HOLDER: Serial liar

Remember the “voter intimidation” thing by the New Black Panther Party?

This is not the first time Holder has “misled” Congress. Documents obtained in 2012 by Judicial Watch, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, revealed that top political appointees at the DOJ were intimately involved in the decision to drop the voter intimidation lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP). That information conflicts with Holder’s testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies on March 1, 2011. “The decisions made in the New Black Panther Party case were made by career attorneys in the department. And beyond that, you know, if we’re going to look at the record, let’s look at it in its totality,” Holder contended.

The DOJ had initially refused to turn over the documents, contending they didn’t show “any political interference whatsoever.” Judge Reggie B. Walton in Washington, D.C. District Court disagreed. Allowing the release of the documents on July 23, 2012, he declared that they “reveal that political appointees within DOJ were conferring about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the days preceding the DOJ’s dismissal of claims in that case[.]”

Sworn testimony given by Holder during the Fast and Furious gun running scandal was even more suspect. On May 3, 2011, he told a Judiciary Committee he had only recently learned about the operation. “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,” he told Committee Chairman Darryl Issa (R-CA). Yet internal DOJ documents obtained by CBS News the following October revealed that Holder had been sent briefings on the operation as early as 2010. For that statement, as well as his stonewalling of the investigation—aided and abetted by an executive order issued by President Obama preventing critical documents from being released—Holder earned a contempt of Congress citation in June 2012.

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.