SHOULD ERIC HOLDER BE FIRED?

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Holder's Got To Go
Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Staff

Competence:Stumbling from one gaffe to another and showing little appreciation for our Constitution, Attorney General Eric Holder has become a major embarrassment. Time to admit he's in over his head and let him go.

We were never big fans of the AG, but like many others, we had hoped our misgivings were wrong and that he'd be successful as the nation's top law enforcement officer. Sorry to say, he hasn't been.

Events in recent days and weeks show that Holder has little if any understanding of our nation's most precious asset, the Constitution, and seems oblivious to the actual requirements of his job.

An appearance before the House Judiciary Committee last week illustrates the problem. Holder told the panel that Justice Department decisions "are done in a political way." Thanks for the honesty, but that's not what the job requires.

This may explain why Holder could question whether Arizona's new law on illegal immigrants is "unconstitutional" and imply that those who drafted the bill were racist, and, in the next breath, admit that he hadn't even read the 17-page bill.

If he took the time to read it, he'd discover that Arizona's measure basically takes existing U.S. federal law and makes it state law too. Is the federal law unconstitutional as well?

By the way, the only reason Arizona felt the need for such a law was that the U.S. Justice Department â€” which Holder heads â€” refuses to enforce U.S. law as written. The state's porous border has become a major source of drug and human trafficking, kidnapping, murder and other crimes. In short, Arizona had no choice.

Of equal concern, Holder seems to treat the War on Terror (yes, we still use and capitalize the term) as a joke.

Fortunately, the airline underwear bomber and Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, both failed. But we weren't so lucky when Malik Nadal Hasan, an Army-trained doctor who also happened to be a Muslim extremist, murdered 11 people and badly injured several others.

Fact is, the U.S. is being probed by radical Islamist terrorists, some homegrown, for a major attack. A big reason for that is they think we're weak. Someday they'll succeed.

Just this week, Steve Emerson's respected Investigative Project on Terrorism noted with concern that terrorist experts have detected a shift in terrorists' attention â€” from weak spots overseas to the U.S. homeland. It's only a matter of time.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysi ... ?id=534208

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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No Justice for Panther prosecutor
Washington Times

Something is wrong with a Justice Department that treats its own attorneys worse than it treats civil-rights violators those attorneys would prosecute. On Friday, after evasive testimony by Justice official Thomas E. Perez to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, department attorney J. Christian Adams resigned in obvious disgust

at the deep-sixing of a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party.

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Yet when the commission subpoenaed Mr. Adams, his Obama-appointed superiors "ordered [him] not to comply," according to his resignation letter. ''I have incurred significant personal expense in retaining a number of separate attorneys and

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Mr. Adams could not abide such racism, nor being hung out to dry by his political bosses. That's why a principled man had to leave a Justice Department run by President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... rosecutor/

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Eric Holder Vs. Black Panthers
Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial

Civil Rights: The Justice Department explains that it dropped a Black Panther voter-intimidation case because of lack of evidence. Pay no attention to the thugs outside the polling place. Yet another reason Eric Holder must go.

On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther Party members King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Sha-bazz and Jerry Jackson were charged in a civil complaint with civil violations by "allegedly" violating the Voting Rights Act through intimidation, threats and coercion as they stood outside a Philadelphia polling place.

It was what Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, called "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen" â€” Black Panthers dressed in paramilitary garb, one brandishing a nightstick and saying things like, "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"

In January 2009, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit charging violations of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. When none of the defendants filed a response or showed up at a subsequent hearing, we'd have thought DOJ would have won its suit by default.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysi ... thers.aspx

Susannah wrote:

There's a very simple reason why this case isn't being prosecuted: If it were, then the identity of the individuals or organization that hired the thugs would be revealed. And Holder is desperate for that information to remain secret. The thugs were bought and paid for, and told to do what they did.

USMarine · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:55 am **Posts:** 10483

Moby Grape wrote:

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Eric Holder Vs. Black Panthers
Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial

Civil Rights: The Justice Department explains that it dropped a Black Panther voter-intimidation case because of lack of evidence. Pay no attention to the thugs outside the polling place. Yet another reason Eric Holder must go.

On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther Party members King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Sha-bazz and Jerry Jackson were charged in a civil complaint with civil violations by "allegedly" violating the Voting Rights Act through intimidation, threats and coercion as they stood outside a Philadelphia polling place.

It was what Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, called "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen" â€” Black Panthers dressed in paramilitary garb, one brandishing a nightstick and saying things like, "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"

In January 2009, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit charging violations of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. When none of the defendants filed a response or showed up at a subsequent hearing, we'd have thought DOJ would have won its suit by default.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysi ... thers.aspx

Susannah wrote:

There's a very simple reason why this case isn't being prosecuted: If it were, then the identity of the individuals or organization that hired the thugs would be revealed. And Holder is desperate for that information to remain secret. The thugs were bought and paid for, and told to do what they did.

Can you imagine what would have happened if the KKK or some other white supremacist group would have engaged in this type of activity...?

I'll bet there wouldn't be a "lack of evidence" even if there were NO evidence.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Eric Holder's Selective Ethics
Weekly Standard, by John McCormack

Attorney General Holder apparently only selectively follows ethical rules governing what prosecutors can say about pending criminal investigations. Compare his comments on the Sestak scandal and the BP oil spill, only three weeks apart:

On Sestak (May 13) : "Attorney General Eric Holder would not comment Thursday on whether the Justice Department had launched an investigation into allegations of impropriety in the Pennsylvania Senate race. ... 'It is the Department's policy not to comment on pending matters, to say there is an investigation, to say there is not an investigation,' Holder later added."

On BP (June 1): "The U.S. Justice Department opened criminal and civil investigations into the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst in U.S. history. 'We will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who has violated the law,' Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday. 'This disaster is nothing less than a tragedy.'"

So much for equal justice under law.

http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/eric-ho ... ive-ethics

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Guess Who Got Eric Holder's Briefs in a Bundle?
AmericanThinker.com, by Jan LaRue

The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has voted 212-206 to ban the Obama administration from spending any funds to try terrorism suspects in civilian court instead of by military commissions. Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly all miffed and vexed. Since Congress failed to pass a new budget for 2011, the House passed a continuing resolution on Dec. 8 to continue funding the government next year. Somebody on the House Appropriations Committee, to Holder's supposed shock and dismay, inserted a provision that prohibits...

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/31066

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

edge540 wrote:

The White House didn't have anything to do with Fast and Furious.

back on topic....

http://204.2.104.194/discussionforum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10550&p=134560&hilit=furious#p134560

here ya go edge. It's the topic in this thread.

Scared little bunny?

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Issa to Holder: â€œYou OWN Fast and Furious;â€
resignation calls grow
Michelle Malkin

Eric Holder is on the hot seat, and GOP Rep. Darrell Issaâ€™s cranking up the temperature. Sent this morning: Dear Attorney General Holder: From the beginning of the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, the Department of Justice has offered a roving set of ever-changing explanations to justify its involvement in this reckless and deadly program. These defenses have been aimed at undermining the investigation. From the start, the Department insisted that no wrongdoing had occurred and asked Senator Grassley and me to defer our oversight responsibilities over its concerns about our purported interference with its ongoing criminal investigations.

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/10/10/is ... d-furious/

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Compliments of Barack Hussien Obama

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Holder Reveals Iran Plot To Distract From â€˜Fast and
Furious,â€™ Ends Up Highlighting Casesâ€™ Similarities
Big Peace, by Keith Davies

Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced at a news conference that an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States involved a conspiracy emanating from Iran. The timing of the announcement, as well as who delivered it, were both puzzling. In matters of security and terrorism, the normal person to call a news conference would be the head of the FBI and/or the head of the Department of Homeland security. Secondly, within 15 hours of the press conference, Eric Holder received a subpoena from Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee

http://bigpeace.com/kdavies/2011/10/19/ ... ilarities/

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Holder: No apology for "Fast and
Furious" death of border patrol agent
Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle

During a Tuesday Senate hearing, Attorney General Eric Holder refused to apologize to the family of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was murdered last December with a gun â€œwalkedâ€ to Mexico as part of Operation Fast and Furious..

Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn asked Holder if he has apologized to Terryâ€™s family for what happened to him because of the DOJâ€™s controversial program. Holder replied that he hasnâ€™t.

â€œI have not apologized to them, but I certainly regret what happened,â€ Holder said.

Cornyn followed up, asking if Holder has â€œeven talked to them.â€

â€œI have not,â€ Holder replied.

Cornyn offered Holder the opportunity to apologize to Terryâ€™s family, during the hearing, for his murder. â€œWould you like to apologize today for this program that went so wrong and that took the life of a United States law enforcement agent?â€

http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/08/holde ... rol-agent/

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

Today he said he refused to tell the family of the dead agent he apologized for what happened. That's the attitude of an uncaring guilty person. Anyone with any morals at all would have at lest apologized on behalf of the department. But no! Now he claims the emails came to his computer but staffers read them and didn't tell him. :roll:

Hell yes he needs to go. Needs to go to jail for outright lying to Congress if nothing else.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:51 pm

Obama admin seals records of murdered Border Patrol agent implicated in Fast and Furious

The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico.

This means information will now be kept from the public as well as the media. Could this be a cover-up on the part of the â€œmost transparentâ€ administration in history? After all, the rifle used to kill the federal agent (Brian Terry) last December in Arizonaâ€™s Peck Canyon was part of the now infamous Operation Fast and Furious. Conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the disastrous scheme allowed guns to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels.

Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of more than 1,000 guns which have been used in numerous crimes. In Terryâ€™s case, five illegal immigrants armed with at least two semi-automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and Terry got hit.

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

Where is the outrage? We had protesters with little idea of what they really wanted waste $millions for nothing. Here we have something worth protesting about and we just sit and take it.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Regionite wrote:

Where is the outrage? We had protesters with little idea of what they really wanted waste $millions for nothing. Here we have something worth protesting about and we just sit and take it.

People who care about this country are outraged at this. And their are a lot of them.

Unlike the useful liberal idiots such as the two on this board who have their head buried either in the sand or in Herman Cains sex life.

and they are WAY TOO chickenshit to address this

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Fast & Furious Lies
New York Post, by Michael A. Walsh

It was all a lie. The angry denials, the high dudgeon, the how-dare-you accuse-us bleating emanating from Eric Holderâ€™s Justice Department these last nine months. Operation Fast and Furious â€” the â€œbotchedâ€ gun-tracking program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives â€” did, in fact, deliberately allow some 2,000 high-powered weapons to be sold to Mexican drug cartel agents and then waltzed across the border and into the Mexican drug wars â€” just as Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa, who are leading the congressional investigations, have charged all along.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/op ... aeAxikkGUN

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

While the ignorant and stupid liberals busy themselves with Herman Cains sexual escapades.

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Eric Holder's New Scandal:
Money Laundering For Cartels
Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: The House committee probing government gun-running now sets it sights on possible money-laundering involving drug cartel funds run in the name of drug enforcement. Why should we believe DOJ this time?

It's an old adage that when investigating criminal activity you should follow the money. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has announced an investigation into a money-laundering operation allegedly run by the Drug Enforcement Administration. We may need to follow the people following the money.

Just as Fast and Furious was allegedly intended to track and interdict gun-trafficking into Mexico, this operation, detailed in a New York Times article Sunday, is said to have as its purpose to follow how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and, most important, who their leaders are.

But the question once again arises: Have the feds interrupted or aided the flow?

After a Friday document dump showing how deliberately deceptive the Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder were regarding Operation Fast and Furious,

http://news.investors.com/Article/59407 ... scheme.htm

Can anyone explain why liberals believe having sex is problematic when it comes to governing and leading our country and at the same time they don't even flinch at this?

anyone?

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