Fast and Furious showdown: Holder/Obama defend bloody culture of contempt; Update: Fortress Holder, Stonewall City; vid clips added, Dems advise, “Don’t answer”

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Forget Klownald Trump. This is your story of the day. Attorney General Eric Holder is on Capitol Hill day, facing another round of questions from relentless GOP watchdogs led by House Oversight and Govenrment Reform chair Darrell Issa.
You can watch the proceedings live on CSPAN online here.
The grilling comes as Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s family files suit against the lying ATF:
The family of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry charged Wednesday that the top federal prosecutor in Phoenix lied to them about the guns found at the crime scene in an attempt to hide the weapons’ connection to the ATF’s failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
Terry was killed in December 2010, allegedly by Mexican bandits carrying at least two AK-47 semiautomatic rifles that had been purchased in Arizona as part of Fast and Furious. The operation was intended to catch drug lords using illegal weapons, but the ATF immediately lost track of 1,700 firearms.
The Terry family alleged that then-U.S. Atty. Dennis K. Burke told them last March that the two weapons came from a store in Texas and were not part of Fast and Furious.
The family made their allegations in a “notice of claim” stating that they intend to sue the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Justice Department for $25 million. They called the gun-tracking operation “abominable, reckless, nonsensical.”
Burke has resigned and has declined to discuss Fast and Furious. But the family’s claim notice strongly suggests that the federal government initially sought to keep Fast and Furious under wraps and hoped it would not be linked to the slaying.
House GOP leaders repeat what whistleblowers have been telling us from the start: Top White House/DOJ knew. They knew:
Top Department of Justice officials had extensive knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious, claims a new report released Thursday, hours before Attorney General Eric Holder’s scheduled testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The report released by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, top lawmakers investigating the botched gunrunning operation, claims Justice Department officials in Washington and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were involved in the coordination in the early stages of the operation.
Related InteractiveReport released by Issa and Grassley on Fast and Furious
Republican lawmakers Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) released a new report suggesting top Department of Justice officials had extensive knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious.
Justice headquarters “had much greater knowledge of, and involvement in, Fast and Furious than it has previously acknowledged,” the memo reads.
Rep. Issa’s preview statement in the advance of the hearing is here:
ate last year, after months of investigation, the Justice Department finally acknowledged the allegations were true. Fast and Furious was both reckless and flawed.
The Justice Department, however, has been less than forthcoming in cooperating with the efforts of Congressional investigators to determine exactly what happened and who was responsible:
• The Justice Department has delivered fewer than 8% of the 80,000 documents we know it has identified as being related to this flawed operation.
• It has refused to allow investigators access to numerous witnesses who participated in the operation – one witness, after being served with a subpoena, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to protection against self-incrimination rather than answer questions.
• Justice Department now asserts that many documents pertaining to internal discussions and decision making about its response to Operation Fast and Furious are off-limits to investigators.
The American people deserve better from our nation’s top law enforcement agency. Thursday’s hearing will feature the nation’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Eric Holder, who will be asked to explain his decision to withhold this factual evidence from investigators. What he is concerned this information would reveal? Why is the Department trying to keep its internal discussions about Operation Fast and Furious from after February 4, 2011 secret? Why did it take nearly nine months for the Justice Department to acknowledge its earlier denials were false? Why did senior Justice Department officials who knew about and received briefings on the operation fail to stop it? Should Americans have confidence in their chief law enforcement agency even though these same officials remain in their posts?
There is now broad bipartisan agreement that the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious has exposed a serious and deadly failure of government. We know that the life of a brave Border Patrol agent has been lost along with countless Mexican citizens who have been victimized by guns from Operation Fast and Furious. Attorney General Holder has acknowledged that the danger created by Fast and Furious will continue for years.
This hearing is not about controversial struggles between gun control advocates and supporters of the Second Amendment. It is about the unifying, and what should be bipartisan, expectation that the Justice Department be held to a high standard and that those who failed to meet this standard should be held accountable. I look forward to Attorney General Holder’s testimony.
After Issa threatened contempt charges against the Department of Justice Obstructionists, DOJ responded with…more obstruction:
The Justice Department response Wednesday rejected Issa’s February 9, 2012, deadline to produce all demanded documents. Cole called the deadline “impossible” to meet because of the broad scope of the request.
He did not directly refer to the threat of a contempt charge by Issa.
…The hearing Thursday will not be the end of the battle over Operation Fast and Furious. The Justice Department’s inspector general continues to work on a detailed account of the origins of the operation, and who was involved. The report is not expected to be complete for at least a couple more months.
Holder has promised when it is completed, he is prepared to make individuals accountable. But Holder says he has no plan to seek resignations or administer discipline until that report is complete.
The corruption keeps piling up. Matthew Boyle has a hard-hitting investigative piece in the Daily Caller exposing yet another DOJ scandal involving alleged bribery of top officials involved in a financial fraud probe:
A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted.
The sitting governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his attorney general and an unspecified number of Virgin Islands legislators also accepted bribes, the source said, adding that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is aware prosecutors and elected officials were bribed and otherwise compromised, but has not held anyone accountable.
The bribed officials, an attorney with knowledge of the investigation told TheDC, remain on the taxpayers’ payroll at the Justice Department without any accountability. The DOJ source said Holder does not want to admit public officials accepted bribes while under his leadership.
That source said that until the summer of 2011, the two compromised prosecutors were part of a team of more than 25 federal prosecutors pursuing a financial crime ring, and at least five other prosecutors tasked to the case were also compromised by the criminal suspects they were investigating, without being bribed.
Washington knew what it was getting when it confirmed corruptocrat Eric Holder. Innocent people have paid with their lives. Ignoring this man and his boss’s utter, systematic contempt for the rule of law has yielded deadly consequences.
America, let’s not make that mistake again.
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Update:Go to my Twitter account for live-tweeting of the hearing.
Most jaw-dropping moment so far: Indignant Holder demanding he get “credit” for his work at DOJ.
Running joke: Every time gun-control Democrats call for more “tools.” There are plenty enough of them in charge in Washington.
Side note: Donald Trump stepping on this important hearing tells you everything you need to know about his purported interest in advancing conservative/GOP interests. Circus, circus.
Video clips:
GOP Rep. Issa’s opening statement:
GOP Rep. Patrick Henry underscores that there’s been no accountability for 13 months:
GOP Rep. Anne Marie Buerkle confronts Holder with Terry family’s plea for action. At the five-minute mark, you can’t hear it, but Democrats advised Holder: “Don’t answer:”
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Thorough investigations should accumulate enough evidence to not only remove Holder and other Obamaites from office but prosecute them for crimes. Only then will we begin to deny Democrats the ability to maintain our government as their racketeering operation.
I still believe Obama can be linked to criminal actions involving Solyndra and other cash-bundling schemes.
Where’s the Woodward and Bernstein of the MSM of today? Time to take down another megalomaniac, you poinyoins!
In a sane normal world bho, holder, big sis, dear hill, and every person involved would be in prison! But, bho and his slimy team are above the law they believe and so far not much has been done to change that?
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Eric (pornstache) Holder: I didn’t know anything about it and besides, what’s the big deal? It’s not like anybody was kil…er..um..nevermind.
Chicago corruptocrats don’t value anyone’s life but their own. I really doubt anything will come of this and they know it.
Actually, he reminds me of that skunk – PepeLePue.
Why doesn’t Issa send in the DC police to help them find the stuff? I mean, we’re all a team here, right?
Pepe Le Pew: Why did everyone leave? Oh, but of course! Already I have achieved a post of honor, and have been left to defend the fort. Viva la Republique!
I’m also noticing that liberals are claiming that this regime has fewer scandals than any other administration in history. Graphic evidence that they see only what they want to see.
The DOJ is thumbing it’s nose at this committee because they know nothing will be done about it. This committee does not have the will to get to the bottom of this corrupt bunch of crooks. Politics always supersedes justice.
On February 2nd, 2012 at 9:33 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
Where’s the Woodward and Bernstein of the MSM of today? Time to take down another megalomaniac, you poinyoins!
Hopefully, they will be on Mitt’s payroll when it comes down to a match with Barry… then the digging will hopefully commence in earnest…
here’s one I’d like to see unerathed:
Why did BOTH Barry and Michelle surrender their law licenses to practice in Illinois? Hmm… if , say, Gingrich or Mitt had surrenedered their licenses, I wonder if the MSM would be interested in the WHY? Anser: resoundingly YES…
LSM = Marxist Pukes.
Holder probably has more incriminating evidence on most members of Congress than Issa has on him. That’s the problem with thoroughly corrupt and entrenched government. And how many of them have wives, husbands, children working in the media? The appearance of justice has become a Dodge city facade.
Will anyone go to jail? I doubt it. Just a show by the Republicans, after all they are pols also
I feel sick to my stomach and dirty just knowing that scumbags like Eric Holder are in charge of the highest offices in the country. How have we come to this? It will take hundreds of Issas to fumigate this crowd. Obama and his czars…his entire staff, the a-holes in Congress (Reid, Waters, Jackson-Lee, Rangel, Schumer, etc) As each one of those faces flash into my mind, I get closer to weeping for my country. Please God, we want justice!!!
Graphic evidence that they are effing liars. They see everything. They just lie about it. Constantly.
Jouralism died in 2008.
Message to Holder: “Go directly to jail. Do not pass, Go. Do not collect $200.
Not on Grassley and Issa he doesn’t. Grassley is my Senator. He at times may be dumb as a post, but he’s clean. So is Issa.
This is a criminal matter. Politics be damned. Democrats need to understand that defending this program is going to be a political death sentence.
“Hey, look, Eric Holder’s lying again.”
“How can you tell?”
“His lips are moving.”
Pepe Le Pew: Oh! Come here my wild flower and we will rule together my sweet one..we will be rich and live in luxury…Oh my last heartbeat!
What are you all talking about?
I watch my network news every night after work. I read the Sunday paper.
If there was anything to this story, I’m sure I would have heard about it by now.
Honestly, don’t you people have more important things to worry about? Like how Romney doesn’t care about poor people. Or that Newt cheats on his wives.
(I just threw up in my mouth. This humor stuff is hard)
Pepe Le Pew: This little love bundle. Now she is seeking for us a trysting place. Touching, is it not? Come, my little peanut of brittle. I will help you. Wait for me. Wait.
I’m wondering why a special prosecutor has not been appointed to investigate this whole mess. We appointed one because Valarie Plame was outed as a CIA operative. This is much much more serious than that.
That’s why you should leave it to us professionals, we’re certified!
This is why I have no faith in the government to police its own. Nothing is going to happen. There will be no prosecution of these crimes. Just another day in the life of a politician.
As long as some of us get our hands filled with “Obama’s stash”, we don’t give a rats ass about integrity, honesty and the lives of the Brian Terrys of this nation.
It sickens me to know our government is corrupt, has been corrupt and probably will always be corrupt.
You can’t expect a crook to take his own organization to task for being crooked. This is what happens when the whole system if filled with crooks, liars, and con artists. Our political system is flooded with them. They make rules and laws for the little people not themselves. They are above the law because they are the lawkeepers.
You might keep in mind Romney is a white Obama and very little will change.
You forgot to mention how Newt’s wife was dying of cancer and completely ignored the part about Romney’s dog.
All of government is corrupt at this point, and it’s because of the people that we citizens continue to put in office, regardless of what they do, we reelect them.
In your case, Rogue, the word is ‘certifiable’.
I wonder how Eric (with)Holder will spin this bit of information from the memo:
Yeah, the death of a US border agent and countless number of Mexican nationals caused by the Justice Department allowing guns to end up in the hands of the Drug Cartels is just petty…../sarc
Sheryl Attkissonn of CBS News has done a great deal of work on this. Shockingly, it is not included in her Wiki bio although there is an interview mentioned that is supposed to make her look stupid.
Fixed it.
BHO will stand behind Holder ’til the end. He will never ever admit he made a huge mistake in hiring this idiot.
Funny thing about megalomaniacs – they like to surround themselves with people they view as inferior..
Yeah, he’ll stand behind holder but not for the reason you’re asserting.
So Eric Holder (and a vast majority of the ObaMao Administration?) is racist AND greedy … and this is news because … it is a surprise why???
Sad!
FIFY
Attoney Generals do not even do a #2 without Presidential approval. Obama was briefed on it and approved it.
I will bet my house that is true.
Urkel “Holder acted stupidly.”
Isn’t that the truth!! I laugh every time you talk about that joke Ron Paul! Funny stuff!!
Just kidding, RC!! Don’t yell at me!
On February 02, 2012 at 07:33 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
Reminds me of the spiking of the Lewinsky story….and the Juanita Broaddrick rape by Bill Clinton.
How many have been spiked here and elsewhere?
Clarification: How many have been spiked by the MSM?
Clarification: How many have been spiked by the MSM?
I think Misscheryl and I have come to the same conclusion. Eric Holder knows where all of Obama’s bodies are buried! College transcripts, birth records, past associations, girl/boy friends, etc. Obama MUST protect Holder. Much is at stake (pardon the vampire pun!)
OR, Misscheryl…did you mean he would literally stand behind Holder for another reason we dare not mention? Just askin!
Rogue Cheddar,
Dedicated to people like us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyAg75PsTA
I thought Barney Frank was retiring.
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Comrade Obama’s “under the radar” gun grab plan seems to have gotten a little too close to the radar. And seems to have pulled up into the main beam now. Targets coming into engagement range now.
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No way the Fast and Furious (aka deadly) operation could have “tracked” so many guns to Mexico. The years earlier illegal transfer of guns sting under President Bush 43′s operation did track the guns and did arrest people. And worked with the Mexican government and law enforcement agencies.
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A truly stupid plan that has probably killed over a thousand people already. Rep. Issa needs to pursue these above the law officials and use perjury charges against them. The Fifth Amendment defense only works until a person with real knowledge cuts a deal for immunity. Then their testimony can be used against higher ups in the enterprise.
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John Bibb
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On February 02, 2012 at 08:35 am, walterc said:
…and the pigs in the leftist media pounded that story for weeks.
Target is now faker. Designate.
#34 On February 2nd, 2012 at 11:06 am, Misscheryl said:
Barry strikes me as more of a wide receiver than a drop-back passer.
Or, like us empowered ones.
Pictures of him hanging curtains and riding his ‘lil bikey with his ‘lil hard hat come to mind…yep I’m thinkin’ you’re right.
Michelle –great reporting. Now for the rest of us, we are basically in soviet russia as far as the msm goes.
How did the non commies get the word out to all the people? How did the french underground work during WWII? How did Ghandi do it in India? I have been hiding in EMS for 1/4 century–what is the best way for me as a single person to help fight this obscene corruption?
NO, not a stupid plan. Evil yes. The plan was to get so many dead bodies tied to guns sold in Arizona and Texas that Pravda,
Lavrenti BeriaHolder and President Marx would attack the 2nd Amendment and do their best to disarm American citizens.Anyone who doubts that – please raise your hand….
yeah, but harry…reid isn’t.
I be bad…
I was thinking Half Black, er Back.
On February 02, 2012 at 09:33 am, old goat said:
My idea would be to write your Congresscritters asking what they are doing about investigating the death of Terry.
When you don’t get a response, or get some smarmy non-response, then put up Wanted posters locally for your congresscritter stating he is wanted for gross incompetence in their oversight duties involving the death of a federal law enforcement official.
Tie it around their necks personally and publicly and you might start seeing some action.
Meanwhile, Yahoo considers this story breaking news.
Too bad it wasn’t a Republican idea, or else Fast and Furious might actually get some attention from the MSM.
No, the operation was intended to make it seem that US gun dealers were in business to sell guns to Mexican cartels in support of their lies to force further gun control laws. They were not supposed to be connected to the operation and the criminals weren’t supposed to kill US officers…oops!
I recall Obama very early on talking about how most Mexican drug cartels were using guns mostly bought in the US. He knew full well about F&F and was hoping he could score political points…despite people being murdered with weapons they let “walk.” These people are beyond despicable. I want to puke when I hear Romney say “oh, but he means well!” No he doesn’t, this guy makes Nixon’s so-called crimes laughable by comparison!
Bin.Go.
Sad
Scary
Too true too
Alcohol epidemic – treated as a disease of users, admittedly uncontrollable, has been socially interwoven into everday life.
Drug Use – treated as a felony, claimed to be controllable, shunned by everyone even though everyone has used.
If Obama, Bush and Clinton all admitted to using drugs, why do they not have to spend time in jail and have felonies put on their recordsÉ
Holder won’t be saved by the race card this time. What a total dirt bag. He and all those who voted to confirm him need to go.
Everyone has used? Really? Link please. Everyone I know has NOT used. Where do you get your facts???
Maybe he meant in Canada.
That’s what Libertarians tell each other to convince themselves that we may as well just make heroin and cocaine legal.
On February 2nd, 2012 at 12:25 pm, happyscrapper said:
Everyone has used? Really? Link please. Everyone I know has NOT used. Where do you get your facts???
I’m with you, happy–geez, 123, project much??
Holder is evil. As are most of the people around him.
Yes, Virginia, there is true evil.
What in the Sam Hill does this have to do with authorizing a program that puts 2500 assault weapons, enough to equip a light infantry brigade, into the hands of a group of felons that have used them to kill 250 people, 150 of whom were members of the Mexican Army? The same group of peole who kill more civilians in Juarez, Mexico annually than the number of civlians killed in all of Afghanistan?
This is not Solyndra or Watergate. People are dead and crippled. We allowed all of these weapons to go across an international border and never told the government of Mexico.
Anyone who politicizes this should be ashamed. This is about violating your oath of office and the laws you were sworn to uphold and protect. Everyone who authorized this should face a felony murder charge.
“For duty and humanity!”
- Moe Larry and Curly (MEN IN BLACK, 1934)
Holder has known about this since last winter (if you believe that pile) and yet he has not fired anyone. Curiouser and curiouser.
(munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!
RC: pass the salt.
On February 2nd, 2012 at 12:42 pm,
I am guessing that all the drug use by 123upnorth has lead to him having problems focusing on the subject at hand.
I have to wonder if all this krap going on in dc now with holder and his refusal to give information is a way to take the heat off bho for all his krappy things he’s been doing? I bet the Friday dump will be a dandy?
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There is good reason to believe that the Obama people made deals with Hillary during the election campaign to do two things; first,in order to protect the former Clinton administration and convince Hillary to turn down the heat to allow Obama’s election, Obama would take on Holder as AG, because he knew where all the skeletons were under Clinton and others as a high Justice Dept. official. He could be banked on to “cooperate” and more importantly, appoint Hillary as Secretary of State, looking ahead at the possibility of her becoming President.
There is no good reason for Obama to have made these two oddball appointments, when there were many capable cohorts in his Chicago group to get them, except that he agreed to do so, for some unknown (as yet) reason.
Recall back when it was reported that Obama was overheard telling Sarah Brady that his administration was working under the radar toward more gun control. Now we know what he meant.
This fiasco has blown up in their faces and they are scrambling to contain the damage. They cannot and the truth will eventually come out. Issa is doing a good job and knows what he is doing. His patience will pay off. Get off his back, those of you suggesting he is not going to take this to it’s final conclusion.
Holder and other top ranked people in the Obama administration will use plausible deniability to escape blame. It may, or may not work. Nevertheless, they will all be damaged severely and it will impact his re-election.
By the way, there still has been no connection declared with our State Department. No operation involving any other Country, let alone our neighbors, can be conducted without the approval of State and/or the President himself. And anyone who is familiar with Federal investigative agencies, knows that an operation of the scope of Fast and Furious simply cannot occur without the highest possible approval of the White House, the Secretary of State, the Department of Justice and ATF. Otherwise, everyone under the top level people involved in the decision would be toast and they all know it. That’s a given in the Federal buraucracy. They “serve at the pleasure” and have no “right” to employment.
Things are working out. One official has already taken the Fifth. More will do so and things will start to fall apart. Issa and Grassly are displaying the patience necessary to bring this thing to a conclusion.
And 123 upnorth apparently has never heard of the statue of limitations.
They have tried that before and it no longer works. We can concentrate on more than one scam at a time! We can identify more than one Thug Criminal at a time. Their weave and dodge tactics are getting old and stale, just like the Friday night document dump. Apparently, it takes them a while to figure things out…like if you keep doing Friday night document dumps, the real journalists, like MM, will concentrate on scouring those documents with a fine tooth comb.
On February 02, 2012 at 10:11 am, 123upnorth said:
So now your rabid support for Nutball Paul becomes very clear.
I agree with what you said, but if it wasn’t for conservative blogs, we would never get the truth on what’s going on? You sure the heck won’t get it from most in dc or bhopress! bho and his whole team has never and will never tell the truth about anything, period.
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Is that the statue atop the Capitol Rotunda?
80,000 documents???? Only in government.
Jail them all. If they have any smarts the RNC could do a fanatastic media montage of Democrat corruption and criminality that would convert the most impassioned Liberal this November.
Gulp! Sorry Hangfire, for lack of a “t” I obviously goofed. On the other hand, if there were a “statue of limitations” on top of the Capitol Rotunda, it might remind the career politicians that there is a point at which there should be self imposed limits on government power.
Ah you gotta love stuff like this, and I don’t mean in a good way. When it happens people go onto the internet in the little chat rooms of their choice and stomp their feet and shake their fists but in the end do nothing. At what point are people going to take action necessary to ensure that stuff like this doesn’t happen? Whining about it does nothing. The only things that thug criminals like this understand is when you fight back hard. Just curious.
All stuff like this shows me is we are a gutless nation that allows criminal scum like this to do whatever they want to us and our families while we bend over and take it. When is enough, enough? You can take what I ask with a grain of salt but I really think this is a valid question…….when is enough, enough???
WOT but this is very important. For those of you who insist on dismissing Ron Paul as a nut and so cutting off rational discussion, who among the others will address this? Once the world infrastructure is in place, there will be no going back short of an existential collapse. We still have time but barely. And we are about to lose.
What do you think takes precedence, a failed defense policy where we are committed to a extra-constitutional and unfunded mandate to defend the world against itself or forcing our government to focus on why it was established in the first place: protecting our rights as citizens. I know where I stand.
If committing to world government is the price you are willing to pay for preventing a cartoonish misrepresentation of what Ron Paul from weighing on the fight he has been fighting almost single-handedly for almost twenty years, then knock yourselves out. I’m make my own decisions based on reality and reasoned thought.
The harder it becomes to have a rational, civilized and FAIR discussion about Ron Paul, the more people like me will abandon any of the other increasingly insane alternatives. How about giving “Paul-bots”, “crazy uncle” and the rest of the ad hominems a rest.
I am sure you would find the same in the private sector seeing as the federal regulations require copies be kept of all communications.
Not a goof, but a Freudian petticoat.
On February 02, 2012 at 11:15 am, RedDog said:
No. Liberals always know when its their thugs involved, NOTHING is too heinous.
…unless they start collaborating with those on the right.
On February 02, 2012 at 11:37 am, bbinfl said:
I see you stomping your feet but see no suggestions.
Whoever made that statement needs to be prosecuted for obstruction of justice.
Any illusion of objectivity has been shattered, but the sheeple will never hear it from the media.
These hearings are held with the hope that a smoking gun will be revealed. Will that prove to be the match that provides a spark that can be fanned into a flame? Time will tell. We know the Obamaites won’t be convinced; will the so-called independents be enraged to the point of demanding impeachment? Again, time will tell. Looking more and more like a third-world dictatorship.
After reading this I feel a need to go take another shower…
I see Lanny Bruer’s name mentioned. I keep confusing him with another Dimocrat hack by the name of Lanny Davis.
Possibly, but CONgress hasn’t the fortitude nor desire to impeach. At worst, one might expect Holder to be forced into resignation, likely with the promise of a less demanding and lower profile position.
Nice. I guess if one wanted to be on the wrong side of history, this would be a way.
I think that my suggestion would be deemed a bit much. But all I have to say is that it seems like no amount of talking to or vote threats or anything like that is going to keep stuff like this from happening again and again nor will it change the government’s utter contempt for us citizens, there is only one thing criminal scum like that understand. Basically if they smack you then you smack them back.
I appreciate your point however let’s not lose sight of fact that one agency generated 80,000 documents regarding one specific topic. That should tell anyone everything they need to know about big gubment. I’d bet my bottom dollar that IBM would have a tough time coming up with 80,000 documents related to a specific initiative that took place over a 2 year time period.
How convenient for the Masters of The Universe that their most vocal antagonist in Congress has been reduced to a Nutball. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/biggest-holders-of-us-gov-t-debt.html
If memory serves me correctly, there were only 31,260 microfiche drawings for a Trident submarine.