{"id":14606,"date":"2012-06-12T14:35:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14606"},"modified":"2012-06-12T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T20:12:41","slug":"holders-widespread-stonewalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14606\/holders-widespread-stonewalling\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder&#8217;s Widespread Stonewalling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just on &#8220;Fast and Furious.&#8221; Eric Holder and his politicized Justice Department, along with the Obama administration overall, has consistently evaded the law and refused to provide documents on a number of controversial fronts, all while claiming privileges that don&#8217;t even exist. Peter Kirsanow details some of the ways in a great NRO post today,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/302549\/withholding-documents-pattern-and-practice-peter-kirsanow\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a> Please do follow that link; it&#8217;s important.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote on the broader topic of Obama stonewalling (at DoJ and elsewhere) at the Washington Times nearly three years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/oct\/28\/transparent-nonsense\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Others, too, have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/judicial-watch-victory-court-slaps-down-obama-administration-secrecy-rules-white-house-visitor-logs-subject-to-open-records-foia-127970258.html\" target=\"_blank\">chimed<\/a> in on<a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/blog\/bombshell-justice-department-only-selectively-complies-with-freedom-of-information-act-pjm-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\"> this topic<\/a>. It all adds up to a pattern of obstruction, prevarication, and lawlessness. That&#8217;s why U.S. Sen. John Cornyn today was moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-06-12\/attorney-general-holder-should-resign-says-u-dot-s-dot-senator-cornyn\" target=\"_blank\">demand Holder&#8217;s resignation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a call that surely will be echoed by others in Congress in days to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just on &#8220;Fast and Furious.&#8221; Eric Holder and his politicized Justice Department, along with the Obama administration overall, has consistently evaded the law and refused to provide documents on a number of controversial fronts, all while claiming privileges that don&#8217;t even exist. Peter Kirsanow details some of the ways in a great NRO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,2847,3616,3617],"class_list":["post-14606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-kirsanow","tag-stonewalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14609,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions\/14609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}