By David Jackson, USA TODAY
Holder attacks Republican critics over contempt citations
Holder is going after his congressional Republican critics, calling last week's contempt citations an election year ploy designed to hurt President Obama.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Holder said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and other Republicans involved in the "Fast and Furious" investigation are getting back at the Justice Department over other policies, such as voting rights, gay marriage and immigration.
"I've become a symbol of what they don't like about the positions this Justice Department has taken," Holder told the Post. "I am also a proxy for the president in an election year. You have to be exceedingly naive to think that vote was about ... documents."
Holder said, "I've been doing all of these things all the time Darrell Issa and his band have been nipping at my heels. They've been nipping, but I've been walking."
Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the dispute is very much about documents -- specifically, documents related to the botched "Fast and Furious" gun trafficking operation that may have contributed to the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
"As often as (Holder) has tried to cast himself and his other controversies as the reason for the investigation, he still doesn't acknowledge the simple truth," Issa told the Post. "The citation for contempt had his name on it because the lawfully issued subpoena for documents issued nine months ago, that his department didn't comply with, also had his name on it."
At Holder's request, President Obama asserted executive privilege over the documents in question, saying Congress is not entitled to internal administration deliberations.
The Republican-run House voted to hold Holder in both criminal and civil contempt last week.
The Justice Department has said it will not prosecute Holder on the criminal contempt citation; the House may press the civil citation with a lawsuit.
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Today is
Republicans "Good Old Boy Network" in Full Operational Mode
On 6/28/12, I wrote an opinion on the Jasper City, T.X. Good Old Boy Network, in which, the Jasper Mayor and the citizens removed the 4 black members of the 5 member city council in order to fire their first Black Police Chief.
The Good Old Boy Network is a system that put in place, people of their ilk, by removing those it doesn't like, by using a system of corrupt members, used to oust any possible challengers to their Good Old Boy System.
Eric Holder is a pawn being targeted by the Republican Good Old Boy Network, with the full intentions of taking out the leader of the Justice Department, or at a minimum, impugn Holder's reputation.
President Obama is going to be very hard to beat in the upcoming election, so, in order to pull some strings to ensure that the republicans get more votes than President Obama, the game plan is to reduce the number of voters capable of voting for President Obama.
The Newly designed "Voter ID" laws and rules are meant to affect the people who, would more often not, have a valid ID, which are poor people of all colors, and it's a large majority of those poor people who would vote for President Obama
Thus, to create a harsh voting environment will cut the number of votes that President Obama receive. The Republicans always vote, so for them, the Republicans know that their numbers will show up.
Therefore, Eric Holder, the leader of the Justice Department across the nation, his actions to overrule the illegal voter ID laws that are being put in place in Republican and some Democratic states, are being removed by Justice Holder.
The Republican Good Old Boy Network just put on a show of obvious degradation attempt, in order to undermine the man who has a great reputation of enforcing the law.
Hopefully, now..., I hope that Eric Holder understands that he is dealing with not just bad people in elected positions, but, people who are skilled in the art of destroying others in order to get their way.
Here's a hint Holder, all the Republicans that signed the secret tax pledge..., all broke their Oath of Office, and their subsequent actions to refuse to vote in favor of considering the removal of Bush's Tax Breaks for the rich, is physical evidence of "Treason" against the United States Sovereignty.
Go Get Them Eric Holder
In My Opinion
ASMFMB
5/1/2012
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