/proposing this operation is Biden — mostly because they’d fear he’d, um, shoot his mouth off.
rbj – You know all those Ivy-leage types. For them, it all depends on the meaning of ‘first,’ on the meaning of ‘is’ and other deep questions about ‘hear[ing]‘ and about ‘truth.’ For the Ivy-leage types, the world is enveloped in shades of grey. It’s just us knuckle-dragging conservatives that take words to be what they mean.
BTW – All I can is, finally there is going to be some action. (And do you notice that CBS news on the internet has been doing some real digging. It must be doing penance for Rathergate.)
WTG Bob Owens, you doggedly persued this story when the entire MSM wanted it to go away. You and PJM deserve the Pulitzer Prize. The implicaitons of this are far and wide and far,far worse than Watergate, Iran-Conta, Teapot Dome or anything in the history of the United States. IMHO Eric Holder and the group that planned this are guilty of felony murder. The MSM is going to have to eat a nice fat crow for their abdication of any responsibility for a “free press”. The NYT might as well file Ch. 11 now.
And in addition to the above mentioned criminal charges, are they also guilty of money laundering? Has any of the taxpayer money they have been loaning to companies like Solyndra, ending up being donated back to Obama’s re-election campaign? There’s a reason those Solyndra executives all took the Fifth.
Thanks, but I’m only one of many covering this story. Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea got the ball rolling, and Attkission (CBS), LaJeunesse (FOX) and Serrano (LA TImes) have been working the story hard as well.
What is shameful is that part-time journalists and bloggers are having to do so much to keep the story alive. The bulk of the MSM is shamelessly protecting a criminal conspiracy, and I hope that the public comes to realize the way they are being manipulated by CNN, NPR, ABC, NBC, Washington Post, NY Times, and other complicit co-conspirators of this Administration.
Bob,
I have emailed the “Ombudsman” (Arthur S. Brisbane) at the NYT asking why they haven’t covered F&F along with a link to this story. As you may recall, after Andrew Breitbart and his young associates broke the ACORN tapes story the NYT Ombudsman stated that maybe they should pay a little more attention to the new media going forward. I encourage all PJM readers to email the NYT Ombudsman: public@NYTimes.com
Hey, JulianG3….
I think that the Pulitzer Committee is made up of “judges” from the Journalism School of Columbia Univ. in Noo Yawk.
This can lead to all sorts of angst and knickers twisting and scenarios of hypocrisy and …..and……and …….
……paging Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan,….get ready to “Strike Up The Band”, and ultimately maybe a rousing rendition of “There’s Gonna Be A Hot Time In The Olt Town Toni
….apologies…re: the typos at the end… I hit a very wrong key and the screen moved upwards….so I started a new message…
Charlie –
Trust me, I am under no delusions about ANYBODY getting the PP for this story. Of course the Pulitzer prize, like the Nobel, is given only to the favored members of the (MSM) “club”. Any doubts about that vanished when the National Enquirer did not get the PP for its excellent work on l’affaire John Edwards.
Hey, JulianG3….
Be careful about suggesting that Pulitzer Prize Committee, aren’t they made up of “judges” from the Columbia, Noo Yawk, School of Journalism. Others at Columbia Univ. have a penchant for interesting, provocative speakers.
This could lead to all sorts of delicious treats in Hypocrisy 101 and calls from the sidelines for a libretto by Gilbert and Sullivan.
….maybe cue in a long, deep brooding introduction by Wagner, with a buxom, spear carrying soprano wearing a horned helmet, spraying her throat just out of view in the wings……the possibilities here are mushrooming with toxicity.
I checked Wash. Post and NY Times online to see what their coverage was on this scandal and surprise!–no mention whatsoever. This story needs to go viral.
Nancy,
It’s on Drudge. I won’t be long now. The MSM won’t be able to keep a lid on this now. Or, to borrow a phrase from Watergate, “Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s very hard to get it back in”.
It’s hit MSNBC and a few lefty sites, and they’ve got their spin: Bush started it. They’re claiming Operation Wide Receiver was a Bush program that walked guns in the same way.
Wide Receiver does apparently go back to 2006-07. What were its objectives and tactics?
Also, what was its scope?
I would love to be a fly on the wall in the NYT Office of “Pinch” Sulzberger and Bill Keller. How to they figure out how to ignore “all the news that’s fit to print”. ? All they have done since 2007 is provide cover for Obama’s radical friends, ideology, activities etc. Everyone on this thread should email their Ombudsman and ask them if this story is now worth coverage. Remeber after Brietbart blew the lid off ACORN how they said they would follow the new media more closely for stories of this type? They are worse tghat Pravda, Izvestia and whatever the dictators put out in Cuba and North Korea.
JulianG3 – It’s not all the news fit to print; it’s all the fiction that fits our views, that’s what we print as news.
Petition our government:
http://wh.gov/4Gg
Holder speech on April 2, 2009 (according to DOJ site!)
Attorney General Eric Holder at the Mexico/United States Arms Trafficking Conference
CUERNAVACA, MEXICO ~ Thursday, April 2, 2009
Remarks as prepared for delivery.
First, let me express my thanks to Attorney General Medina Mora and Secretary of Government Gomez Mont for making this conference possible.
This is my first trip to another country as Attorney General. I wanted to come to Mexico to deliver a single message: We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you in this fight against the narcotics cartels. The United States shares responsibility for this problem and we will take responsibility by joining our Mexican counterparts in every step of this fight.
And, together, we will win – thanks in large part to the courage of my Mexican colleagues here today, who are on the front lines every day, and with whom I am proud to collaborate.
The topic that has been addressed over the past two days could not be more important – the development of an arms trafficking prosecution and enforcement strategy on both sides of the border.
I would like to thank the Mexican and U.S. experts who have worked so hard on this issue. On our side, Secretary Napolitano and I are committed to putting the resources in place to increase our attack on arms trafficking into Mexico.
Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels. My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner, DEA is adding 16 new positions on the border, as well as mobile enforcement teams, and the FBI is creating a new intelligence group focusing on kidnapping and extortion. DHS is making similar commitments, as Secretary Napolitano will detail.
But as today’s conference has emphasized, the problem of arms trafficking will not be stopped at the border alone. Rather, as our experts emphasized, this is a problem that must be met as part of a comprehensive attack against the cartels – an attack in depth, on both sides of the border, that focuses on the leadership and assets of the cartel. This is the type of full-bore, prosecution-driven approach that the U.S. Department of Justice took to dismantle La Cosa Nostra – once the most powerful organized crime group operating in the United States.
With partners like those we have here today, I am confident that together, we will defeat these narcotics cartels in exactly the same way. I am proud to stand with you, and to join you in this fight. Thank you again for inviting me here.
He’s gonna skate (if this is the best we can do) on the distinctions between Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious. F&F was a specific program inside of GR. Holder could very well only have gotten overall briefings on GR, without getting specific details on F&F.
Not to excuse his overall incompetence, but that’ll be the tack taken, barring any more specific evidence that the AG was briefed specifically on F&F.
They’re going to dance this dance as long as they possibly can. The only way it breaks is if some of the new claims that he was getting weekly briefings turns into “Yeah, I met with him and told him about this operation. It happened at this place and on this date.” If that happens, then he’s toast.
And we’ll see how far up the ladder this goes. The only reason I don’t dismiss the possibility that Obama’s involved is because of the claims he made a while ago about “behind the scenes work to enforce gun control”. That’s been twitching my antenna since this whole story broke. I really want to get eyeballs on the internal memos.
Follow the links, please. Holder was briefed with weekly reports that included Operation Fast and Furious by name.
Excellent work in following this story from the beginning. Equally, Sharyl Atkkisson deserves special credit for doggedly persisting against what was surely a lot of resistance even from her own CBS bosses. Her accounts that DOJ and WH persons are yelling and screaming at her are delightful and heartwarming, especially because it implies they are panic-frantic.
Bob,
Great Job.
You deserve a lot of credit and praise for your work , as well as an apology from me.
I have left countless snarky comments on your articles bitching about how this story would never go anywhere.
So, I here now apologize to you, for kicking sand in your face as you relentlessly dug into this story, while angry complainers like me shrieked about how useless your efforts would ultimately be.
My frustrations with this saga comes from my disgust for this corrupt administration,
and my seething contempt for the MSM that is (still) providing cover for them.
I hope my “flak” on the matter did not disrupt your aim while over the target.
Semper Fi
Let them drag it out. Perhaps, we’ll get lucky and the verdict won’t come in until after Jan. 20, 2013. Since it looks like lil barry isn’t going to be re elected, their should be no Presidential pardon. Or Holder gets extradited to Mexico and gets to spend time as a guest at one of their fine correctional institutions. That is a very, very entertaining thought. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m under the distinct impression Mexican jails aren’t as user friendly as federal penitentaries, ie Club Fed.
Couldn’t happen to a “nicer” bunch of people.
I’m surprised that the Mexican-American community is not more upset. It seems sort of racist when you look at it from the planner’s point of view of, “Sure a bunch people are going to get killed, but screw it, it is just going to be Mexicans”.
JC, what makes you so sure the Mexican-American community is anymore aware of what is going on than the rest of the people that only get the “news” from the MSM?
OK Enough’s enough. I’m reporting all you guys to Attavk Watch for being disrespectful of your betters.
Interesting. And the AG is the guy who called Americans cowards for the inability to talk about race, apparently in a meaningful way as defined by the AG. Hmm. I guess meaningful means there’s nothing to see with the new Black Panther Party or all those politically appointees signing off on gun smuggling to dope dealers. Refresh my memory, but are not the pardon powers of the president absolute? I maintain you’re going to see some interesting pardons coming down the road. The only question is will the pardons happen before the elections or afterwards, and will Gitmo finally be emptied?
Time for Mexico to ask Holder, et al, why he and his cronies are supporting the Mexican cartels in their war against the Mexican Government, a treasonous act. He better not vacation there, or he could become another Major Andre, the Brit hanged for treason against the U.S.
Actually, the greatest danger to Obama, Holder, et al is that the Mexican government would go to the United Nations Security Council to ask for UN sanctions against the U.S. generally, and prosecution in the World Court at the Hague against Obama & Co. specifically, for what the UN Charter defines as an “Act of War” against Mexico. Specifically, arming insurgents.
There’s also the small matter of facilitating the international narcotics trade, in contravention of the 1962 UN memorandum on that subject- which the United States both helped draft, and was a signatory to. Considering that under its provisions, diplomats who were involved in smuggling drugs from Turkey, etc., into the U.S. faced legal sanctions, it’s unlikely that Obama And Friends could escape the same treatment.
The only practical “way out”, in these scenarios, would be a U.S. veto in the Security Council. Which, if it happened, would write finis’ not only to Obama’s administration, but also to the political careers of most of the upper echelon of the U.S. State Department. To say nothing of the Department of Justice.
I’m quite sure that exactly nobody in the Obama White House saw anything like this coming. Their mental parallel universe does not include the concept of “consequences”, no matter what they do.
The real world is not as kind.
clear ether
eon
I’ve seen you post over at HotAir. You are very sharp and I appreciate your comments.
I’m pretty sure they can pin this on Scooter Libby, no problem.
Ah–but the drama and fear that many don’t seem to see. There are so many powerful people in the administration that are implicated in this. What could happen to them if Obama gets unelected? Maybe time in prison for a long while.
The only things that could save them are: (1) trials right now where the prosecution would throw the game in which case double jeopardy would keep them from being prosecuted in the future, or (2) depend upon the Teh Won to give you a pardon before he ceases being President.
#1 isn’t likely–it would cause too much negative publicity for Teh Won in pre-election time, and once the malefactors could claim the protection of double jeopardy by being acquitted they could spill the beans.
#2 is the ticket. Be loyal and good and you will be exempted from prosecution by a Presidential pardon. But even so–could they depend upon this? Obama himself might fear what will befall himself post-election should he be giving out blanket pardons. That might cast even more suspicion on him, and he cannot give himself a pardon. And how many of his underlings really thing he would sacrifice himself for them?
Its all a very interesting puzzle in game theory.
Teh One, as you call him, can’t issue pardons in cases of impeachment – that’s how Ford got away with pardoning Nixon, who resigned before he was actually impeached. So if they want to make this stick instead of sliding off like every other thing that has come close to The Teflon One, they better move to impeach Holder, Nappie, Turbo Timmy, etc., with lightning speed.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought only elected officials could be impeached. Those you mention were appointed.
Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/
On this story since December 2010. I like Bob. But they did the heavy lifting. They were in early and in all the way. Credit where it is due folks.
How sure is #15 that the President cannot pardon himself?
Way I see it, Obama stonewalls. No way he appoints a prosecutor, unless maybe it’s Lanny Davis.
Oh, this is too easy. Obama just has to appoint a friendly “investigator,” preferably from Chicago; order him to stall until after the election; and order him to find that nothing that was done to be illegal. Then, Obama just gives himself, and everyone involved, the same pardon of the un-indicted that Nixon received, so that it can’t come back to get him later.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002331—-000-.html
As far as I can tell, Eric Holder might be guilty of sponsoring international terrorism. Given what the Mexican drug cartels are doing to Mexican society, supporting them by giving them guns is downright treason, a high crime or misdemeanor.
Woulden’t it be nice if the prison inside Maxwell Airforce Base still had the cell that John Mitchell occupied after his Watergate conviction?
I’m certain it would be a perfect fit for Eric Holder.
yeah, any FnF investigation will have the same result as the Black panther voter intimidation case: nothing to see here folks, pardon us while we dump this down the memory hole
Can we start throwing bricks thru Government’s windows now?
Holder will be the fall guy, he will fall on the sword to protect Obama, and that will be good enough for the lame street media when they get dragged kicking and screaming to cover the Fast and Furious scandal. The Obama lap dog media will want to drop this as fast as the can so they can fall all over him for the 2012 election campaign. The feet need to be held to the fire on this, Holder is just the tip of the iceberg, under that tip is Obama with his hands dripping with blood of the dead.
This leads right to the top. A special prosecutor will not be appointed. Obama will throw Holder under the bus to save his azz. Obama’s partner, Michael, wouldn’t have it any other way.
I’m waiting for one reporter to ask Obama: (a) sitting here today, do you find “Fast & Furious” to be an acceptable governmental operation?; (b) if not, have you asked Holder to justify / explain why it was undertaken? and (c) if so, what did Holder say?
I’m not holding my breath while waiting.
All the King’s media men are rushing to cover this AT’s ass, but it won’t work. Thank you, PJM, for exposing Holder’s plot to cripple the 2′nd amendment by supplying WEAPONS to Mexican narco-terrorists, in the hope that they would slaughter enough innocent lives to convince the spoon-fed American populace that Guns Are Intrinsically Bad and that no one should ever be allowed to carry them except for government-union employees.
I read somewhere that there was a white paper floating around among the Dems,that suggested doing away with the AFT entirely. It would be the most massive under the bus throw in history. However even if Holder and the agency went away there is no guarantee that the alternative press and the House would let things slide. There is just too much incriminating paper work and Emails. A cabinet and czar purge is about the only thing that could reduce or stave off a special prosecutor fiasco.
Traditionally a special prosecutor is appointed from the opposition party, if Obama tries for a “buddy” for prosecutor he will just prolong the controversy and make himself look worse.
These days the alternative media is a double edged sword, you can get an attack out real quick but the response is also quick and nothing is ever forgotten. The NY Times is over a billion dollars in the hole and the big three networks have only 55% of the viewers they had in 2000.
So my “opinion” for what it is worth, is that Obama will do what he usually does when faced with a hard choice. He will dither, play some golf, throw some tokens under the buss, play the race card, and then face renewed calls for a special prosecutor. The ones that will yell loudest for a “special” will be from the Democrat side who want to see him gone, gone, gone, before the Democrat primaries. You’ll know the party is over if some Democrat Senators from Red States with iffy prospects join the call for the special.
on a lighter note, some good news.
mcdonalds and the government are said to have something big in common these days.
they both have a head guy that is a clown.
h a n d
Sharyl Attkisson and CBS have the opportunity to make Woodward and Bernstein look like a couple of kindergarten kids, will they take it?
The other big loser – the Washington Post – who fancies itself with bringing down a corrupt President (Nixon). They’ll be full on hypocrits after this since they are only interested in proping UP a corrupt President.
Yes we get it WaPo, you aren’t interested in bringing down corruption, just Republicans.
Glaring.
Drip, drip, drip. A lot of folks do not remember how slowly Watergate dripped out until the flood destroyed the Nixon Administration. So is this story building slowly. Y’all please don’t be like the kids in the back seat on a road trip demanding to know when we’re gonna be there! It’s months until the political season really gets started.
By late spring, early summer of 2012 this story will have grown so much even the Wapo and NYT will have to take note. Until then, Congressman Issa will be keeping the fire burning under the pot. The only way Obama can save himself is if he were to fire Holder, Napolitano, Clinton and everyone else even close to this mess. And he’d have to do that soon, like before the end of the month. Obama won’t do that, he isn’t that smart and has no one who is willing to give him the bad news.
Nope, this is just going to drip, drip, drip until the Obama Presidency is flooded. At least Nixon had the Republicans in the Seate to finally go to him and tell him that he had lost. Obama has Harry Reid.
Yeah, he may just “rebuild the cabinet” after the re-election, to get a “fresh start” to face the “new challenges” of the economy…nothing to see here, move along, and the compliant media will “sit doogie” once the perps are gone…
If he DOESN’T get re-elected, the story dies entirely because the Loss of “The One “ is more than enough “punishment” for them (the MSM) to have to endure.
Either way, dont expect any “justice”.
As we learned from the B.J.Clinton presidency “perjury” is a non punishable offense. Liars and damn liars are all we have in government. And there isn’t thing one that can be done about it.
As soon as Obumbles is implicated, the investigation will stop. Even though he is the Prince of Incompetence, it would be impolite to point out just how incompetent he really is. Precisely like the Blagojevich investigation.
If Obama had nurtured his white half, instead of his black half, he would have been impeached by now. But since he has become clarified black, he gets a pass on every faux pas even if it is a felony. He is the ultimate weapon for the Democrat/Progressive/Socialist Party.
Are we a great country, or what?
Make sure all this stuff gets translated into Spanish and gets circulated all over Mexico. Make sure that the Mexican government and people know that the people of the USA are disgusted at what our government has done to Mexico. Encourage Mexico to take it to the UN and The Hague. Only then can we begin to restore our national honour.
House Republicans are going to call for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned.
I saw a Congresscritter on “the news” yesterday (I didn’t catch his name) who supported the appointment of a special counsel but wouldn’t go so far as to acknowledge the blindingly clear cut truth that Eric Holder perjured himself in his May testimony.
With wimps like that leading the Congressional charge and a president who is highly recalcitrant to bring the heat onto one of his surviving confidantes (the seemingly not-right-in-the-head AG) this has all the makings of yet another Washington DC circus.
Deception extraordinaire! Under current law, the “special prosecutor” would be appointed by none other that Holder himself, if one were to be appointed at all as it is Holder’s decision to make. One must wonder what the House R’s are thinking. If Holder was to appoint a “special prosecutor” to investigate himself (Holder), it would be a like minded Marxist intentioned to exonerate Holder from any and all responsibility while fleecing the taxpayers of yet more millions in legal fees. Can there be any wonder why the people are constantly reminded of why they are completely fed up with our Government?
Before Holder twice PERJURY, He Knew Well Of Gunrunner (one of many related forerunners to Fast & Furious) Illegal Arms To Mexico Prior To April 2, 2009.
http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2009/04/040209-speech-doj-ag-holder-arms-trafficking-conference.html
As this is an official DOJ press release, Mr Owens, I would think you could reference it now. This also went to Grassley and Issa this morning.
Surprise, surprise, the White House has (reportedly) turned a thumbs down on the idea of appointing a Special Counsel to look into the baldfaced lies of Eric Holder.
Radical Racists: Obama, Holder, and the NBPP
It’s turning out that the president of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States, and the New Black Panther Party have much more in common than race. Call it recompense, call it reparations, that commonality is almost as ugly and damnable as any crimes committed by the Ku Klux Klan.
Barack Hussein Obama has undertaken prodigious efforts to appear the president of all the people regardless of race and an even greater effort to conceal his radical, racist past. Eric Himpton Holder has been more forthcoming in his racism and active discrimination toward white Americans without conceding his bigotry. The New Black Panther Party, founded on black racism and distinguished from the old Black Panthers only by the fact most have not yet been tried and convicted, is more brazenly ingenuous about its radical racism.
No matter Obama’s attempts to hide who and what he is, no matter Holder’s accidental admissions, if nothing else, Obama and Holder could learn a great deal about forthrightness from the NBPP. Their learning curve aside, recent and past revelations have now linked all of them.
After his election, Obama told America he has been running for the presidency since kindergarten. Toward that end, he campaigned in Selma, Alabama in March, 2007. Nothing wrong with that; he campaigned in 57 of America’s 58 states so Alabama most likely was one of them.
What is very wrong is that photos depicting him marching and speaking with NBPP National Chief Malik Zulu Shabazz and other members of the New Black Panther Party were quashed and hidden from the American public for four years by Obama’s mainstream media.
That oversight could readily be attributable to journalistic negligence–or to a covert attempt to portray their hero, their anointed one, as Everyman, a universal man who represented all of America, black, white, yellow and everyone in between, who didn’t have a racist bone in his body. . .
Not unsurprisingly, like those damning 2007 photos, that evidence of “reverse racism” has been suppressed by Obama’s media.
Obama’s appointment of fellow African-American Eric Holder as attorney general should have provided the clue that neither Obama nor his new appointee were on the same page as the majority of Americans.
Eric Holder’s background of facilitating Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive Marc Rich, defending the terrorist Ejército Popular Boricua, negotiating a settlement in the case of Chiquita Brands paying off terrorists, his firm’s representation of Guantanomo accused terrorists, etc., were a dead giveaway that Holder was closer to being a terrorist himself than qualified to be the attorney general of the United States.
Obama’s MSM deftly hid those pretty damned relevant details on Holder’s résumé. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5645.)
The Senate played its part in not wanting to shoot down the new half-black President’s appointee, led by ideologically bent morons like Patrick Leahy.
Bending over in the name of political correctness, they accepted the BS in the Holder hearings, and there was no stringent review of Holder’s background, bias and brain-deadness.
Echoing a complaint of Holder himself about Americans in general, you could say that the Senators responsible for conducting a careful review of Eric Holder were cowards.
Berlet98.
Everything you say goes double for me. Nice writing.