(CBS News) CBS News has learned the House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It’s the fourth time in 30 years that Congress has launched a contempt action against an executive branch member.
This time, the dispute stems from Holder failing to turn over documents subpoenaed on October 12, 2011 in the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” investigation.
The Justice Department has maintained it has cooperated fully with the congressional investigation, turning over tens of thousands of documents and having Holder testify to Congress on the topic at least eight times.
However, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says the Justice Department has refused to turn over tens of thousands of pages of documents. Those include materials created after Feb. 4, 2011, when the Justice Department wrote a letter to Congress saying no gunwalking had occurred. The Justice Department later retracted the denial.
“The Obama Administration has not asserted Executive Privilege or any other valid privilege over these materials and it is unacceptable that the Department of Justice refuses to produce them. These documents pertain to Operation Fast and Furious, the claims of whistleblowers, and why it took the Department nearly a year to retract false denials of reckless tactics,” Issa wrote in an announcement of the vote to be released shortly. It will reveal the vote is scheduled for Wednesday, June 20.
Read More at CBS News. By Sharyl Attkison.
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If this had been anybody else, they would have thrown that person in jail IMMEDIATELY!!!…BUT, because Holders black, he'll get odd scott free…mark my words…
What in the hell is taking so long to bring this AG to justice? For crying out loud, we can pass 0care "right now", before the darn thing is even written, but we can't get justice for a lying SOB who cares nothing for our country. These documents were subpoenaed in Sept, 2011. By my count, that's 9 months ago! I appreciate Issa bringing this to the forefront, but get off the wimp-seat and let's get cracking! And that goes for Boehner and Cantor, too.
even if they convict him – bo will just pardon him – bo needs all his czars to control the USA.