Breaking: Holder to be investigated for Perjury

[tinydancer]

Life is getting really hot inside the Beltway.

I'm trying to get a link to the Hill. Here we go.


House Judiciary investigating whether Holder lied under oath
By Jonathan Easley - 05/28/13 12:03 PM ET
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The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 testimony on the Justice Department’s (DOJ) surveillance of reporters, an aide close to the matter told The Hill.

The panel is looking at a statement Holder made during a back and forth with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) about whether the DOJ could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act of 1917.




House Judiciary investigating whether Holder lied under oath - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

 

[Mr. H.]

Never a dull moment with these clowns...

 

[Uncensored2008]

Most corrupt administration in American history.

 

[boedicca]

Never a dull moment with these clowns...

Too bad they are far from funny....

 

[ScienceRocks]

Well, you can't lie under oath....

 

[Sallow]

Good luck with that.

Rove rules in Congress.

All da way!

 

[iamwhatiseem]

He will not be prosecuted. He will claim the "I didn't remember....clause" As well as he can say.."I was referring to actual prosecutions, which there were none.
I am astounded by Obama still propping up this guy. Amazing.

 

[PredFan]

No problem, they'll put Eric Holder in charge of the investigation.

 

[Sallow]

He will not be prosecuted. He will claim the "I didn't remember....clause" As well as he can say.."I was referring to actual prosecutions, which there were none.
I am astounded by Obama still propping up this guy. Amazing.

In addition to performing his normal duties, he's had to make over 10 trips to check in on frivolous "investigations".

I am surprised they aren't going "go fuck yourselves" at this point.

The Bush administration tolerated a lot less before they did that.

 

[Yurt]

He will not be prosecuted. He will claim the "I didn't remember....clause" As well as he can say.."I was referring to actual prosecutions, which there were none.
I am astounded by Obama still propping up this guy. Amazing.

In addition to performing his normal duties, he's had to make over 10 trips to check in on frivolous "investigations".

I am surprised they aren't going "go fuck yourselves" at this point.

The Bush administration tolerated a lot less before they did that.

cite

 

[iamwhatiseem]

He will not be prosecuted. He will claim the "I didn't remember....clause" As well as he can say.."I was referring to actual prosecutions, which there were none.
I am astounded by Obama still propping up this guy. Amazing.

In addition to performing his normal duties, he's had to make over 10 trips to check in on frivolous "investigations".

I am surprised they aren't going "go fuck yourselves" at this point.

The Bush administration tolerated a lot less before they did that.

Are you referring to the investigations the Obama administration has called on his own people?

 

[Rocko]

I haven't followed this at all, but I would be shocked if the AG perjured himself, I mean there's no way he could be that stupid.

 

[Missourian]

“In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material – this is not something I’ve ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy,” Holder said during the hearing.​

 

[Rocko]

Having said that, I hope he did, and I hope he goes to jail.

 

[PredFan]

I haven't followed this at all, but I would be shocked if the AG perjured himself, I mean there's no way he could be that stupid.

It wouldn't really be stupid of him. Odds are that every stinking cesspool dweller from obama on down will walk off scott free.

The only way anything would happen is if the media wants it to happen and they don't so Holder can lie all he wants to.

 

[Sallow]

He will not be prosecuted. He will claim the "I didn't remember....clause" As well as he can say.."I was referring to actual prosecutions, which there were none.
I am astounded by Obama still propping up this guy. Amazing.

In addition to performing his normal duties, he's had to make over 10 trips to check in on frivolous "investigations".

I am surprised they aren't going "go fuck yourselves" at this point.

The Bush administration tolerated a lot less before they did that.

cite

George W. Bush administration

The Bush administration invoked executive privilege on six occasions.

President George W. Bush first asserted executive privilege to deny disclosure of sought details regarding former Attorney General Janet Reno,[2] the scandal involving Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) misuse of organized-crime informants James J. Bulger and Stephen Flemmi in Boston, and Justice Department deliberations about President Bill Clinton's fundraising tactics, in December 2001.[8]

Bush invoked executive privilege "in substance" in refusing to disclose the details of Vice President Dick Cheney's meetings with energy executives, which was not appealed by the GAO. In a separate Supreme Court decision in 2004, however, Justice Anthony Kennedy noted "Executive privilege is an extraordinary assertion of power 'not to be lightly invoked.' United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1, 7 (1953).

"Once executive privilege is asserted, coequal branches of the Government are set on a collision course. The Judiciary is forced into the difficult task of balancing the need for information in a judicial proceeding and the Executive’s Article II prerogatives. This inquiry places courts in the awkward position of evaluating the Executive’s claims of confidentiality and autonomy, and pushes to the fore difficult questions of separation of powers and checks and balances. These 'occasion for constitutional confrontation between the two branches' are likely to be avoided whenever possible. United States v. Nixon, supra, at 692."[9]

Further, on June 28, 2007, Bush invoked executive privilege in response to congressional subpoenas requesting documents from former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor,[10] citing that:

The reason for these distinctions rests upon a bedrock presidential prerogative: for the President to perform his constitutional duties, it is imperative that he receive candid and unfettered advice and that free and open discussions and deliberations occur among his advisors and between those advisors and others within and outside the Executive Branch.

On July 9, 2007, Bush again invoked executive privilege to block a congressional subpoena requiring the testimonies of Taylor and Miers. Furthermore, White House Counsel Fred F. Fielding refused to comply with a deadline set by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain its privilege claim, prove that the president personally invoked it, and provide logs of which documents were being withheld. On July 25, 2007, the House Judiciary Committee voted to cite Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten for contempt of Congress.[11][12]

On July 13, less than a week after claiming executive privilege for Miers and Taylor, Counsel Fielding effectively claimed the privilege once again, this time in relation to documents related to the 2004 death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman. In a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Fielding claimed certain papers relating to discussion of the friendly-fire shooting “implicate Executive Branch confidentiality interests” and would therefore not be turned over to the committee.[13]

On August 1, 2007, Bush invoked the privilege for the fourth time in little over a month, this time rejecting a subpoena for Karl Rove. The subpoena would have required the President's Senior Advisor to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a probe over fired federal prosecutors. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, Fielding claimed that "Mr. Rove, as an immediate presidential advisor, is immune from compelled congressional testimony about matters that arose during his tenure and that relate to his official duties in that capacity...."[14]

Leahy claimed that President Bush was not involved with the employment terminations of U.S. attorneys. Furthermore, he asserted that the president's executive privilege claims protecting Josh Bolten, and Karl Rove are illegal. The Senator demanded that Bolten, Rove, Sara Taylor, and J. Scott Jennings comply "immediately" with their subpoenas, presumably to await a further review of these matters. This development paved the way for a Senate panel vote on whether to advance the citations to the full Senate. "It is obvious that the reasons given for these firings were contrived as part of a cover up and that the stonewalling by the White House is part and parcel of that same effort", Leahy concluded about these incidents.[15][16][17][18]

As of July 17, 2008, Rove is still claiming executive privilege to avoid a congressional subpoena. Rove's lawyer writes that his client is "constitutionally immune from compelled congressional testimony."[19]
Executive privilege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[konradv]

He will not be prosecuted. He will claim the "I didn't remember....clause" As well as he can say.."I was referring to actual prosecutions, which there were none.
I am astounded by Obama still propping up this guy. Amazing.

If you admit there were no prosecutions, then why would he have to worry and what would he have to 'not remember'? Why shouldn't Obama back him up, if the reasoning is that flimsy? I think the right has a persecution complex and a bad case of myopia. They howled every time Bush was accused of similar actions.

 

[BlindBoo]

I'll be damned, another House Investigation?

113th Congress. Most investigations with fewest convictions, ever. Has to be a record.

Like Dust in the Wind


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[tinydancer]

He will not be prosecuted. He will claim the "I didn't remember....clause" As well as he can say.."I was referring to actual prosecutions, which there were none.
I am astounded by Obama still propping up this guy. Amazing.

It's getting dicey for Obama over Holder. IMHO that bus is coming down the road for the AG.

I just saw a headline that read " Axelrod: DOJ’s Fox probe ‘disturbing’".

 

[Sallow]

I'll be damned, another House Investigation?

113th Congress. Most investigations with fewest convictions, ever. Has to be a record.

Like Dust in the Wind


Kansas - Dust In The Wind - YouTube

They definitely are a busy lot.

Numerous Investigations (They are in record breaking territory I think) and not much passed in terms of legislation (Again in record territory). But they have tried to repeal ObamaCare, what, 39 times?

How fucking patriotic. All this with a war going on..