ERIC HOLDER MUST GO

Do you ever wonder how Obama gets away with the most outrageous acts ever perpetrated by a sitting president with barely a nick to his reputation?  
Did you scratch your head when not a single Justice Department or ATF official went to jail for sending hundreds of guns over the border to Mexican drug lords with the expressed purpose of fomenting violent crime?  Do you really think high ranking government officials are going to be held accountable for the now blazing Benghazi scandals?

If these and other questions like them have been bothering you for the past few years, I have a simple answer that explains how Obama and his liberal associates in government have gotten away with all the above and more: Attorney General Eric Holder will never, ever appoint a special counsel to investigate any crime even remotely connected to this administration.

It really is that simple. In fact, Holder practically admitted as much when he was questioned by Breitbart reporters as to whether he was going to appoint a special counsel to scrutinize Benghazi. His one word answer: “No”.

Holder may be corrupt, but he is no one’s fool. He knows that as soon as he appoints an independent prosecutor with subpoena power who can question witnesses under oath, and threaten them with jail time if they don’t answer truthfully, any resulting investigation could not only lead directly to himself and other high ranking officials at the DOJ, but could take down the State Department, White House and the rest of the Obama administration that seems to be overflowing with corruption.

It used to be that Congress could appoint its own special counsel to investigate crimes by the federal government, but in 1999 that power was reassigned to the Department of Justice.  Considering Holder has made a career of ignoring blatant abuses of power by the Obama administration, including scandals like the illegal firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin and the EPA’s use of fake email accounts to get around FOIA laws, the likelihood of the Attorney General initiating an investigation of Fast and Furious, which he is personally involved in up to his eyeballs, or the use of the IRS to intimidate political opponents, or any scandal this administration is involved in, is so miniscule as to not even be worthy of consideration.

Fast and Furious Scandal

Even though it boggles the mind that Fast and Furious was run out of a local office without the cooperation of high ranking officials, including those close to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Holder and the White House, who are the only ones with the requisite power to approve of such an audacious international operation, so far the blame has been pinned on low ranking prosecutors at the Phoenix DOJ office.

When Attorney General Eric Holder responded to the House committee on Fast and Furious by comparing those hearings to the hearings conducted by Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s on communists in government, the press was delighted.

“Have you no shame,” cried Holder in mock righteousness, displaying that the administration has neither shame nor a responsible adult in charge.

His tone was a bit more mature once press reporters found out that they weren’t just allies of the plutocracy, but targets as well.

Holder went from mock righteousness to mock ignorance as he stood before the House committee investigating why his department decided to spy on press reporters, saying:
·      "I was not the person involved in that decision,"
·      "I am not familiar with the reasons why the subpoena was constructed in the way that it was because I'm simply not a part of the case."
·      "I do not know, however, with regard to this particular case, why that was or was not done."
·      "I simply do not have a factual basis for answering that question."
·      "Again, Mr. Chairman, I don't know."
·      "I assume he was, but I don't know."
·      "I don't know what has happened in this matter."
·      “This is both an ongoing matter and an ongoing matter about which I know nothing.”
"The thing is, if we don't get to the bottom of this -- and that requires your assistance on that,” Sensenbrenner warned Holder on Fast and Furious, “there is only one alternative that Congress has and it is called impeachment.

The IRS scandal

The investigation of the IRS by the IRS determined that two low ranking “rogue” officials in the Cincinnati office were solely responsible for the persecution of Tea Party and other conservative linked groups.  

Even though there is a boatload of evidence pointing towards the involvement of IRS officials in Washington and elsewhere, because Holder won’t appoint a special counsel to get to the truth, no high ranking official will ever be held accountable. As for the low ranking bureaucrats who take the fall? As long as they keep quiet they will no doubt be quietly reassigned to different government jobs at a later date.

“Because Attorney General Holder has so egregiously violated the public trust, the president should ask for his immediate resignation,” he went on.

Priebus said that if Obama fails to right the wrong by eliminating Holder, the President heading “the most transparent Administration in history” will send a clear — if damning — message to Americans.

“If President Obama does not, the message will be unmistakable: The president of the United States believes his administration is above the Constitution and does not respect the role of a free press,” the RNC chief concluded.


The Fox News reporter (James Rosen) sandal
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/05/24/end-of-the-line-for-eric-holder/


THE SOLUTION
The best option to get to the bottom of all the many scandals is for Congress to take a page out of the Nixon playbook.  Like Obama, President Nixon wasn’t keen on having a special prosecutor poking around his affairs.  Following the linking of the Watergate burglars to White House officials, the U.S. Senate refused to confirm Nixon’s appointment of Elliot Richardson as Attorney General until he agreed to authorize a special prosecutor.  Nixon eventually caved to the Senate’s demand and the rest is history.

Step one should be to impeach Holder and put him in prison where he belongs, then the Senate should put an immediate hold on all further nominations by Obama until he agrees to appoint special counsels to investigate Fast and Furious and the IRS.  While it is unlikely that Democrats will support this measure, Republicans have more than enough votes to filibuster any future appointments by the White House.  Considering that several of the current scandals are of such a grievous nature not only to the victims, but to the rule of law, to do anything less would be a crime.

UPDATE...4 June 2013


Here is a list of some of the scandals Eric Holder has been a part of:

• His most recent scandal is from his department's highly controversial move to secretly obtain phone records of AP reporters and editors as part of a leak investigation. Of course he denies involvement just like all of his other scandals.
• Shortly thereafter, reports began to surface that the Justice Department, in addition to seizing telephone and email records of Associated Press reporters, had seized the emails and phone records of Fox News correspondent James Rosen
• The Obama Administration steered the IRS to hassle conservative groups and delay them (for up to 3 years!) from obtaining tax exempt status for their organizations.
• Holder's Department of Justice was involved in the Benghazi cover up that left 4 Americans dead. There was no effort to save them and the Administration misled the public for months while they were still campaigning for the recent Presidential election.
• Obstructed the investigation of operation 'Fast and Furious' which got Border Patrol Officer Brian Terry killed. He destroyed thousands of documents related to the operation. He said he found out about the operation in early 2011 when it was actually May of 2010.
• He was the first Attorney General to ever be held in Contempt of Court by the House of Representatives for sabotaging the 'Fast and Furious' investigation.
• Personally stopped states from implementing voter ID laws because he says they are racist.
• Had charges dropped against the Black Panthers who were arrested for intimidating voters with clubs and other weapons outside polling locations in 2008.