Five Things To Know About The Republican Witchhunt Against Attorney General Holder

[warrior1]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/13/498521/five-things-to-know-about-the-house-oversight-chairs-witchhunt-against-attorney-general-holder/

1. Issa Has No Case: Issa’s uncovered no evidence showing Holder bears any blame for the botched operations begun under George W. Bush, even though the Justice Department turned over thousands of pages of documents concerning the operations. Instead of accepting this fact, Issa has requested many more documents containing confidential information regarding ongoing law enforcement investigations, and is now threatening to hold Holder in contempt if these documents are not turned over. Holder is entirely correct to withhold these documents, however, because Justice Department documents are not subject to congressional subpoena if they would reveal “strategies and procedures that could be used by individuals seeking to evade [DOJ's] law enforcement efforts.”

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5. Issa Is Fixated On A Conspiracy Theory: Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of this affair is what Issa once suggested his investigation will uncover. In an interview with Sean Hannity, Issa claimed that the Obama administration “made a crisis” when they continued the Bush-era gunrunning operations because they wanted to “us[e] this crisis to somehow take away or limit people’s Second Amendment rights.” This accusation originates from a former militiaman who supports violent resistance to imagined government attempts to seize his guns. And it amounts to an accusation that a series of botched gun stings that begun during the Bush Administration were actually part of a secret Obama plot to release guns to Mexican drug lords, so that those guns could then be used to kill federal agents, which would then cause a national uprising in support of gun control.

http://www.americablog.com/2012/06/nra-scored-holder-contempt-vote-proving.html

The NRA doesn't score issues that it doesn't consider dealing with gun control. And we know that the real motivation behind the GOP investigation of this issue has been some crazy conspiracy that this is all part of an Obama plot to take away our guns. So it's no surprise that the NRA is treating this issue as a key vote for them.

So kids, remember: The NRA is behind everything that happened today.

[femmocrat]

1. K&R

Rev. Al did a great job tonight of pointing out the hypocrisy and political machinations that are behind this.

[brentspeak]

2. I think we all agree that Issa and the GOP, the NRA, AND Holder are all slimeballs n/t

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

3. Calling it a "witchhunt" is disengenious...

In the salem witch trials, there were no actual "witches". There were no bewitched or afflicted victims.

In this case under this administration there WAS a government program funnelling guns to drug cartels, international laws WERE broken, and US/Mexican people ARE dead.

BIG difference between the Fast and Furious investigatin and a "witchhunt".