Will the Corruption at the Department of Justice Never End?
Senate approves Breuer supporter as head of OIG at Justice
“Attorney General Eric Holder today welcomed the confirmation of… Michael E. Horowitz as Inspector General for the Justice Department,” a Friday Office of Public Affairs release announces.
“…Horowitz [was] confirmed yesterday by the U.S. Senate,” it reports.
The nominee was confirmed by a voice vote, per the Library of Congress THOMAS legislative database.
As Ronald Kolb at American Thinker reported on October 7, 2011:
And Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder are apparently leaving nothing to chance. On July 29, Obama nominated Michael Horowitz (who had previously worked at the Justice Department) to become the full-time inspector general. It turns out that in 2009, when Lanny Breuer was facing confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Horowitz had sent them a personal recommendation on Breuer’s behalf.
Breuer’s “Project Gunwalker” culpability has been the subject of scrutiny both at the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog and Gun Rights Examiner since early February, 2011. During that time period, just a few months after the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, it has subsequently been learned that Breuer was still suggesting “fighting arms trafficking by using the tactic of intentionally letting guns flow into Mexico via criminals.”
The Office of Inspector General, which Horowitz will now head, has also been the subject of scrutiny under the stewardship of acting Inspector General, long-time Eric Holder loyalist Cynthia A. Schedar, whose office was reported to have shown deliberate indifference from the outset on Gunwalker whistleblower complaints resulting in a “no confidence” assessment from ranking Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Grassley. Also of concern: the length of time it’s taken to complete the investigation, and allegations of inappropriate information leaks in both Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious investigations.
With all the apparent issues and concerns at stake, and with the Department of Justice stonewalling Congressional oversight every step of the way, why is it appropriate to approve the administration’s strategically-picked nominee–the guy Obama and Holder want be in charge of future “Gunwalker” investigation efforts–without creating a record of “the names or numbers of senators voting on each side”?
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4. Attorney General Eric
Holder: Attorney General Eric Holder now operates
the most politicized and ideological Department of Justice (DOJ) in recent
history. And revelations from the Operation Fast and Furious scandal suggest
that programs approved by the Holder DOJ may have resulted in the needless
deaths of many, including a federal law enforcement officer.
Fast and Furious was a
DOJ/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “gun-running”
operation in which guns were sold to Mexican drug cartels and others, apparently
in hopes that the guns would end up at crime scenes. This reckless insanity
seems to have resulted in, among other crimes, the murder of Border Patrol Agent
Brian Terry, who was killed in a shootout with Mexican criminals in December
2010. Fast and Furious guns were found at the scene of his death.
The Fast and Furious
operation by itself should have resulted in Holder’s resignation, but it is the
cover-up that has prompted serious calls for Holder’s ouster.
On May 3, 2011, in a
House Judiciary Committee hearing chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Holder
testified: “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and
Furious for the firs...
4. Attorney General Eric
Holder: Attorney General Eric Holder now operates
the most politicized and ideological Department of Justice (DOJ) in recent
history. And revelations from the Operation Fast and Furious scandal suggest
that programs approved by the Holder DOJ may have resulted in the needless
deaths of many, including a federal law enforcement officer.
Fast and Furious was a
DOJ/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “gun-running”
operation in which guns were sold to Mexican drug cartels and others, apparently
in hopes that the guns would end up at crime scenes. This reckless insanity
seems to have resulted in, among other crimes, the murder of Border Patrol Agent
Brian Terry, who was killed in a shootout with Mexican criminals in December
2010. Fast and Furious guns were found at the scene of his death.
The Fast and Furious
operation by itself should have resulted in Holder’s resignation, but it is the
cover-up that has prompted serious calls for Holder’s ouster.
On May 3, 2011, in a
House Judiciary Committee hearing chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Holder
testified: “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and
Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” Newly released documents
show he was receiving weekly briefings on Fast and Furious as far back as July
5, 2010. It appears Holder lied to Congress. (Judicial Watch sued the DOJ and
the ATF to obtain Fast and Furious records. The Judicial Watch investigation
continues.)
Unfortunately, when it
comes to Holder's corruption and abuse of office, Fast and Furious is just the
tip of the iceberg.
On February 23, 2011,
Attorney General Eric Holder announced that DOJ lawyers would no longer defend
the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), as
applied to homosexual couples. DOMA had passed Congress by a vote of 85–14 in
the Senate and a vote of 342–67 in the House. President Clinton signed the act
into law on September 21, 1996.
Judicial Watch filed
two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the DOJ (including one on
behalf of the Family Research Council) for records related to this
pro-homosexual marriage decision. This failure to defend this federal law is
unprecedented and raises serious questions as to whether President
Obama and Eric Holder are
upholding their oaths of office and following the Constitution’s command to
“take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
The DOJ continues to
stonewall the release of information regarding Supreme Court Justice Elena
Kagan’s participation in Obamacare discussions when she served as Solicitor
General. In addition to forcing Judicial Watch to file a lawsuit to obtain this
information, Holder’s DOJ thumbed its nose at Congress by failing to release
this material to the Senate Judiciary Committee during Kagan’s judicial
confirmation hearing. Holder continues to personally resist requests from
Judicial Watch and Congress for additional information on this controversy.
Kagan’s role in these discussions is especially significant now that the U.S.
Supreme Court has announced it will consider challenges to the constitutionality
of Obamacare in Spring 2012.
New revelations emerged
in 2011 about the DOJ’s Black Panther scandal. Judicial Watch uncovered evidence
that the liberal special interest group National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) may have had an inappropriate amount of influence on
the DOJ’s decision to drop its voter intimidation lawsuit against the New Black
Panther Party for Self Defense. This comes on the heels of sworn testimony that
the Civil Rights Division of the Holder DOJ makes enforcement decisions based
upon race.
Most recently, Judicial
Watch obtained shocking documents suggesting the Holder DOJ is conspiring with
scandal-ridden Project Vote (President Obama’s former employer and ACORN front)
to use the National Voter Registration Act to increase welfare voter
registrations. One former ACORN employee (and current Project Vote Director of
Advocacy), Estelle Rogers, is even helping to vet job candidates for the Justice
Department’s Voting Rights Division! (ACORN and Project Vote have a long record
of voter registration fraud.)
Seeming to affirm
ACORN’s hijacking of the DOJ, Holder recently said in a speech that he plans to
use “the full weight” of the agency in 2012 to attack states that are enforcing
laws that protect against fraud in the voting booths. This speech ended the
pretense that the DOJ is independent from the Democratic National Committee and
the Obama campaign – as it repeated almost verbatim the partisan arguments made
by the Democratic Party against voter ID laws.
Holder must go. Pick
your reason – Black Panthers, race-based decision making, abandoning the Defense
of Marriage Act, Fast and Furious killings and lies, or turning the DOJ into an
arm of the radicalized left –- but Holder must go.