Murder, illegal drugs, and the desire to validate some highly dubious statistics. "Ninety percent of all the guns that the Mexican gangsters have come from America!"
And the people said, "Bunk!"
And the government said, "Oh, yeah? We'll show you!"
And so they "threw down" 2000 guns on the Mexican side.
And then they said, "There! Yasee? What did we tell you? Now give up those guns!"
And somewhere in the process, a good man, just doing his duty, died in the line of that duty.
Justice Department will not prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder
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By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, June 30, 2012 2:15 EDT
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Saturday, June 30, 2012 2:15 EDT
The US Justice Department said it would not prosecute Attorney
General Eric Holder over his refusal to hand over documents on a botched
gun-running operation to Congress, even after the House of
Representatives held him in contempt.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Deputy 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 wrote.
Justifying
his refusal, Cole cited a “longstanding position” of the Justice
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.
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Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/06/30 19:10:59
The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal
"According to the letter, the wiretap applications contained a startling amount of detail about the operation, which would have tipped off anyone who read them closely about what tactics were being used.
Holder and Cummings have both maintained that the wiretap applications did not contain such details and that the applications were reviewed narrowly for probable cause, not for whether any investigatory tactics contained followed Justice Department policy.
The wiretap applications were signed by senior DOJ officials in the department’s criminal division, including Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco and another official who is now deceased."
http://www.rollcall.com/news/...
But the following is what this administration, Democrats' and people like you are doing:
Conveniently trying to forget that someone did.
Another CYA moment.
I would lmao if it weren't so sad.
And I'm certainly disappointed.
Mind you, I'm not saying Dems are angelic. Far from it. But given the utterly disgusting alternative, even mediocre seems pretty good.
"Corroborating evidence"? I guess I remember it differently.
You and I do remember it differently. We have three other women who say Thomas's behavior was inappropriate. We have the testimony of a professor at American University who interviewed her for a job. We also have her ex-boyfriend as well as Thomas's former college roommate. I'd call that an extremely strong, even overwhelming, circumstantial case.
Independent prosecutors are necessary.
Remember that the assertion of executive privilege by former presidents were in relation to their own conversations and documents within the WH, with direct WH staff members.
Using that assertion to cover a Cabinet member has never been done.
The DOJ will not prosecute its boss because there are no credible charges. Darrell Issa did his usual grandstanding while he ran for re-election.
And really, do you want to go there with the "grandstanding during re-election" comment? Seems to me, I see it from both sides.