Jim Beaux wrote:2. Violating the law is illegal regardless of the reason. I could cite many examples of those who "took the fall for their boss" and committed crimes, but the first that came to mind are H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
I could cite examples of people carrying guns and committing crimes. That doesn't mean carrying a gun is illegal.
victory wrote:Maybe he is taking the heat for BHO. Isn't that one of his main responsibilities?
Doesnt really matter. He is breaking the law no matter the motivation.
Since when is someone taking the fall for their boss illegal? He has allegedly done a lot of things that were illegal, and a lot more that were unconstitutional, but this doesn't look like one of them.
1. Taking the heat for the president is not a responsibility of the attorney general. Abiding by & executing the law are. The AG is the top law enforcement officer & attorney for the US.
2. Violating the law is illegal regardless of the reason. I could cite many examples of those who "took the fall for their boss" and committed crimes, but the first that came to mind are H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
Jaguar wrote:He seems to be hoping no one will criticize him for failing to do something that was out of his scope – is it a phony answer to the question. Like asking a cop what his largest failure was in his career and being told, "I never got the speed limit lowered on Main Street." What?
Allow me to list some of his failures for him, and he can choose his greatest.
1. Fast and Furious
2. IRS targeting conservative groups
3. HSBC money laundering
4. America, "nation of cowards"
5. NSA allowed to intercept innocent citizen’s communications
6. Prosecuting terrorist in open court
7. Lying in testimony to Congress
8. Contempt of Congress
9. Non-prosecution of Black Panthers
10. Press prosecution (AP, and Fox)
Go ahead Mr. Holder, pick a real failure and not some phony-baloney issue outside the scope of your duties.
Good post.
Though to clarify the black panther case - the DOJ had won the case (due to a default judgement) and was ready for sentencing when holder took office. It was over with, a done deal - but then holder blatantly dropped the case & effectively "pardoned" the criminals - who ironically prophesied to Bull Bartle at the poll,"You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!".
Though Holder is quick to conduct a witch hunt on vague & speculative civil rights violations in Ferguson, he arrogantly abused his authority & released the black panthers. These thug were recorded by national media & identified by prominent liberal witnesses such as Bartle Bull who describe it as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” ever seen. Note that Bartle Bull is an expert on voter intimidation as he worked to gain voter's rights for blacks in Mississippi in the '60's.
Bartle Bull is a screaming liberal. Other than his involvement with RFK, he was also carter's campaign manager and worked on behalf of ted kennedy as well.
Former civil rights attorney and campaign aide to the late Robert F. Kennedy, Bartle Bull, observed the Panthers’ antics and described them as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” he had ever seen. Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits intimidation, coercion and threats to voters or those aiding voters, so the Bush Justice Department filed a civil-rights lawsuit against Jackson and Shabazz and against the New Black Panther Party and its national chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz.
However, in 2009 the Obama administration inherited that lawsuit and when the defendants failed to answer the lawsuit, a federal court in Philadelphia entered a default judgment against them. The Holder Justice Department responded by abruptly dropping the charges against the Panthers and two of the defendants. The third defendant was simply barred from displaying a weapon near a Philadelphia polling place for the next three years.
This video is chilling. There was and still is an unknown quantity of voter corruption waiting to be unleashed yet again in upcoming elections. Acorn has only changed its name.
Bartle Bull accuses the Obama Administration of corruption in handling the Philadelphia Black Panthers charges of Voter Intimidation in the November 2008 case that was dismissed by Steve Rosenbaum & Loretta King, both political appointees working in the Obama Administration. A lifelong Democrat, and having worked in the Carter Administration, he says he supported McCain because he believes Obama is a "hustler."
Though he is out, congress should censure this presumptuous clown with a proclamation that the office of the AG is one of enforcement, not implementation of law.
Attorney General Eric Holder said that his biggest failure during his time as head of the Justice Department was failing to pass expanded gun control laws