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2012-06-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Justice Department shields Holder from prosecution after contempt vote

[Fox News]

The Justice Department moved Friday to shield Attorney General Eric Stonewall Holder from prosecution after the House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress.

The contempt vote technically opened the door for the House to call on the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to bring the case before a grand jury. But because U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen works for Holder and because President B.O. has already asserted executive privilege over the documents in question, some expected Holder's Justice Department to balk.

Deputy Attorney General James Cole confirmed in a letter to House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner
... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans...
that the department in fact would not pursue prosecution. The attorney general's withholding of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, he wrote, "does not constitute a crime."

"Therefore the department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the attorney general," Cole wrote, in the letter obtained by Fox News.

A department official told Fox News the letter was "pro forma" -- or a formality -- considering that ex-Attorney General Michael Mukasey in 2008 also refused to refer two Bush White House aides to a grand jury after they were held in contempt.

Republicans nevertheless blasted the Justice Department for the move. Frederick Hill, front man for House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, said "it is regrettable that the politicianship of the Justice Department is trying to intervene in an effort to prevent the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia from making an independent decision about whether to prosecute this case."

Posted by Fred 2012-06-30 13:19|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 The DOJ is now a security apparatus for the choom gang, not the United States of America.

Posted by Lemuel Glinemble7700 2012-06-30 16:23|| 2012-06-30 16:23|| Front Page Top

#2 This is contempt of Congress by the entire department. Congress has an obligation and duty to formalize that charge. Do it.

Posted by Mad Eye Thomble2713 2012-06-30 16:43|| 2012-06-30 16:43|| Front Page Top

#3 and make Obama answer whether he'll pardon Holder when Obama and his corrupt cult's voted out. Every news conference. Every debate. Every time. Let the DOJ and BATFE higher-ups know there's gonna be hell to pay for malfeasance.

Posted by Frank G 2012-06-30 18:08|| 2012-06-30 18:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Being held in contempt of congress may prevent him from a future Supreme Court position. Then again, it may not.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-06-30 20:06|| 2012-06-30 20:06|| Front Page Top

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