June 18, 2012 - 4:02 pm
Rep. Darrell Issa is scheduled to meet with embattled Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday after Holder requested a private meeting to postphone a contempt of Congress vote for his role in the “Fast and Furious” gun running scandal.
The OC Register’s Brian Calle caught up with Rep. Issa about the latest developments with Fast and Furious and his investigation into the Department of Justice.
Watch the interview below:
I’m just going to lay this on the line, and it should be obvious, because regarding street crime it has been proven before, esp. in the 80s–if the people start to get the expectation that malefactors and those who “stray” from the law will get every benefit and will have more people crying out for their interests than for the public’s; that even when incontrovertibly guilty that they will not pay for their transgressions; if the people start to believe that justice being done in a case is the exception, not the rule; then while they might not change the standards of due process, for valid reasons, they *do* tend to get very cranky when it comes time for considering pleas of leniency as a standard operating procedure, because they have come to think that only keeping officialdom’s feet to the fire results in any balance at all.
It is not enough, in those cases where the accused is actually guilty, for a final verdict on an affair to be rendered. It has to be also be a process where at the end of the day the people are in charge, not the guilty. Just sayin’.
Basically, for any politico reading this: make no mistake–just like the crime issue of the 80s/90s, don’t be suprised if on a whole lot of things you guys think can be handled as “politics as normal” that the attitude of a critical mass of the people is actually as hard as a brick wall.
Issa? Isn’t that arsonist in jail yet?
Patriot493 – If there is something that Rep. Issa that is wrong or with which you disagree, state it. Otherwise, snide comments that make no sense are not appreciated on PJM.
No, it’s a legitimate snark from somebody who made their own assessment of Issa. You don’t have to agree with it. Google “Issa arson”.
I can’t see what all the fuss is all about, I mean it was just one or two white guys and a bunch of Mexicans getting killed. It isn’t like it was one of “Holder’s people” or anything important. /sarc