House Dem breaks from party,plans to vote for Holder in contempt

[tinydancer]

Wow. Here we go. Here's where we get to witness "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly".

Kudos to this Democrat.

" The Democratic Party’s resistance to holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress is crumbling.

Utah Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson said Tuesday he plans to vote in favor of holding Holder in contempt over his refusal to comply with a subpoena into the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.

“It just compounds the tragedy when both sides play politics instead of releasing the facts. The Terry family, the public and Congress deserve answers,” Matheson said in remarks first reported by the Salt Lake Tribune in his home state. “Sadly, it seems that it will take holding the attorney general in contempt to communicate that evasiveness is unacceptable.”

Read more: House Dem plans to vote for Holder contempt | The Daily Caller

 

[Conservative]

Wow. Here we go. Here's where we get to witness "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly".

Kudos to this Democrat.

" The Democratic Party’s resistance to holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress is crumbling.

Utah Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson said Tuesday he plans to vote in favor of holding Holder in contempt over his refusal to comply with a subpoena into the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.

“It just compounds the tragedy when both sides play politics instead of releasing the facts. The Terry family, the public and Congress deserve answers,” Matheson said in remarks first reported by the Salt Lake Tribune in his home state. “Sadly, it seems that it will take holding the attorney general in contempt to communicate that evasiveness is unacceptable.”

Read more: House Dem plans to vote for Holder contempt | The Daily Caller

 

[clevergirl]

Rumor has it that it will be a bipartisan vote to hold him contempt.

 

[Truthmatters]

Yeap some of the conservadems need to keep their NRA ratings high

 

[percysunshine]

Ollie North went to jail and then got a job with Fox News.

 

[Sherry]

Yeap some of the conservadems need to keep their NRA ratings high

You mean they're not a bunch of racists??

 

[BreezeWood]

Wow. Here we go. Here's where we get to witness "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly".

Kudos to this Democrat.

" The Democratic Party’s resistance to holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress is crumbling.

Utah Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson said Tuesday he plans to vote in favor of holding Holder in contempt over his refusal to comply with a subpoena into the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.

“It just compounds the tragedy when both sides play politics instead of releasing the facts. The Terry family, the public and Congress deserve answers,” Matheson said in remarks first reported by the Salt Lake Tribune in his home state. “Sadly, it seems that it will take holding the attorney general in contempt to communicate that evasiveness is unacceptable.”

Read more: House Dem plans to vote for Holder contempt | The Daily Caller

Hoyer: Some Dems Will Vote To Hold Holder In Contempt For Fast And Furious « CBS DC

The chief Democratic House head counter, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, declined to tell reporters how many defections he expected, but acknowledged that some in his party would consider heeding the NRA’s call for a “yes” vote.

An NRA letter to House members contended that the Obama administration “actively sought information” from Operation Fast and Furious to support its program to require dealers to report multiple rifle sales.

... and pandering for the NRA is not political

same article: - - However, the case Issa repeatedly cited in his letter distinguishes carefully between the “presidential communications privilege” and the “deliberative process privilege,” which Obama invoked in the current dispute over Operation Fast and Furious. In the case Issa cited, the court dealt only with the presidential communication privilege but observed that both the communications privilege and the deliberative privilege are executive privileges designed to protect the confidentiality of executive branch decision-making.

... pandering for Issa and the republicans is not political either

 

[buckeye45_73]

awwwwww TM is about to cry, how sad. Oh wait he'll have his HuffPo talking points tommorrow.

 

[waltky]

DOJ lookin' out fer their own...

US attorney general won’t be tried
Sun, Jul 01, 2012 - EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE: The Justice Department said the invoked presidential right to withhold documents meant the Attorney General had not committed a crime

The US Department of Justice said late on Friday it would not prosecute US Attorney General Eric Holder over his refusal to hand over documents on a botched gun-running operation to the US Congress, even after the US House of Representatives held him in contempt. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Deputy US Attorney General James Cole said the Justice Department had “determined that the attorney general’s response to the subpoena issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform does not constitute a crime.” “Therefore the department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the attorney general,” Cole said.

Justifying his refusal, Cole cited a “longstanding position” of the department not to prosecute officials for withholding documents “pursuant to a presidential assertion of executive privilege.” Cole reminded Boehner that former Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush had asserted the same privilege in their dealings with Congress. The refusal came after US lawmakers on Thursday took the historic and controversial step of holding Holder in contempt over the gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious. Launched in Arizona by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the operation was to track weapons purchased by straw buyers and smuggled to Mexican drug cartels. However, many of the guns went missing, and two were later found at the murder scene of a US Border Patrol agent.

US Representative Darrell Issa, who chairs the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which led the investigation, is seeking to discover who in the government knew about the operation and whether there was a cover-up. Holder has testified about the scandal nine times and turned over 7,600 documents, but Issa says that is less than 10 percent of what was being sought. Issa is after material that shows why Holder’s department retracted as inaccurate a letter written in February last year to lawmakers that said senior officials were unaware of Fast and Furious — and why the retraction took 10 months. The contempt resolution was adopted by 255 to 67 in the Republican-led House. Several dozen Democrats refused to participate, while 17 in US President Barack Obama’s party voted to find the nation’s top justice official in criminal contempt.

The move paves the way for legal action over a probe into Fast and Furious, and Holder’s failure to turn over internal Justice Department documents and e-mails sought through subpoena by a congressional panel conducting the investigation. The House also passed a civil contempt resolution, which would authorize the panel to sue the Justice Department in federal court over the documents. The contempt finding, the first for a sitting member of a president’s Cabinet, was immediately branded by the White House as a “transparently political stunt.” However, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said Obama and the White House “have failed to live up to their promises of openness and transparency, and voters will surely hold them accountable in November.”

US attorney general won?t be tried - Taipei Times