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| UPDATE: Holder contempt vote: Approved | |
| 2012-06-20 | |
| Update 3:30 CST The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has approved a resolution holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. The measure now goes to the full House. Attorney General Eric Holder did not produce any of the documents he and Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa agreed on. The Department of Justice agreed to hand over 1300 pages in order to postpone tomorrow's contempt vote. Chairman Issa demanded them by Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning came and went. Mr. Holder turned up to the 20 minute meeting empty handed as well. Instead Mr. Holder briefed Chairman Issa and others on the documents. Chairman Issa released this statement after the meeting: I had hoped that after this evening's meeting I would be able to tell you that the Department had delivered documents that would justify the postponement of tomorrow's vote on contempt. The Department told the Committee on Thursday that it had documents it could produce that would answer our questions. Today, the Attorney General informed us that the Department would not be producing those documents. The only offer they made involved us ending our investigation. | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #16 I thought State had to have sign off on operations in foreign countries such as F & F. My understanding is that they did not do this. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-06-20 17:27 |
| #15 Points back to potential US State involvement. I wonder how long the Hildebeast can remain overseas and out of the spotlight? As early as October of 2009 the CIA and the DEA had sent complaints about the Fast and Furious operation through their respective chains of command, eventually making their way directly to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House. Klik |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-20 16:56 |
| #14 I watched/listen all day -- man, those Dem came loaded! Every other word, from each one of the was "previous administration"..... Even wanted to call up everyone way back to get "The Whole Story. We are voting on only part of the story. Must call up before this body, everybody, etc, etc, etc...." Best line I heard? "Sounds like Bush is running for re-election." Dems had to be told over and over and over, the contempt vote is about Holder not submitting the documents that he was subpoenaed to do." They still don't understand the word subpoenaed....... |
| Posted by: Sherry 2012-06-20 16:55 |
| #13 Interesting comments from 15 May by Larry Pratt at Gun Owners of America. Of course this is well prior to Obama's "Executive Privilege" announcement. Klik |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-20 16:43 |
| #12 Boehner has scheduled a full house vote next week on Holder's contempt citation coming out of the House Oversight and Reform Committee chaired by Issa. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-06-20 16:34 |
| #11 if he wasn't in on it, why wouldn't he throw Holder under the bus? Because he needs Holder to win the elections: every place where Romney won by a small margin will be investigated for due to complains of electoral irregularities---and guess what will be found? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-06-20 14:04 |
| #10 Obama has invoked executive privilege over the documents. Now, if he wasn't in on it, why wouldn't he throw Holder under the bus? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-06-20 11:40 |
| #9 Holder's not the only on talking out both sides of his mouth at the same time. Our Commander In Cahoots just chimed in. |
| Posted by: Junkiron 2012-06-20 11:30 |
| #8 Even with no dirt, the premise of Obama is that he is infallable. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-06-20 10:58 |
| #7 Ah. switched on Fox to see what the Committee vote count was, and find out Executive Priviledge has been evoked on the Documents Issa requested. Wonder what dirt Holder had on Obama to get him to do that? |
| Posted by: Charles 2012-06-20 10:13 |
| #6 John Boehner might not though Frank. Whether the whiffle-ball of a Speaker goes through with bringing it to the House floor is a toss-up at best. |
| Posted by: Charles 2012-06-20 09:42 |
| #5 I already hold Eric Holder in ontempt |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-06-20 08:24 |
| #4 That's quite disturbing, junkiron. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-06-20 07:42 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: junkiron 2012-06-20 07:36 |
| #2 Holder's failed performance yesterday should harden the resolve of the Ovesight Committee. The ATF whistleblower was on the teevee last night discussing the internal cover up. None of this will end well. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-20 04:35 |
| #1 Breitbart showed that the left are totally thrown by their own tactics. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-06-20 04:03 |