CONTEMPT: Issa Moves Against Holder on Fast and Furious
Issa’s report notes the October 2010 slaying of Mario Gonzalez Rodriguez, the brother of the attorney general for the Mexican state of Chihuahua. “In a subsequent shootout with cartel members responsible for the murder, police arrested eight and recovered sixteen weapons. Two of these weapons traced back to Operation Fast and Furious. Although the Department of Justice learned that these weapons traced back to Fast and Furious almost immediately, no one informed the Mexican government.”
The memo also outlines the “most damning assessment” of intentional wrongdoing by Justice Department officials. “Kenneth Melson, the former Acting AFT Director during the pendency of Fast and Furious, told Congress that, ‘it appears thoroughly to us that the department is really trying to figure out a way to push the information away from their political appointees at the department.’ Patrick Cunningham, who had been tasked by the Justice Department with investigating ATF whistleblower allegations of gunwalking, would later invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions about his work.”
It notes that the number of documents the Justice Department has handed over “pales in comparison” to those made available to the committee in previous investigations, including 31,000 documents pored over in the Patrick Tillman investigation and “access to highly sensitive materials despite the fact that the Justice Department was conducting a parallel criminal investigation” in the Valerie Plame probe.
As of Tuesday, the DoJ had made available more than 7,300 pages of documents. “This small number reflects the Department’s lack of cooperation since the Committee sent its first letter to the Department about Fast and Furious on March 16, 2011,” the memo states.
And if Holder is held in contempt of Congress, so what? He’ll just ignore it the way he ignores the Constitution.
That’s why Boehner needs to quit being a timid coward and rally a call for more house members to demand Holder’s resignation.
I don’t know what happened to this man. We really had high hopes..
.Holder will not be taken down. This man might resign and say he is too much of a distraction..and slide away like van jones, and others have for a while.. Obama’s people have a safety net..the corruption of the administration, and obama..
Without knowing anything about legal procedure, I can safely say you’re right. There must be a dozen ways for Holder to evade the consequences of a contempt charge. Appeals, dribbling bits of documents and calling it “cooperation,” relying on ten-day grace periods (I’m sure something like that exists), more appeals, and hell, just hiding things and moving them around.
I’ll have faith when federal marshals are breaking locks and hauling stuff away in trucks.
“Issa is a racist” in 3….2….1
Holder -like many democrats- is a BLATANT RACIST.
Holder is negotiating – with Obama. Holder takes the fall to protect the prez – gets a full pardon – loses his law license – and goes on the liberal talk circuit and makes millions.
Only in America does crime pay.
Ain’t this a grand country?
Not only is Holder stonewalling Congress, his own internal investigation appears to be going nowhere. The investigation into the Cartagena sex scandal happened in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, Holder hasn’t even been able to say who authorized Fast and Furious!
Holder should be tried for treason, and Obama and all the rest should be named as co-defendants. Everyone found guilty in this fiasco should be hung on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at high noon on the 4th of July.
If the President is found guilty of treason, who signs the pardon?
The next Prez will sign, remember President Ford pardoning Nixon? It’s an Old Boys Club, they’ll never go against one another.
“For over a year, the Department has issued false denials, given answers intended to misdirect investigators, sought to intimidate witnesses, unlawfully withheld subpoenaed documents, and waited to be confronted with indisputable evidence before acknowledging uncomfortable facts.”
Well, it’s about time Congress did something about this. I hope they nail Eric Holder to the wall over this. I’m stunned when I think what they did to Scooter Libby over the Valerie Plame investigation, and nobody even came close to dying in that. Here we have a dead border patrol agent and God knows how many dead Mexicans, and no charges have even been brought up against anybody, let alone Holder. It’s about time Congress took this action. The big question now is, will Obama throw Holder under the bus for this if a special presecutor is named? You bet he will. If Obama threw people like Bill Ayers and the “Reverand” Wright under the bus, Holder is sure to go there soon, too, especially with Obama up for re-election. The wheels on the bus go thump, thump, thump, and the sound you’re hearing is Eric Holder about to be crushed by this investigation. It’s about time.
“The big question now is, will Obama throw Holder under the bus for this…”
That man would throw his own wife and kids under the bus, if needed.
F&F was a clear case of planting manufactured “evidence” to push an agenda.
The goal was to put guns traceable to “white redneck-America” into INTERNATIONAL crime scenes, so that the offended country could harp and complain, and we would have to “respond” to this injury by cracking down somewhere…And gee, where might that be?.
I’m also absolutely certain high-ranking Mexican officials was in on it as well.
Its really no different than the Tawana Brawley case, dreamed up and executed by the exact same type of people, and sold to the same compliant media, only on a larger scale this time.
The M.O. is the same…leave physical evidence that has all the hallmarks of whats “expected” by the reactionary left, and let “nature” (the compliant media) take its course.
Was was Tawanna Brawley smeared with feces when they found her?
Yes.
Did they find her with racial slurs written on body?
Yes
Did she profess the ultimate, that it was (horrors!) “white men in uniforms” who were her abductors and assailents?
Yes.
Was all of this a hoax, purposely planted to “fit” a narrative the Main Actors involved always claim “everyone knows to be true”, running sinisterly just under the surface, but without sufficient actual undeniable PROOF until NOW?
And thus, extreem measures must now be taken to thwart this long denied, but FINALLY proven oh-so-true crime of the long guilty culture?
Yes.
But of course, the facts dont actually fit the narrative, which is WHY the hoax must be created….
White gang-rape of Black women/girls is simply, nearly non-existant in this country. It truthfully, simply, does NOT occur in any meaningful numbers.
In truth, the exact OPPOSITE is in fact much more common. That is, that Black gang rape of White women/girls is utterly commonplace in most available crime statistics, should anyone care to look.
By the same token, Drug Cartels do NOT pay retail for Semi Autos. They do NOT then smuggle them onsie-twosie across the boarder. Only Leftest Bullshit Artists and Gun Control truth deniers push that theory, because it simply doesnt happen. It doesnt even pass the smell test in terms of plausability.
American Gun Shops, American gun owners, and the 2nd Amendment of our American Constitutions Bill of Rights have nothing to do with Mexican crime rates.
But it DOES fit the nafarious false narrative of the Main Actors involved, AGAIN.
And they DID fabricate the scenario, to push their agenda, AGAIN
Same people, same trick, same media now looking sideways and whistling when the Truth comes out.
Al Sharpton has never paid for his racist hate-crime, because their narrative is that all white people are racists, and need to be punished anyway, regardless of the particulars in his case
Just as their narrative is that guns, particularly “assault weapons”, are so bad they need to be banned anyway, even if F&F was an intentional hoax…
Just like Tawanna Brawley
And don’t forget the hoax perpetrated against the white La Crosse players at Duke, that version of events immediately embraced by the MSM and much of the Duke faculty, by academia in general across this not so fair land.
Given legs by the DA Mike Nifong, for purposes of self-serving notoriety in his own re-election bid. Nifong was forced to resign when the dancer’s story completely collapsed.
The collusion and orchestration in all these kinds of incidents boggles the human mind.
All of these leftist worms must be aliens from outer space.
The Duke case kinda fell into Nifongs lap, I think….
The whack-job dancer did make accusations….he just went with what he knew “it had to be” based on his own pathetic biases and need for self aggrandizement as a now, or potential, but definitely wannabe “national” media figure….
Same mental illness that afflicts that Florida Prosecutor, and makes HER lust for the limelight so strongly her press conference was like a coming-out party.
Skeavey-creepy how breathlessly “poised” that cow was, making her big debut.
Neither of them were the original perpetrators of “the hoax”, like that despicable scumbag Sharpton was. They just jumped on the golden opportunity to enhance their careers as the runaway train of another media fixed narrative happened to be passing by their little jerk-water station.
Its going to run the track regardless, so why pass it up….
Its THE only chance in their pathetic lives when the Beautiful Famous People will ask them for an interview, or a return call “just so we can talk”.
Katie, Brian, The View Girls, OPRAH?
ooooh its just too much to let JUSTICE or my OATH get in the way.
Meanwhile Holder is hot on the trail of athletes taking H.G.H or steroids.
Blago needs a roomie ….
it’s too late.. issa made sure of that… very disappointed in him.. we were warned about issa..
Too late for what?
Issa’s done a bang up job, speaks clearly and candidly when interviewed, under extreme circumstances of DOJ stonewalling.
Reportedly, the contempt citation will come before Memorial day and, yes, it is about time.
Why do you assume this about Issa? If you’re going after the Attorney General, you’d damn well better build an ironclad case that proves that, over time, Holder has stonewalled. Issa could have brought contempt charges a year ago, but a year ago he would have been far less likely to get the votes needed to pass the contempt citation. I am not impatient with Issa. In fact, I applaud his patience in setting up his ducks and not acting until he could make it stick.
Exactly right.
As dreamy as it may seem that Holder does the perp-walk, he is still the AG and his boss is still the top cop. The fox which was guarding the hen house may have feathers in his mouth, but the control of evidence is still in the guts of the service. This is also to mention that a number of the congressional foxes have big bellies and feathers to hide.
Nixon got a pardon and Clinton got a pass because our guardians in congress relating to impeachment did not want to traumatize the public with a scandal. “Cover-up” is the protocol and “transparency” was always the smoke screen. High voltage media driven politics makes cynicism seem like a virtue. One only needs to repeat Nixon’s “No man is above the law” speech to measure the glory of the beltway and the fall of the American experiment.
i think holder will do a perp walk and i think obama is going down as president for a second term. president romney might just surprise us.
timing…..timing……timing….
I don’t know which made me smile more, reading Issa is holding Holder in contempt, or Senator Grassley’s hipster-looking internet-lingo tweet about it.
You mean the people that have done precisely nothing about illegal recess appointments will do something about Eric Holder? Really? I’ll believe it when I see it. The GOP could have defunded every last bit of ObamaCare within a month of its passage and they actively avoided doing so.
It is time to replace all GOP leadership or face the fact the GOP works to be so weak as to avoid being a serious impediment to the Socialist freight train. By being “tomato cans” they get the almost nicest offices and the almost best perks and have to do little more than routinely say “they understand the base is angry and next time they will fight like Tasmanian devils” before they collapse like a French Army in the next conflict.
How many times does the GOP have to fail, and fail in the same way, before you start to understand either the fix is in, or they really are just too darn weak to make any progress? “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”
I don’t think the problem is weakness in the GOP leadership. Rather, I think their ideology isn’t that far off from the typical Democrat’s. The arguments I’ve seen put forth from GOP congresspeople has centered around the speed at which that “socialist freight train” operates. Originally, when the Obamacare legislation came out, the GOP congresspeople were mostly talking about their own “reform” plan that seemed to me to be just as hideous as Obama’s. I think the GOP needs a complete ideology makeover.