Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, is easily the most political Attorney General ever to occupy the office. After reviewing his record, one wonders why Republicans aren’t preparing to impeach him, instead of merely preparing to hold him in contempt of Congress for ignoring Congressional subpoenas related to the Fast and Furious gun running fiasco.
Holder’s transgressions of the public trust have been many, but here is a list that would have already brought howls for his scalp from the liberal press had he been a Republican.
Protecting Voter Fraud: On May 31, 2012, the Department of Justice sent a letter to the Florida Department of State, questioning the efforts of the state of Florida to protect the integrity of the election process by purging ineligible voters in what was merely the latest chapter in his crusade to protect outdated practices that encourage vote fraud. Holder has attacked practically any state effort to ensure the integrity of the ballot, including going after new voter ID laws passed in Texas and other states.
Protecting Illegal Immigration: Holder is suing or has threatened to sue any state that has made an attempt to crackdown on illegal immigration, while at the same time, he has been front and center in President Obama’s blatantly unconstitutional attempt to grant certain illegal immigrants amnesty by executive fiat. Arizona, Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, Texas and Utah have all been hit with threats or lawsuits from Holder over their recent attempts to get out from under the ruinous burden of illegal immigration.
Protecting Voter Intimidation: As former Justice Department attorney and whistleblower J. Christian Adams pointed out, Holder’s politically motivated actions as Attorney General started at the very beginning of his tenure. On the day that President Obama was elected in 2008, armed New Black Panthers stationed themselves outside a polling place in Philadelphia, shouting racial slurs and attempting to block legal access to the polls. Even though the Black Panther defendants in the voter intimidation lawsuit never responded to the complaint the DOJ filed after Election Day 2008, the new Obama political appointees -- led by Eric Holder -- ordered the case dismissed in May, 2009. What’s more, according to Adams, Holder was not truthful to the public or to Congress about the dismissal of the Black Panther case. He stated under oath in congressional testimony that career civil servants recommended dismissal of the matter, when in fact the highest political appointees, including the Attorney General himself, were involved in the dismissal.
Operation Fast and Furious: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating the Justice Department since 2010, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BAFTE) agent Brian Terry was killed ten miles north of the Mexican-American border by men carrying guns linked to Operation Fast and Furious. As part of Operation Fast and Furious, thousands of guns were allowed to cross or “walk” across the Mexican border as part of a large operation that was either badly mismanaged -- or worse. Holder has steadfastly refused to produce documents subpoenaed by Congress as part of its investigation, and has given answers under oath that were at best inconsistent and at worst outright lies.
A Pattern of Deception: From the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, to Operation Fast and Furious, to the lawsuits and threats against the states over illegal immigration and voter fraud -- Holder has consistently made claims or offered testimony that was demonstrably false. Far from making the Department of Justice a model of integrity and the last resort of those seeking to live in a society governed by the rule of law, as J. Christian Adams noted, “The havoc Holder has created goes far beyond corruption on any single issue. The damage he has done crosses all components of the Department of Justice, and has trickled down to infect the systems of law and legal jurisprudence throughout the country. He has tried to transform the federal agency intended to be above politics into an institution advocating radical change…”
Given Holder’s many failures at the Department of Justice, one wonders why Obama keeps him around. Holder’s DOJ has been singularly unsuccessful in defending a host of Obama policies, from the broadly panned health care law oral arguments before the Supreme Court, to the failures in the prosecutions of former Senator John Edwards and baseball great Roger Clemons, to the failure of the Obama administration to bring anyone on Wall Street to justice for the meltdown of 2008, to his failed attacks on American’s Second Amendment rights... Holder’s Department has a poor record on the big issues it has handled.
However, instead of cutting Holder loose, it should come as no surprise that Eric Holder’s Boss, President Obama, has now declared that the Fast and Furious documents Holder has long withheld from Congress are covered by executive privilege. Obama will protect Eric Holder at any cost because Holder is not Attorney General to protect the Constitution; he is Attorney General to protect Obama.
As is all too often the case, the timidity of Capitol Hill Republicans is holding back what should be done -- and protecting an Attorney General who has become not the Nation’s top law enforcement officer, but one of its premier examples of contempt for the law.
Not Politics as usual
Barak Obama and Eric Holder have a lot in common, not only with each other but with Stalin and the Third Reich. The questions and the problems arising from this administration are not the politics, of let's say the Roosevelt generation, this administration doesn't debate Constitutional issues, they debate the Constitution itself. What most people haven't realized yet, is that we are in the throws of a political coup. The methods Obama is using aren't new, Communists have been using the worker vs the corporation (the rich) since the Russian Revolution- throw in the Brown Shirt tactics of the Third Reich and viola! You have the Obama administration's playbook. Of course not many young people today know about the methods and tactics of Stalin or the Third Reich, they haven't even been taught the Constitution. They do however know the Obama tactics but they don't recognize them for what they are except for the hope and change they were indoctrinated in by their unionized teachers. If kids today were to see the movie "Reds" staring Warren Beatty, they would mistake it for Obamaism and a similarity of in-fighting between the Democraps and Republicans, (the Whites being the Republicans of course). I've been waiting for someone in the right wing media to call this "gang" in the White House for what they are, traitors! Rush Limbaugh came as close as anyone has come in identifying these thugs. On one of his shows he said, "it seems like a coup" in describing the tactics of Obama. But it is what it is, a long simmering bunch of Communists, not just Socialists, though they'd settle for Socialism to segway into full blown Communism eventually. We are being governed by traitors! There, it wasn't that hard for me to say it because its true. Impeach Obama and Holder, hell, put them where they belong, in an orange jumpsuit in a federal prison. Forget Political Correctness, go ahead and tell that ethnic joke, people can take it. Get over yourself, gather your grandkids and tell them about the old days before Lyndon Johnson started paying protection money in the form of welfare to keep the cities from being burned to the ground and started this not so Great Society of give me welfare not work. I dread four more years of Obama. If he gets re-elected, say goodbye to America as we knew it.
Eric Holder
Great article! I emailed it to somelikeminded friends. What I want to know is: Why are Boehner and Cantor and McConnell so mealy-mouthed and scared sh!tless about going after this unlawful, dishonest, racist AG? At the worst possible time in recent history, we are stuck with "MILKTOASTS" for representatives! We need them to stand up fore us and our beliefs because WE VOTED them into office to represent us! What a frustrating nightmare! When are these leaders up for re-election? We need to call and FAX the GOP leaders daily and tell them THEY TOO will be booted out of office if they don't grow some cojones real quick, and bring IMPEACHMENT against Holder, and even Obama himself! We the people are fed-up with the squemish GOP! The Tea Party freshmen are taking their lead, and losing their resolve, when hushed up by the RINOS. We need to vote in MORE Tea Party candidates every chance we get! Please give donations, even small ones, to Tea Party candidates that are running for offic all over the country. We saw how well it worked for Scott Walker in Wisconcin! The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121. Call everyday and leave messages for any members of Congress. IT WORKS!
Holder
Mr. Holder shouild not be impeached or held in contempt of Congress. He should be tried on charges of treason. Any person that swears an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States and then does everything in his power to destroy the Constitution needs to be held liable for treason. Supporting the New Black Panther organization that advocates the violent overthrough of the United States, preventing the apprehention and deportation of illegal aliens, interfering with the lawful pursuits of local and state governments are all examples of treasonous actions intending to cause grave harm to the Constituiton and These United States of America.
Eric Holder
From his first day in office Mr. Holder has made it imperically clear that he is the official "Brown Shirt" for the Obama administration. There is an old tale of a particularly nasty criminal down in bayou whose body was found at the bottom of the local bayou. He had been shot several times, his throat cut ear to ear, he was wrapped in heavy chains and his feet were solidly encased in a large block of concrete. The county sheriff declared: "Worse case of suicide I have ever seen.".
Obama knew that in order to be able to do as his "I am King" mentality directed him, he needed to own the sheriff. He picked Mr. Holder because he knew that Mr. Holder would be a loyal lap dog.
But lets extrapolate a bit. Suppose Mr. Holder is actually convicted of Contempt of Congress.
Under the law, the max he could get is less than what a DUI would get him here in Lovely Las Vegas.
And when his slimy hide is (almost) nailed to the wall, he looks to his master to protect him.
Now I am not real bright, but would someone explain to me how it is that the Whitehouse has denied any awareness of the Fast and Furious Operation from the very first moment that the op became public, and now can claim Executive Privilege?
My limited understanding is "Executive Privilege" is intended to protect the Executive Branch from prying eyes. So either the White House is now and has from the beginning been involved in this fiasco and has been lying through their collective teeth or the DOJ is far more corrupt and out of control than We The People ever suspected.
Darwin Rockantansky
Las Vegas, Nevada
Holder
As guardians at the door, it is your JOB... the one you ran for, spent money for, put the public light on you for... to uphold the laws of the land for ALL!! All includes the black pinocchio and his henchmen... because you have ALL failed at your job, these miscreants now truley believe you are weak and ineffectual... as do we the public. You knew you would not always be liked, that you HAD A JOB TO DO!!! In our eyes you have all failed miserably... especially since you public said and promised you would do the job... look to Boehner as a good example of promises made to WE THE PEOPLE and broken!!! When Boehner failed and became a sheep, we looked to you to defend our country and rights. Your next jobs SHOULD BE to cancel all the edicts the tyrant has imposed on WE THE PEOPLE. Congressional angst, Congressional lack of cohesiveness, Congressional lack of attention to the outright theft of our tax dollars and the acts of an immoral white house had upset you??? WHAT DO YOU THINK IT HAS DONE TO WE THE PEOPLE????? We are making YOU respponsible for a full accounting of money laundering, murder, theft of guns commited by Holder and, in your spare time, go after TSA, EPA, United Nations reach to control OUR country despite the fact that without OUR money, they would be dead in the water. Will someone defune the UN??? How about TSA, after all they have never caught a terrorist ... they only know what they are doing when they catch them doing something unusual... AFTER THEY HAVE BOARDED THE PLANE. We want SOME security, but not at the expense of our privacy. Is that such an unusal request from a citizen of the Land of the free??
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The Romney campaign does not want any distractions from the focus on Obama's record concerning the economy, jobs, debt, deficit and spending.