{"id":16014,"date":"2012-10-01T17:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16014"},"modified":"2012-10-01T17:35:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T21:35:03","slug":"romney-and-ryan-say-holder-should-resign-or-be-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16014\/romney-and-ryan-say-holder-should-resign-or-be-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney and Ryan Say Holder Should Resign or Be Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Caller<\/a> reports that \u201cRepublican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agrees with presidential candidate Mitt Romney\u2019s call for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, or for President Barack Obama to fire him, over Operation Fast and Furious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan is now the 131st<\/sup> member of Congress to say Holder should resign or be fired.<\/p>\n

This is about more than politics.<\/p>\n

Now that Univision<\/a> has uncovered evidence that a massacre of 14 teenagers in Ciudad Juarez was perpetrated with Fast and Furious guns, and identified \u201c57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre,\u201d it is now impossible to let Holder escape responsibility for a program he claims he knew nothing about.<\/p>\n

Even though the Department of Justice\u2019s non-partisan Inspector General could find no direct evidence of Holder\u2019s knowledge, the same IG told congressional investigators that \u201cwe struggle to understand how an operation of this size, of this importance, that impacted another country like it did, could not have been briefed up to the attorney general of the United states.\u00a0 It should have been, in our view.\u00a0 It was that kind of a case.”<\/p>\n

And let’s not forget that Holder’s Contempt of Congress<\/a> citation was directly linked to the White House’s dubious extension of executive privilege<\/a> to cover a cabinet member.<\/p>\n

So, either Eric Holder is being shielded from culpability because of the White House\u2019s refusal to provide the relevant documents, or the U.S. Attorney General didn\u2019t know about a major program that could, and did, jeopardize America\u2019s relationship with Mexico.<\/p>\n

Either way, Romney and Ryan would do voters a service by highlighting this colossal failure of leadership by key people in the Obama Administration.\u00a0 If Holder\u2019s job is safe, and the President is reelected, no one should be surprised if we get more of the same for the next four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily Caller reports that \u201cRepublican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agrees with presidential candidate Mitt Romney\u2019s call for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, or for President Barack Obama to fire him, over Operation Fast and Furious.\u201d Ryan is now the 131st member of Congress to say Holder should resign or be fired. This […]<\/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":[84,3641,498,2847,3160,160,802],"class_list":["post-16014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-contempt","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-gun","tag-mitt-romney","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014","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=16014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16018,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions\/16018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}