House Committee Schedules Vote on Whether to Hold Eric Holder in Contempt
- Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:43am by
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The House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents related to the Fast and Furious investigation.
If the measure passes through committee, it will then likely go to the full House for a vote. The news was first reported by CBS.
The Justice Department has insisted it has cooperated with the congressional investigation, turning over tens of thousands of documents and having Holder testify at hearings, most recently last week. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), one of the leaders of the investigation, said there are still tens of thousands of documents that have yet to be handed over, according to CBS.
“The Obama Administration has not asserted Executive Privilege or any other valid privilege over these materials and it is unacceptable that the Department of Justice refuses to produce them. These documents pertain to Operation Fast and Furious, the claims of whistleblowers, and why it took the Department nearly a year to retract false denials of reckless tactics,” Issa said in a statement announcing the vote, according to CBS.
Issa said the Justice Department can still put a stop to the contempt process by turning over the documents.
According to Fox News, the Republican leadership approved the committee’s move.
Issa first circulated a draft copy of the resolution laying out the contempt case for Holder in May.
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Comments (115)
LovingAmerica
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:25amIt has ONLY been a year and a half of investigations. Now, they are “scheduling” a vote for contempt against Holder. Well, I don’t think we need to hold our breath for the Republicans in the House to follow through. What a charade. Rep. Issa deserves an academy award for pretending to care, for dragging the course of action they are to take against this criminal out to infinity and beyond. Meanwhile, the criminals in the White House are running rampant, committing more crimes against America – completely unchecked.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:04amI’ll bet there will be a mass exodus of Obama admninstration member departing from U.S. soil come next Jan. 26th. They know the next D.O.J. will be seizing passports and filing warrants for the Unconstitutional actions ofObama and Obama’s NLRB,FCC,DOE,DOE,DOJ.EPA.and a host of others. These people need to be brought up on treasonist charges.
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:25pmI agree. Congress is a bunch of Spin less drones. Just what are they afraid of? Congress should have its own investigative branch independent of the Justice Department. What I joke our Congress is!
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:28pmI hold Holder in contempt and have for quite some time. Now prosecute his lying ass.
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:21pmAnd we want to elect Mitt “MORE GOVERNMENT” Romney
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:52pmIf the committee and the house as a whole don’t vote to hold him in contempt and demand his resignation the American people need to replace those who vote against. Epic Holdup is so guilty and so arrogant that he needs to be arrested and impeached. We should all be able to celebrate on Jan 26 when this bunch is gone. The problem is Sweet Old Barack isn’t going to go easy. If he doesn’t attempt to declare Martial Law he will mess up everything he can by executive order or departmental regulations and leave a nightmare for the next administration. This is a baby that can’t imagine losing and will kick and scream all the way back to Chicago.
OMG Nov 6, 2012
Report Post »littlefish
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:16amI think Eric the red should conduct his own investigation into whether he should be held in contempt . . .
Report Post »He is sure to find himself innocent . ..and everybody else just plain racist.
abbygirl1994
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:03amHe already did that.. its time to make the accessory to murder step down! Really he should be in prison.. being a so called attorney he knows he is guilty.. but sociopaths never take the blame for anything!
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:11pmhe does have superior knowledge of the situation
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:44pmDragging their feet almost sounds like the Obamacare thing. They needed time to buy off some people with big deals for them personally or for their constituents.
Report Post »Now, let’s figure this out. Who and whom have the most to gain if Eric walks?
Guns did their walking, are we gonna let Eric do his? Committee need some baseballs.
lynnissmart
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:16amWhy don’t they vote this week? What’s the hold-up?????? Get it done already and stop putting it off!!!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:29amI agree .. stop threatening and DO IT ALREADY! It i LONG past due that something be done about the ILLEGAL activities coming out of this White House. Should be reanamed the “RED” House until we get these Marxists OUT!
OMG 2012 LIBERTY!
Report Post »needmoinfo
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:35pmIt will be a long drawn out process. I think they have enough to press charges and remove him now. While waiting for the subpoenaed records he could be sitting in jail instead of the White House. Now that could speed things up. Where are these 80,000 plus records? Get warrants to back up your subpoenas and clean out agencies involved. If they see Holder arrested it should slow the leaks quite a bit. These are traitors. Some should go for state’s evidence.
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:13amTHAT’S IT? hold him in contempt? AND THEN WHAT?
knowing fully well how this department’s pos have delayed giving over information for more than 365 days, you can bet its not going to do anything harmful to his careeer if his boss is still in office.
Report Post »mils
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:22amimportant to vote vote in november and get obama out of office..
Report Post »be there physically or vote absentee..JUST VOTE!!.
We seem to have more trash than ever in office and in this administration..
Oh..NOTHING..will happen to HOLDER….NOTHING..
WakingSheep
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:25pm@mils
My opinion didn’t matter during the primary. Think I really am going to go out and vote for Big government progressive Romney against socialist Obama?
The GOP signed their own death ticket this time around. I’m not voting the lesser of two evils and that is what the GOP gave me to vote for.
Report Post »At least with Obama we can blame socialism when the whole thing goes to the sh!tter.
Who will they blame when it goes under with a “Capitalist (more like corporatist)”?
Redmanblackdog
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:13amHave you ever noticed how when the people of this country want something to happen, and the politicians don’t want the same results, then the vote almost always turns out to be just a few votes short. I am willing to bet that this is what is going to happen.
Then they parade the politicians out in front of the cameras and say things like “we almost had it”, “we were just a few votes short”, “we don‘t know why a few republicans wouldn’t go along with us”.
This is what you will hear from Boehner when it comes down to actually voting results on the contempt charges.
It will end up being an expensive investigation with no results! And they will say “we tried hard, and can‘t understand why we couldn’t succeed”.
Just like the balanced budget a decade ago. “Oh, we missed it by one vote”.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:12amHarry Reid will schedule a trial in the Senate….some time in 2050.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:07amThis is the same bunch of yahoos that couldn’t convict clinton of scr*wing an intern when the evidence was on the blue dress; how are they going to decide on contempt charges for this blatantly treasonous p o s? Voters do your job in November and vote all of them out.
Report Post »RodT82721
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:19amYour wrong!
Report Post »The house impeached Bubba, it was the Democrats in the Senate that refused to kick him out of office. The House did their job!
kaydeebeau
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:53pmThe crime Clinton committed was lying under oath – I get sick of hearing this framed as a “sex event” a sitting president lied under oath.
Report Post »Fatheroftwo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:05pmWow ! A sitting President lied under oath! Now there’s something that Never happens!!!! News Flash…… When the newly elected President holds up his hand and swears to defend the Constitution, what do you think happens the very next time they open their mouth??? I‘ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count!!!
Report Post »nosharia
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:05amYou watch…Obama will throw Holder under the bus, and get as far away from him as possible. It’s what he does.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:16amI’m not so sure he will, hanging on to him gives Obama another excuse to throw the race card against the Republicans in the House.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:25amWhat Gonzo said. Complete travesty, but the deck of race cards still has a few jokers left to play.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:27amGonzo Barry can always find another black racist to fill Holders job if he believes doing so will help him,Barry out.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:43amSure he can Slayer, but by hanging on to Holder he can babble on about the whole thing being about a black A.G. and the Republican’s racism. Pure gold to his infantile base.
Report Post »bleuze
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:42pmWhat I would also like to know is why the media did not ask why Obama gave up his law license (most likely got word of the action) rather than have the Illinois bar revoke it for LYING (nothing new) on his application!
Report Post »Conservative AMERICA
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:04amWhen I look into Eric Holders evil eyes, I see satan working
and with brainwashing children into anti-gun propaganda, blocking voter I.D. laws, protecting radical jihadists in the Holy Land Foundation trial & in building their monster-mosques across the nation and stonewalling in the Fast & Furious scandal he has a lot accomplished!
Report Post »PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:04amThe people of this nation that are awake to any degree already hold this man in contempt and know how corrupt he is. The reason they‘re not turning them over is because they are either going through them with a fine tooth comb or trying to alter them so they won’t get busted. PLEASE congress grow a set and hold this demon accountable for his actions. This is beyond politics now. Be the men God created you to be.
Report Post »Wildblue3
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:00amI hope they do find in comtempt. I have no doubt the house will. The Question is will the Senate? They have the majority so would enough dems turn on him? I also wonder if we are better off waiting until we have the majority in Senate and House so we can definately nail his butt to the wall.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:00amI find him to be extremely contemptuous…along with his buddy, Obama.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:57amWill the House Committee really have the courage to hold him in contempt?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:05amI think the committee will, but the House won’t. They’ll all be too afraid it will adversely affect the election.
Report Post »Wildblue3
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:35amGonzo, I hope you are wrong on that but I‘m afraid you’re right. Boehner has been reluctant to hold Holder in contempt. That makes me think it’s political. He doesn’t want the republicans to be seen in a bad light. They have to realize that that the Liberal Media will do that no matter what. If they were holding off till the Republicans take control of house and senate, that I could understand.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:50amWildblue, they all remember the Ken Starr investigation and how the media turned the country against them with their slanted journalism. It’s not a totally irrational fear right before an election.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:30amWhere did they find Boehner and can we give him back?
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:30pmWait and gather evidence until December, schedule the trial for February and hammer him.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:05pmDmerwin, that‘s exactly what I’m thinking.
Report Post »needmoinfo
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:06pmThe longer it drags on the more it hurts Obama. Problem appears to be that some of our seasoned career politicians possibly in unison with all those unvetted czars, and aides and assistants in the White House followed Obama’s brazen lead in trying to make him look like a super hero. They broke laws in the process and destroyed our security, reputation and credibility. Like a middle school clique. gossip central, childish yet devastating to the entire globe in its scope. The facts will be had eventually and all envolved will look treasonous. People have died and we are all in danger. Obama created this can of worms that runs wild in the White House doing his job for him so he could campaign, golf and vacation away the bulk of his first term. They appear to have all had carte blanche and no checks in place. Congress finally stepped in. Are they in time? Let the finger pointing begin.
Report Post »bobbyjoe
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:56amHope this is just the beginning of the charges against members of this administration.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:04amThis administration makes Nixon look like a quire boy.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:14amI characterize our current oppressors as a regime and not an administration because these bastards are ruling us and not governing us based on their actions the last three and a half years.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:56amMy first thought is “Finally, and it’s about time!” Then my second thought is that Boehner will probably object. I hope that I am wrong, but I really expect him to run some sort of interference. Boehner lately has been moving and speaking as though somebody (like Holder) really knows about some hidden skeletons in his closet.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:10amBoehner to me has always seemed like a candyass always crying at the drop of a hat,and to cry that much in public he’s probably unstable.Holder and the entire regime should be held in contempt of congress and ole tricky Dick Nixon was impeached and forced to resign for half of what this Marxist regime has done.
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:55amthe only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. Balls. You got that?
and congress has NONE!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:32amA bunch of candyasses the lot of them and most are criminals to boot.
Report Post »rawmilker
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:04pmI believe that when obama was confirmed the president, everyone in DC made a pact and the scuttle was “ok people, we have a four year free for all coming up, a window for all of us to make alot of money, so lets sit back and rake it in off the taxpayer base and bribes from the left wing progressive corporations and FED bank”…
Report Post »majorsco
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:55amWhat is the point of a vote on contempt of Congress? Of course it is contempt of Congress. It is also contempt of the people of the United States. He’s above the law because he is the chief law officer. Unless Obama is impeached (or loses the election), nothing will change.
Report Post »Delores at CH WV
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:53amThis decision is way over due. This man should have never been confirmed. I blame the Senate for allowing this corrupt man to take this job. He is the worst AG in the history of this country and he sure is Not about Justice for the people. He is lawless. His law license should be taken.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:59amCouldn’t have said it better!
Report Post »majorsco
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:59amI completely agree. Not only is he incompetent, but he’s hyper partisan and a blatent racist in the manner in which he carrys out his duties. Just look at the election case against the new black panthers. It was on video tape and he just declined to investigate let alone prosecute! A total embarrasement to the rule of law.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:05amAnd if the House Oversight Committee can’t get this right…..well…..then we know for sure we are being duped…..no doubt………..
Report Post »needmoinfo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:53amA glimmer of hope.
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:52amAbout time, I certainly hold him in contempt!!!
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:52amI will be truly disgusted if the majority does not vote to get rid of him. If it does not get taken care of as it should, it will disclose to us of how many are actually involved in a cover up. I am sure that Obama is behind it too. After he is not voted in as president, they need to do a full investigation on that evil man so as he cannot collect a presidential retirement salary.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:51amHold him in Contempt; he will never be convicted in a court though so long as Obama is in office; unless Obama has decided to offer him up as a scapegoat to ‘appease the masses.’
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:57amWe are familiar with Obama and the Under the Bus Routine .
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:49amPut him in jail,where he belongs
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:48amHolder is a racist socialist that does the bidding of his master Obama.
Report Post »If this guy does not get indicted while in office , I believe he certainly will when the conservatives take over the White House and Congress this coming November.
contkmi
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:46amToo bad there aren’t other criminal charges pending against him.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:57amWhy do you say that? He is going to die of old age before they even prosecute him for contempt. There is NO justice in America anymore. It’s illegal to defend yourself and criminals are running the booby hatch.
Report Post »contkmi
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:11am@Chips: Unfortunately, I think you may be right. There is no respect for law anymore. At least from the current administration and its minions. Of course, CONgress has had very little respect for the Constitution for a long, long time.
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