{"id":16434,"date":"2012-11-08T15:47:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16434"},"modified":"2012-11-08T15:47:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:47:48","slug":"holder-sounds-like-he%e2%80%99s-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16434\/holder-sounds-like-he%e2%80%99s-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder Sounds Like He\u2019s Leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"Holder Sounds Like He\u2019s Leaving \" target=\"_blank\">Sounds like<\/a> the Contempt of Congress citation and ongoing Fast and Furious litigation is getting to the Attorney General:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThat\u2019s something that I\u2019m in the process now of trying to determine,\u201d Holder said. \u201cI have to think about, can I contribute in a second term?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I have to] really ask myself the question about, do I think there are things that I still want to do? Do I have gas left in the tank? It\u2019s been an interesting and tough four years, so I really just don\u2019t know,\u201d Holder told [a group of law] students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Alberto Gonzalez can be hounded into resigning for firing federal prosecutors who work for him, then Eric Holder can be shown the door for hiding his role in a gun-walking program that killed dozens of Mexicans and at least one American Border Patrol agent.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming Holder leaves, the next question is whether Obama can find his version of Michael Mukasey to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>If so, it would be one of a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1647-obama-should-accept-boehners-offer-to-deal\" target=\"_blank\">series of smart moves<\/a> the President could do to get his second term off to a bipartisan start.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: CBS News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like the Contempt of Congress citation and ongoing Fast and Furious litigation is getting to the Attorney General: \u201cThat\u2019s something that I\u2019m in the process now of trying to determine,\u201d Holder said. \u201cI have to think about, can I contribute in a second term?\u201d &#8230; \u201c[I have to] really ask myself the question about, [&hellip;]<\/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":[84,3641,498,2847,3160,1823],"class_list":["post-16434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-contempt","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-gun","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434","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=16434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16439,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions\/16439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}