{"id":14734,"date":"2012-06-20T17:31:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14734"},"modified":"2012-06-20T17:31:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T21:31:23","slug":"house-gop-votes-ag-holder-in-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14734\/house-gop-votes-ag-holder-in-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Votes AG Holder in Contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an update to my previous post<\/a>, here\u2019s the latest from The Hill<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A House panel voted Wednesday to place Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena, defying an assertion of executive privilege from President Obama.<\/p>\n

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Republican Chairman Darrell Issa (Calif.), approved a resolution along party lines to place Holder in contempt after battling him for months over access to internal agency documents about the gun-tracking operation Fast and Furious.<\/p>\n

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All 23 Republicans on the committee voted for the contempt resolution, while all 17 Democrats voted against it. Every member of the panel was present for the vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are still many off-ramps on the road towards Eric Holder being perp walked into federal prison for being found guilty of contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n

Next week the full House will vote on the Oversight Committee\u2019s contempt citation.\u00a0 If it passes, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia will convene a grand jury to decide on an indictment.\u00a0 If that is successful, then Holder would have to be found guilty by another jury.\u00a0 Only then would he be eligible to serve the one-year sentence for refusing to comply with Issa\u2019s repeated requests for documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal.<\/p>\n

The process is lengthy, and anyway is beside the point.\u00a0 The reason Issa and the Republicans are pushing the contempt process forward isn\u2019t to see the U.S. Attorney General go to prison.\u00a0 It\u2019s to apply the necessary pressure on a recalcitrant Obama administration to release information about one of the dumbest and most tragic federal misadventures in recent memory.<\/p>\n

Hiding behind eleventh hour claims of executive privilege won\u2019t make that task any easier.\u00a0 If Holder and President Barack Obama want to avoid letting Fast and Furious become this administration\u2019s Iran Contra, Holder better personally deliver assurances to Issa that he\u2019s ready to fully cooperate.<\/p>\n

And if he can\u2019t because there\u2019s damning information about a DOJ-White House cover-up, get ready for a Watergate role reversal with Republicans in Congress making a Democratic president\u2019s life miserable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an update to my previous post, here\u2019s the latest from The Hill: A House panel voted Wednesday to place Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena, defying an assertion of executive privilege from President Obama. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Republican […]<\/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":[143,84,3641,150,498,1287,2847,2645,44],"class_list":["post-14734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-contempt","tag-darrell-issa","tag-eric-holder","tag-executive-privilege","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-guns","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734","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=14734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14738,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734\/revisions\/14738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}