"Can't touch me."
And that would include the attorney general, Eric Holder, whose department has told Congress to stuff their contempt citation and not to bother going to court to force compliance with their subpoana for documents.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/29/after-holder-contempt-vote-republicans-eye-civil-court-case-to-extract-furious/
Kids, if you want to grow up to be someone who does not have to answer to the law-be an attorney general in charge of the Justice Department. It's the perfect crime.
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George Orwell wrote: "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Here, we see the contemptible Eric Holder and his minions scampering around to hold the DOJ together. The lie is a move to deny prosecution of Holder. But, like Humpty-Dumpty, the egg shell is shattered and all Holder's men will not be able to put the DOJ back together again. At least, under Obama's reign.
Let us hope that U.S. Representative, Daryl Issa, is able to maintain the momentum to seek truth in the face of Democrat deceit.
Squid
"For the last Republican attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey, it was his refusal to hand over Justice Department documents — including Vice President Dick Cheney’s F.B.I. interview about the leaking of the identity of a C.I.A. operative — that led to contempt threats from Democratic-led House committees.
"For his predecessor, Alberto R. Gonzales, it was a mass firing of federal prosecutors, and he resigned under pressure. For the attorney general before him, John Ashcroft, it was damaging questioning from the 9/11 Commission about allegations that he brushed off terrorism warnings in the summer of 2001.
"And for Janet Reno, who served as attorney general for all eight years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, it was her refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Democratic campaign fund-raising — prompting the Republican-led House oversight committee to recommend citing her with contempt."
Oh, I'm sorry, that CAN'T be true... it was published in the New York Times.
"George Terwilliger, who was Mr. Gonzales’s defense lawyer during the hearings over the prosecutor firings, said political pressure in the job “has increased exponentially in the last 20 years” and has distracted from the attorney general’s main mission of enforcing federal laws.
"As the No. 2 official at the Justice Department in the first Bush administration, Mr. Terwilliger dealt with a Congressional showdown of his own when his boss, Attorney General William P. Barr, refused demands from Democrats to appoint an outside counsel to investigate allegations that the administration had illegally aided Iraq before the first gulf war.
“There’s usually some kernel of substance to these controversies,” he said. “But at some point, they change from largely substantive to being largely political theater, and the reason the attorney general gets into trouble is that they don’t see it coming, and they’re no longer able to function when it reaches that point.”
None of these contempt citations has been enforced, because congress is not an enforcement agency. All they can do is ask the Justice Department to take action. Neither of the George Bush administration's did so, nor the Clinton administration... so it is par for the course. Above the law? That wasn't the law. That was a rabble venting their spleen... just like the Democrats.
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