{"id":18131,"date":"2013-06-06T13:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18131"},"modified":"2013-06-06T13:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:44:24","slug":"house-gop%e2%80%99s-move-after-holder-misses-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18131\/house-gop%e2%80%99s-move-after-holder-misses-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP\u2019s Move after Holder Misses Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers know we\u2019ve taken an interest in Eric Holder\u2019s, at best, misleading testimony to Congress about his role in the James Rosen search warrant because, most likely, it\u2019s the clearest evidence yet that <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1861-congress-has-the-right-perhaps-the-duty-to-impeach-eric-holder \" target=\"_blank\">the Attorney General should be removed from office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But to find out whether Holder perjured himself, Congress needs to know all the facts. That means getting Holder to clarify his conflicting statements about whether he intended to prosecute Rosen as a criminal, or just allege the accusation as a smokescreen to get <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1865-in-media-probe-holder-violated-doj-rules- \" target=\"_blank\">unprecedented \u2013 and unlawful \u2013 access<\/a> to the Fox News reporter\u2019s personal communications.<\/p>\n<p>Holder made his misleading statement under oath on May 15. The Judiciary Committee gave him until the close of business yesterday (June 5) to clarify. With that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/06\/05\/holder-faces-close-business-deadline-to-clear-up-testimony-on-reporter\/?test=latestnews \" target=\"_blank\">deadline now passed<\/a>, it\u2019s up to House Republicans to make the next move. For the sake of the truth, it better be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers know we\u2019ve taken an interest in Eric Holder\u2019s, at best, misleading testimony to Congress about his role in the James Rosen search warrant because, most likely, it\u2019s the clearest evidence yet that the Attorney General should be removed from office. But to find out whether Holder perjured himself, Congress needs to know all the [&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":[84,498,3949,4167,4158,1823,1784,845],"class_list":["post-18131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-eric-holder","tag-house","tag-impeach","tag-james-rosen","tag-justice","tag-republican","tag-search-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18131","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=18131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18137,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18131\/revisions\/18137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}