CBS Boston ^ | June 29, 2012 | Scott Paulson
In the second most interesting political story of the day to come out of Washington, D.C. yesterday, United States Attorney General Eric Holder was voted by the House of Representatives as “in contempt” for not turning all requested documents regarding “Fast and Furious” over to Congress.
As anyone who has followed the story could have predicted prior the Congressional vote, Holder said publicly: “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 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.”
Newsflash for Attorney General Eric Holder: you should have turned over the documents as you previously said you would. Then you wouldn’t have justifiably been found “in contempt”. You are absolutely “in contempt” – and look guilty of wrongdoing.
This is not all about politics in a presidential election year – anymore than Watergate was politics in Nixon’s era. This is about Eric Holder withholding proof that there were errors in his Department of Justice which led to Mexican drug cartels ending up with guns provided by the United States government.
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On a final note about Holder being held “in contempt”, it’s disturbing that certain lawmakers – primarily Congress’s Black Caucus – have shed a glaring light of racism in the Congress’s continued search for the truth regarding “Fast and Furious”. In liberal and Democratic-style, approximately 100 lawmakers walked out and refused...
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