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Holder And Rep. Gohmert Get In Confrontation
Published on Apr 9, 2014 by 'PigMine5'
Published on Apr 9, 2014 by 'PigMine5'
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Pathetic: Holder plays the race card before Al Sharpton's group
American Thinker
Thomas Lifson
4/10/2014
Excerpt:
Signs are that Eric Holder is getting desperate, wrapping himself in the robes of victimhood the day following his “don’t go there, buddy” confrontation with Rep. Louis Gohmert over his contempt citation. But the choice of venue raises questions, to say the least. The National Action Network to which he spoke is Al Sharpton’s organization, and Sharpton has just been revealed to be a mob informant, moreover one who is still lying about his role. Standing next to underworld figure Sharpton, Holder said”
"I have been proud to stand along side of you in supporting efforts to advance the cause of justice that has always been at the center of this , this administrations work I am pleased to note that the last five years have been defined by significant strides and lasting reforms, even in the face, even in the face, of unprecedented, unwarranted ugly adversity. And if you don't believe that, you look at the way ...forget about me... forget about me , you look at the way the Attorney General of the Untied States was treated yesterday by a House committee. Had nothing to do with me what Attorney General has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What President has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?"
This is absurd whining. The incident to which Holder refers reflects his own outrageous behavior. Having been cited for contempt by Congress, Holder took umbrage over Gohmert’s remark that he doesn’t seem to care:
After Holder dismissed Gohmert’s requests for documents relating to congressional investigations, Gohmert said, “I realize that contempt is not a big deal to our Attorney General, but it is important that we have proper oversight.”
“You don’t want to go there buddy!” Holder responded. “You don’t want to go there, OK?”
“You should not assume that uh that is not a big deal to me,” Holder continued. “I think it was inappropriate, I think it was unjust, but never think that it was not a big deal to me. Don’t ever think that.”
Gohmert insisted that Republicans were focused on getting to the bottom of the Fast and Furious gun running scandal.
“I don’t need lectures from you about contempt,” Gohmert fired back.
“And I don’t need lectures from you either,” Holder responded.
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Eric Holder’s Race-Baiting Attack on Congress
FrontPage Mag
Joseph Klein
4/11/2014
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Eric HolderU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder played the race card in front a friendly audience at the annual convention of Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, held in New York on April 9th. He complained that members of Congress seeking to hold him accountable for his gross dereliction of duty were engaging in “unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive” attacks on him and the Obama administration. He delivered this poppycock a day after he sparred with Republican congressmen over his truth-challenged behavior.
“The last five years have been defined by significant strides and by lasting reforms even in the face, even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity,” Holder said. “If you don’t believe that, you look at the way — forget about me, forget about me. You look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee — has nothing to do with me, forget that. What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?”
Holder has only himself and the president whom he serves to blame. Their stonewalling makes Richard Nixon look like an amateur.
Holder wears a chip on his shoulder, using the excuse of race that he thinks entitles him and his boss to be insulated from any accountability. Indeed, Holder set his race-baiting tone very early in President Obama’s first term when he accused the American people of being “essentially a nation of cowards” in dealing with the race issue – just three months after the American people elected the nation’s first black president.
In 2011, during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the voting rights case involving members of the New Black Panther Party who had intimidated voters at a polling location in Philadelphia, Holder justified the decision not to pursue their prosecution in racially charged terms: “When you compare what people endured in the South in the ‘60s to try to get the right to vote for African-Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia … to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people,” Holder said. (Emphasis added.) Silly us for thinking that Holder was supposed to serve all of the American people as their Attorney General.
Holder has stonewalled any inquiries into what led to this decision, including refusing to address allegations that his Deputy Assistant Attorney General had instructed her subordinates to focus their civil rights investigations on black victims while ignoring white victims of racist acts.
Holder’s pattern of stonewalling has extended beyond just race-related cases. Operation Fast and Furious, the botched Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation which had put guns into the hands of members of drug cartels in Mexico, is a case in point. It was conducted in the hope that the ultimate destination of the guns could be traced. Instead, the guns were turned loose, resulting in the death of at least one U.S. federal agent, Brian Terry.
Holder first denied in 2011 that he or other senior staffers at the Justice Department had any prior knowledge of the operation. However, when evidence began to surface that he had in fact received memos about the operation as early as 2010, Holder began his evasive tactics that impeded a full-scale congressional investigation as to what exactly happened and at what levels of authority the operation had been sanctioned.
Holder was cited for contempt of Congress in 2012 for failing to turn over subpoenaed Justice Department internal emails relevant to a possible cover up of its knowledge of the Fast and Furious operation. Nearly two years later, he still nurses bitterness on how he was treated. During a testy exchange with Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) at a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on April 8th, after Gohmert alluded to Holder’s seeming dismissal of the significance of a contempt citation as his Justice Department continues to hinder congressional investigations, Holder angrily protested.
“You don’t want to go there, buddy,” Holder said with contempt of his own directed at a sitting congressman fulfilling Congress’s responsibility for legislative oversight of the Executive Branch. “You don’t want to go there, OK? You should not assume that that is not a big deal to me. I think it was inappropriate. I think it was unjust. But never think that was not a big deal to me. Don’t ever think that.”
Gohmert reminded Holder that his Justice Department “has still not been forthcoming in producing the documents that were the subject of the contempt.” Holder could not hold back his derision, sarcastically referring to a trivial gaffe that Gohmert had made at a hearing nearly a year ago rather than deal with the substance of his own continued failure to come clean about what he and his senior staff knew and when they knew it about the Fast and Furious operation and other matters.
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Megyn Kelly Asks Gohmert If Holder Played the ‘Race Card’ Against Him
Mediaite
Josh Feldman
4/10/2014
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Congressman Louie Gohmert got in a contentious back-and-forth with Attorney General Eric Holder this week, and responded on Fox News Thursday night to Holder heavily implying he’s treated worse than his predecessors because of his race.
Gohmert insisted with Holder, his intentions have always been about getting the facts from the Attorney General’s office in the face of stonewalling. He said Holder “does not have evidence” to back up his claim, sarcastically musing, “Maybe he was too busy helping Marc Rich get a pardon.” Gohmert told Megyn Kelly that Alberto Gonzalez was “brutalized” by Congress, and other AGs including John Ashcroft and Edwin Meese got it much harder than Holder ever did.
Kelly asked Gohmert if Holder was playing the race card. Gohmert noted that Holder specifically “didn’t say race,” but said “I couldn’t care less,” staying on his goal to demand documents from the Attorney General’s office no matter how many times he has to keep applying pressure.
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