by Doug Book, staff writer
Attorney General Eric Holder will meet with Fast and Furious nemesis Congressman Darrell Issa at 5:00 this afternoon in what could mark the end of the Congressional investigation of Barack Obama’s deadly gun smuggling scheme.
Last week, House Republican leaders at last agreed to schedule a vote on the Contempt of Congress charge Issa has long sought to bring against the Attorney General for 8 months of refusing to honor Congressional subpoenas. Deputy Attorney General James Cole quickly responded with a letter to House Government Reform Committee chair Issa, requesting a meeting to discuss ways of avoiding the vote. Issa agreed to meet with the Attorney General, but only if the Justice Department were willing to “…submit a serious proposal for how it intends to alter its refusal to produce critical documents subpoenaed by the Committee…”
One day later, on June 14th, Holder answered with a two page letter outlining the “compromise” offered by the Department. According to the Attorney General, the “extraordinary accommodation” proposed by the DOJ in that letter represents “… a serious, good faith effort to bring this matter to an amicable resolution.”
But based upon the contents of Holder’s letter, the representations of “serious” and “good faith” are outright lies. First of all, Holder’s willingness to “compromise with the Committee” is an insult to the right and authority of Congress to subpoena withheld documents. He then admits the Department intends to provide documents that are “…outside the scope of the Committee’s interest in the inappropriate tactics used in Fast and Furious…” In other words, they will be items which the Committee has NOT subpoenaed and in which it undoubtedly has little or no interest!
Instead, Holder will offer an understanding of how the DOJ learned of those “inappropriate tactics” and what eventually prompted it to withdraw its infamous February 4th , 2011 letter to Congress claiming no gunwalking ever took place. And what this means is obvious—the Department will simply persist in its claim that “…until allegations about the inappropriate tactics used in Fast and Furious were made public, [DOJ] leadership was unaware of those tactics.” The Department didn’t know a thing until it was published in the New York Times!
It’s a scam…a sucker’s game. And Eric Holder is hoping Darrell Issa will step into the role of sucker. And what would prompt the far too savy Issa to do something so remarkably stupid? Only the fact that “Darrell Issa is under pressure from House Speaker John Boehner to DROP the Fast and Furious investigation because Boehner sees it as a distraction that could hurt Republicans at the polls.”
As FOX News reported on Monday, “…getting a contempt measure to the House floor could be a problem,” for “both Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor generally are not supportive of the vote against Holder.”
The sell-out in Speaker’s clothing and his weak-kneed leadership colleagues cannot muster the guts necessary to hold a black Attorney General responsible for his crimes. The public, their oath of office and the Fast and Furious dead be damned! This is an election this year. And voters with no intention of voting Republican anyway, might be offended.
So Issa might be pressured into TAKING this pathetic Justice Department offering, dropping the Contempt vote scheduled for Wednesday and announcing an “accommodation” with the sincere Mr. Holder at some point in the future–like after the election, for example.
For months, “Coach is Right” has warned readers about the supremely gutless, political hack in the Speaker’s chair and his desire to undermine the Fast and Furious investigation, even at the price of allowing Regime thugs to get away with murder. The next 48 hours will tell the tale.
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Further reading:
Lanny Breuer presents latest Fast and Furious cover story for Eric Holder and the Regime (20.8)
- · DOJ cover-up of Fast and Furious coming apart at the seams (19.2)
- · Darrell Issa’s Fast and Furious rebuke of Eric Holder is one for the ages (18.2)
- · Eric Holder had plenty of experience with cover-ups prior to his work on Fast and Furious (27.5)
- · Holder Files Murder Charges to Provide Cover for Obama Regime (13.3)
- · Will Attorney General Eric Holder’s perjury cost him his job? (10.8)
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- Holder’s Fast and Furious lies exposed by DOJ document leak
- John Boehner to halt Fast and Furious investigation, sell out to Eric Holder and White House
- IT’S OFFICIAL—John Boehner is stalling Fast and Furious contempt citation of Eric Holder
- Darrell Issa’s Fast and Furious rebuke of Eric Holder is one for the ages
- Darrell Issa to finally put Eric Holder behind bars?
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No surprise at all!
Congress is a TOTAL SHAM. Issa was given the "assignment" to PRETEND to do something so they could "close" the matter just as the matter of obama's birth certificate was supposed to be "closed" by posting that FAKE document online.
KICK OUT ALL of congress. THey're ALL OWNED by the Elite, either blackmailed for this or that or outright THREATENED for the lives of them or their families.
The "government" has been PURPOSEFULLY made Defunct so WHEN people see that, they'll BEG for a New World Order to "save" them (but for the mere cost of No More Rights)
Not all the criminals are in jail.
As an update to this rapidly changing story, Darrell Issa wrote Eric Holder on the 18th, making clear the DOJ MUST produce a listing of all subpoenaed documents in its possession which it will continue to withhold from the Committee! The link to this 6/18 Issa letter is below. Clearly it is virtually impossible that the DOJ could meet this demand by 5:00 today. And although this demand had been made some months ago, Issa must know the DOJ has done nothing to act on it in the interim. Interesting stuff. http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/201…
Doug
Doug…it was difficult to chase down the exact "compartment" to locate this actual reference…but I finally got it…..
Rep Issa makes it clear, repeatedly, throughout his letter (June 18), to Holder that he (Issa), will be in NO position to negotiate with him (Holder), unless and until all the documents requested are delivered to the committee.
No doubt Issa is adamant….too bad he does not get much support from 'Holder-Water-carrier'', Rep. Elisha Cummings…or from his own House Leadership…
So why is Issa even meeting with Holder today ??? You KNOW those documents will only see the light of day over both Holder's and Obama's deaths…what kind of point is Issa trying to make with Holder at the eleventh hour and 59th minute???
Screw the niceties, stuff a sock in Rep Cummings mouth, and proceed with the House vote of Contempt; make this charade 'over with' one way or another.
If Holder escapes punishment on this issue, it will be proof positive that the governmental system in this country is completely broken.
So, in other words…..assuming that House "Pubes" continue on down the lame-ass, "don't rock the boat" path they have taken since Obama's 2008 election….their party politics and good ole boy network will extend to covering up the facts of a felony…and playing "let's make a deal" with the most amoral, ruthless Attorney General this country has ever had the misfortune to endure !!
Well, that's just fine and dandy…..
The Republican Party has simply added another reason to stay home on election day in November !
I see no difference between between Holder's behavior and that of Congress…and I approve of neither.
I will not vote to support a Republican leadership which is every bit as corrupt as the man they were supposedly 'taking down' .
My vote means more to me than allowing the continued bastardization of the rule of law by a bunch of bums who repeatedly shoot themselves, and the American citizenry, in the foot.
Republican House leadership needs to get a grip on priorities before they ask me to ever support them.
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