{"id":12344,"date":"2011-12-09T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12344"},"modified":"2011-12-09T16:58:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T21:58:55","slug":"holder-gets-grilled-at-house-hearing-impeachment-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12344\/holder-gets-grilled-at-house-hearing-impeachment-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder Gets Grilled at House Hearing; Impeachment Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The seriousness of Eric Holder\u2019s failings as U.S. Attorney General came to a well-deserved head yesterday during tough questioning before the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee.\u00a0 Though Quin has spotlighted several other kinds of abuses worthy of investigation by Congress, the Judiciary Committee\u2019s focus was on the growing number of lies and distortions given by Holder\u2019s Justice Department to congressional investigators about the Fast and Furious operation that let over 2,000 guns intentionally \u201cwalk\u201d into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.<\/p>\n

Under withering questions from Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R- WI) about what it means to lie to Congress, Holder tried to dodge:<\/p>\n

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Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) drew Holder\u2019s attention to internal emails showing anti-gun rights bureaucrats and political appointees speculating about using the failure of Fast and Furious fiasco as an after-the-fact reason to extend gun control regulations:<\/p>\n

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Most disturbingly, Holder acknowledged that no one in the Justice Department knows how many guns are actually out there, but that the repercussions will be felt \u201cfor years\u201d<\/a> in both the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n

For all his failures as Attorney General, the Fast and Furious scandal should be the one that brings Eric Holder\u2019s tenure to an abrupt end.\u00a0 President Barack Obama should clean house at the Justice Department over the Christmas break by firing Holder and those lieutenants involved in the serial lying to Congress.\u00a0 If not, House Republicans should explore impeachment proceedings against Holder.<\/p>\n

As I said in my column this week<\/a>, Holder’s statements and actions amount to perjury and obstruction of justice.\u00a0 In his misleading testimony before Congress and in numerous refusals to share information that when shared was later acknowledged to be false, Holder has proven his reputation and career are too intertwined with Fast and Furious to make him an unbiased administrator searching for the truth. Most importantly, he’s proven he won’t tell the truth when asked under oath. If an everyday American must face consequences for perjury and obstruction of justice, so too should the Attorney General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The seriousness of Eric Holder\u2019s failings as U.S. Attorney General came to a well-deserved head yesterday during tough questioning before the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee.\u00a0 Though Quin has spotlighted several other kinds of abuses worthy of investigation by Congress, the Judiciary Committee\u2019s focus was on the growing number of lies and distortions given by Holder\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1453,498,2847,3160],"class_list":["post-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12363,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}