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Reaction to House vote holding Attorney General Holder in contempt

 

(CNN) -- A collection of reaction from various groups and individuals to the House of Representatives vote Thursday holding Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious gun-running sting:

 

Attorney General Eric Holder:

 

"Today's vote is the regrettable culmination of what became a misguided -- and politically motivated -- investigation during an election year. By advancing it over the past year and a half, Congressman (Darrell) Issa and others have focused on politics over public safety. Instead of trying to correct the problems that led to a series of flawed law enforcement operations, and instead of helping us find ways to better protect the brave law enforcement officers, like Agent Brian Terry, who keep us safe -- they have led us to this unnecessary and unwarranted outcome."

 

The White House:

 

"At the beginning of this year, Republicans announced one of their top priorities was to investigate the administration and to ensure that President Obama was a one-term president. Despite the major economic challenges facing the country, they talked openly about devoting taxpayer-funded, Congressional oversight resources to political purposes ... In an act of good faith, this week the administration made an additional offer which would have resulted in the committee getting unprecedented access to documents dispelling any notion of an intent to mislead. But unfortunately, a politically-motivated agenda prevailed and instead of engaging with the president in efforts to create jobs and grow the economy, today we saw the House of Representatives perform a transparently political stunt."

 

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I know this is page 4 of this Holder topic but doncha really feel like we truly live in a surreal parallel universe?

I mean I heard DemoRat pundits - white and black - going on this morning about the utter disgrace of this attack on Holder. Its just because of race and we (Repubs etc) are setting back the civil rights movement by a 100 years. All because he is "African American" or "black" and Issa is purely playing politics yada yada yada.

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I know this is page 4 of this Holder topic but doncha really feel like we truly live in a surreal parallel universe?

I mean I heard DemoRat pundits - white and black - going on this morning about the utter disgrace of this attack on Holder. Its just because of race and we (Repubs etc) are setting back the civil rights movement by a 100 years. All because he is "African American" or "black" and Issa is purely playing politics yada yada yada.

@righteousmomma!

 

Let's go back a hundred years.....to 1912. I'm sure the "klan" was big in the South....heck, it was big here in Denver. My grandparents & their parents were living in Iowa [paternal] and had just settled in Montana [maternal] and neither sets of ancestors owned slaves. My parents never owned slaves.....none of my siblings owned slaves. My wife's family as far back as she can remember.....never owned slaves. Remind me why they want me to experience "white man's guilt" to excuse their own lawless, disingenuous, discourteous behavior? The leading "light" of racial politics, Martin Luther King, insisted on judging a man by the content of his character, instead of the color of his skin. This isn't the year of Negro reparations. The fact that they could scam Pigford, excuse the NBPP & crucify Zimmerman for killing "St. Skittles" does not pertain to me, my life or the life of my friends & the citizens of this great country. I won't take a knee for them. They can get their head screwed on straight.....and I'll treat them like a man....or not.....but their skin color will have nothing to do with my own judgement & actions. Grow the hell up. Don't expect justice for 100 to 150 year old crimes, slights & treatment. Their distant ancestors may have been slaves, pulled from Africa to this continent, by Arab & Portuguese slavers....but they suffer in the relative comfort of America....where even the poor have TV's, iPhones, air-conditioning & education is readily available. They are light years ahead of their ancestors that weren't snatched from Africa. Their race card is worthless....and I think people should start ignoring & shaming their loutish behavior. That's my opinion....take the hand in friendship or get ready to see it in your face.

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I know this is page 4 of this Holder topic but doncha really feel like we truly live in a surreal parallel universe?

I mean I heard DemoRat pundits - white and black - going on this morning about the utter disgrace of this attack on Holder. Its just because of race and we (Repubs etc) are setting back the civil rights movement by a 100 years. All because he is "African American" or "black" and Issa is purely playing politics yada yada yada.

 

Guess they don't care that brown people were killed. Not that I'm accusing them of racism or anything.

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I know this is page 4 of this Holder topic but doncha really feel like we truly live in a surreal parallel universe?

I mean I heard DemoRat pundits - white and black - going on this morning about the utter disgrace of this attack on Holder. Its just because of race and we (Repubs etc) are setting back the civil rights movement by a 100 years. All because he is "African American" or "black" and Issa is purely playing politics yada yada yada.

 

Guess they don't care that brown people were killed. Not that I'm accusing them of racism or anything.

 

'Hey, people die'. Juan Williams.

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I know this is page 4 of this Holder topic but doncha really feel like we truly live in a surreal parallel universe?

I mean I heard DemoRat pundits - white and black - going on this morning about the utter disgrace of this attack on Holder. Its just because of race and we (Repubs etc) are setting back the civil rights movement by a 100 years. All because he is "African American" or "black" and Issa is purely playing politics yada yada yada.

 

Guess they don't care that brown people were killed. Not that I'm accusing them of racism or anything.

 

'Hey, people die'. Juan Williams.

 

Picture Brit Hume saying that. When do you think we'd hear the end of it?

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WOW Never saw this one coming!

 

Justice Department won't prosecute Attorney General Holder for contempt of Congress

LARRY MARGASAK and PETE YOST

June 29, 2012

 

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation from Congress does not constitute a crime and he won't be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.

 

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In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, the department said that it will not bring the congressional contempt citation against Holder to a federal grand jury and that it will take no other action to prosecute the attorney general. Dated Thursday, the letter was released Friday.

 

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Deputy Attorney General James Cole said the decision is in line with long-standing Justice Department practice across administrations of both political parties.

 

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Now we know the purpose of the 2nd vote

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Love you all here -Casino, Sr.. Woodchuck, ,Save (and of corse Peppe) and most especially NCT.r

 

Could not endure all the idiocy w/ o you.

Thank you for keeping me sane.

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Fast and Furious Noose Tightens Around Justice Department

Andrew C. McCarthy

June 29, 2012

 

Explosive reports are now surfacing that Justice Department officials clearly knew about the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” tactic, in which the federal government — actually, a task force comprised of Justice Department agencies and led by ATF, a Justice Department agency — allowed upwards of 1400 illegally purchased firearms to be routed to violent Mexican drug gangs. This recklessness led, quite foreseeably, to the murder of at least one federal agent, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and probably a second, Homeland Security Agent Jaime Zapata. There are reportedly also scores of victims in Mexico.

 

The reports, including this one from Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times, explain that this gunwalking information was contained in applications the Justice Department made to the court for wiretapping authorization beginning no later than March 2010 (i.e., over eight months before Agent Terry was killed). Readers of Ordered Liberty will not be surprised to hear this. As I explained in a post last week:

 

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In any event, Chairman Issa’s disclosures, as reported by Mr. Dinan, appear to put the lie to much of what Holder and his minions have been claiming. That includes the bit about “summaries”; quite apart from the extreme unlikelihood that wiretap application summaries were top officials’ only source for Fast and Furious information, it appears that even the summaries describe the gunwalking tactic:

 

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Dingle wants to send this back to the Oversight Committee to have a "Real" investigation...what ever that is.

Is that Dingle of the Berry clan?

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Saturday Movie Matinee: Democrats vs Republicans on Contempt Vote

 

June, 30, 2012 — nicedeb

 

 

Today’s theme is Democrats vs Republicans on the vote to hold Holder in Contempt of Congress.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t home for the full House Contempt vote, last Thursday, so I had to miss most of the floor speeches. I did turn on my CSPAN iphone ap when I had a chance to listen in when I could, and remember being aghast when I heard Democrat voices like Hank Johnson’s coming through…

I don’t know what to tell you other than, this guy don’t know sh*t from shinola, but he’s a pretty good representation of the caliber of argument coming from the House Democrats.

Georgia’s own Hank (Guam could Capsize!) Johnson, put on his legal scholar hat to explain to the ignorant masses that we just have to trust that there is a good reason for Holder (?!) to invoke executive privilege.

He also explained how the Republicans leaders at the beginning of Obama’s presidency were;

“scheming to disrupt, and uh….say no… and obstruct everything the President put forth…. They have done everything they can to make the President look bad. This is a manufactured crisis, it has no legal substance whatsoever, this is just simply a cheap stunt to bring disfavor on the President of the United States. And I ask my colleagues to not let us sink to this level……this is truly saddening.”

 

I’m sorry, the average Joe could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and crap out a smarter statement than that.

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http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/saturday-movie-matinee-democrats-vs-a-republicans-on-fast-and-furious/

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July 4, 2012

Journalists Who Broke Fast and Furious Story File Ethics Complaint with DC Bar

 

M Catharine Evans

 

 

 

When The Attorney General of the United States decided to stall, stonewall and retract previous positions regarding his knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious he should have known Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars and David Codrea of examiner.com, the two men responsible for breaking the gun walking story, would never, never give up.

After 18 months of what Vanderboegh calls "the fight of his life," Holder has not only been held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over legally subpoenaed documents, the story has broken through to he court of public opinion.

It's been a tough battle to smoke Holder out into the light of day and now that he's there selfless patriots like Codrea and Vanderboegh will not let his blood-soaked Department of Justice get away with murder.

 

Yesterday the investigative journalists filed an ethics complaint against Holder with the DC Bar Association. Readers please take note of the address and file your own complaint.

We are all in this together. Through Vanderboegh's and Codrea's breathtaking tenacity and Scissors-32x32.png Read More

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/07/journalists_who_broke_fast_and_furious_story_file_ethics_complaint_with_dc_bar.html

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The pressure on Holder and the DOJ continues to build. Below is latest letter from Grassley to Holder.

 

http://www.grassley.senate.gov/about/upload/2012-07-03-CEG-to-DOJ-FF-Memo.pdf

 

 

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Attorney General

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20530

 

Dear Attorney General Holder:

The investigation into Operation Fast and Furious has focused on two specific areas:

(1) When did individuals within the Department of Justice (DOJ/Department) become

aware of the tactics and (2) How did DOJ provide false information to Congress regarding

the allegations of gunwalking.

 

I believe the Department should have been abundantly aware of allegations of

gunwalking as there was more than one ATF agent providing information to Department

components before the February 4, 2011, letter was sent to Congress.

 

Specifically, on February 2, 2011, my investigators contacted an ATF Special Agent

who worked out of the Phoenix Field Division, Group VII office, and was familiar with

Operation Fast and Furious. The conversation centered on the ATF Agent’s recollection of

how Fast and Furious was executed and his recollection confirmed the allegations my office

had heard from other ATF whistleblowers. What was unknown until late 2011 was that this

ATF Agent produced a memorandum on February 3, 2011, which documented his

discussion about Fast and Furious. The subject of the memorandum is, “Contact with

Congressional Investigators,” and I have enclosed it within this letter.

 

This Fast and Furious memorandum traveled rapidly through ATF’s chain of

command. The memorandum was emailed on February 3, 2011, from the Dallas Field

Division to Phoenix SAC William Newell and Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations

William McMahon. Records that the Justice Department has withheld from Congress,

which were only made available for review in camera, show an email chain attaching this

memorandum was sent to Assistant Director of Field Operations Mark Chait at ATF

headquarters by the afternoon of February 3, 2011.

 

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July 4, 2012

Journalists Who Broke Fast and Furious Story File Ethics Complaint with DC Bar

 

M Catharine Evans

 

 

 

When The Attorney General of the United States decided to stall, stonewall and retract previous positions regarding his knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious he should have known Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars and David Codrea of examiner.com, the two men responsible for breaking the gun walking story, would never, never give up.

After 18 months of what Vanderboegh calls "the fight of his life," Holder has not only been held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over legally subpoenaed documents, the story has broken through to he court of public opinion.

It's been a tough battle to smoke Holder out into the light of day and now that he's there selfless patriots like Codrea and Vanderboegh will not let his blood-soaked Department of Justice get away with murder.

 

Yesterday the investigative journalists filed an ethics complaint against Holder with the DC Bar Association. Readers please take note of the address and file your own complaint.

We are all in this together. Through Vanderboegh's and Codrea's breathtaking tenacity and Scissors-32x32.png Read More

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/07/journalists_who_broke_fast_and_furious_story_file_ethics_complaint_with_dc_bar.html

 

 

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Senate Investigator Behind 'Fast and Furious' a Self-Proclaimed 'Truth Junkie'

This is part of a series of BLT profiles of Capitol Hill counselors and the work they do.

 

 

Months before the Operation Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation erupted into a partisan scandal, before the House found Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress for not producing documents, there was Jason Foster and his fondness for facts.

 

Foster, the chief investigative counsel for Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has always liked those bits of hard, specific details that cut down spin and defy obfuscation.

 

That is why the self-proclaimed "truth junkie," who spent his childhood afternoons in rural Arkansas watching C-SPAN, has grown to love the emails of government workers, including some emails he found that are now playing a key role in uncovering the Department of Justice’s role in the botched, high-profile gun operation.

 

Foster, 40, says he has read hundreds of thousands of emails in the past 16 years as an oversight investigator on Capitol Hill, and many times, they've been the key to untangling huge government agencies. They give a person’s exact words, down to the minute.

 

"It's a real-time record of bureaucracy," Foster said.

 

Most recently, Foster and his team of four other investigators spent 18 months digging into whistleblower allegations about how U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents allowed guns to go to Mexico, one of which was later connected to the shooting death of an American border patrol agent Brian Terry.

 

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Republicans: Wrong Priorities

In his recent appearance on Current TV, Alan Grayson discussed the Republicans' "Fast and Furious" investigation, healthcare policy, and Republican vs. Democratic priorities

 

JOHN FUGELSANG: It's great to have you sir. I have to ask, what is your reaction to President Obama invoking Executive Privilege? Was that a smart move on his part?

 

ALAN GRAYSON: Well, I'm not a big fan of Executive Privilege, but remember in this case, what's happening really is a Republican witch hunt. This is the Obama Administration version of Whitewater. The Republicans are going to spend millions and millions of dollars so that they can come up with nothing. Absolutely nothing. I'm surprised they haven't called in Ken Starr to help them yet.

 

It's a very simple situation here. The Obama Administration is trying to protect undercover agents in the field in a sting operation. They know that if they give the identities of those agents and other information like that over to the Republicans in the House, it will be in the newspapers in 24 hours. It will be putting people's lives in danger; federal agents lives in danger. Therefore, they're not turning over some selective information.

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Ah Alan we really miss your brilliant penetrating insights

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DOJ releases indictment charging 5 with Brian Terry’s death

Posted by The Right Scoop on July 9th, 2012 in Politics | 1 Comment

 

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This really took almost 2 years for them to charge these people with Brian Terry’s death? Almost 2 years??? While I absolutely want these people to meet justice, this also smells like a campaign move to take some of the heat off Holder and Fast and Furious:

– For the first time, federal officials revealed Monday that murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and an elite squad of federal agents first fired bean bags — not bullets — at a heavily armed drug cartel crew in the mountains south of Tucson in December 2011.

The announcement came as the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging five individuals allegedly involved in Terry’s death. A sixth suspect has also
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DOJ releases indictment charging 5 with Brian Terry’s death

Posted by The Right Scoop on July 9th, 2012 in Politics | 1 Comment

 

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This really took almost 2 years for them to charge these people with Brian Terry’s death? Almost 2 years??? While I absolutely want these people to meet justice, this also smells like a campaign move to take some of the heat off Holder and Fast and Furious:

– For the first time, federal officials revealed Monday that murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and an elite squad of federal agents first fired bean bags — not bullets — at a heavily armed drug cartel crew in the mountains south of Tucson in December 2011.

The announcement came as the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging five individuals allegedly involved in Terry’s death. A sixth suspect has also
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Fast and Furious Is Not a D.C. Law Firm

 

Posted by Ann Coulter Bio ↓ on Jul 12th, 2012

 

Most Americans don’t care about whether Attorney General Eric Holder is hiding Fast and Furious documents because they don’t understand the story.

Until someone can tell us otherwise, there is only one explanation for why President Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave thousands of guns to Mexican drug dealers: It put guns in their hands to strengthen liberals’

argument for gun control.

Precisely because this is such a jaw-dropping accusation — criminality at the highest level of government to score a political point — Republicans refuse to make it.

But the problem with Republican rectitude in discussing this scandal is that as soon as they start talking about subpoenas and dates and documents, TV channels change across America. They’re never going to get answers unless they first explain to the American people why it matters.

Liberals have been dying to reinstate the so-called “assault weapons” ban, but they haven’t been able to for political reasons. (For more information on this, see the 1994 congressional elections.)

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http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ann-coulter/fast-and-furious-is-not-a-d-c-law-firm/

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Three Hundred Dead Mexicans, Will Mexico’s New President Ask For The Extradition Of Holder

 

By: Skook

 

 

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The United States has lost two federal agents who were killed by weapons supplied by Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder; who has intentionally allowed over 2,000 military grade weapons to fall into the control of theMexican drug cartels, but Mexico has lost over three hundred citizens and they are still counting. Mexico’s former president was an ardent Obama supporter and was unlikely to demand an explanation or file an arrest warrant for Eric Holder as an accessory to mass murder. Obama was just too much of an ally for illegal immigration and he liked to bow in submission or else he has an amateurish approach to protocol.

 

Enrique Pena Nieto is the new president of Mexico; whether he plays nice with the Mexican Drug Cartels for a share of the profits is yet to be seen, but he has no alliances with Obama and Obama’s days may be numbered. If Nieto wants to become an instant hero on both sides of the border, he should indict Holder and ask for his extradition to Mexico.

 

It is doubtful whether Obama would give him up, but he may see an easy way to clean up a messy situation. The Fast and Furious debacle has become an irritating issue before the election and after Holder has lied and Obama has incriminated himself by claiming Executive Privilege, getting rid of Holder may seem to be an expedient method to clean up a major embarrassment.

 

The extradition and trial of Holder will discourage Obama and future administrations from supplying modern sophisticated weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. It will also relieve the burden and embarrassment for the US of prosecuting Holder for the murder of agents Zapata and Terry. Scissors-32x32.png Read More

 

http://floppingaces.net/2012/07/03/three-hundred-dead-mexicans-will-mexicos-new-president-ask-for-the-extradition-of-holder/

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BORTAC Incident Report Indicates Brian Terry's Killers Let Go

Katie Pavlich

7/17/12

 

One week ago, the Department of Justice unsealed the indictments against five men for the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed on December 15, 2010. Guns from Operation Fast and Furious were left at the scene. Four of the men indicted are on the run and believed to be in Mexico. Those men are Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, Ivan Soto-Barraza, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes and Lionel Portillo-Meza. Manuel Osario Arellanes was shot on the night Terry was killed and has remained in custody since. His brother, Rito Osorio-Arellanes is also in custody and has been charged not for Terry's murder, but for other related crimes.

 

BORTAC shooting incident report 11 TCANGL 121570000077, obtained by Townhall, indicates authorities had four suspects in custody at the time of Terry's murder and let them go. Multiple updates in the report show "four men in custody," one of the men in custody being wounded, with another at large but "spotted." Five men in total. It has been confirmed multiple times that there were five bandits in Peck Canyon, Ariz. the night Terry was killed.

 

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So the question is...if they had these guy in custody, why did they let them go?

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DOJ Withheld ‘Fast and Furious’ Whistleblower Memo – Conservative Caucus Offers $100,000 For Evidence of White House Involvement

 

July, 18, 2012 — nicedeb

 

The Washington Guardian has obtained memos that show that the Obama administration was assigning whistleblower status to the agents who were exposing gunwalking to Mexican drug cartels, even as they were publicly denying said gunwalking. The Guardian reports that the documents outlining this are among those sought by congressional investigators, who have been met with a claim of executive privilege.

The Justice Department has withheld from Congress memos showing that senior officials inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began preparing as early as February 2011 to treat the agents who unmasked the bungled Fast and Furious gun operation as whistleblowers.

The memos, obtained by the Washington Guardian, were

 

 

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http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/doj-withheld-fast-and-furious-whistleblower-memo/

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