Op-ed:

Guilty as charged! 

By: Diane Sori

Attorney General Eric Holder has the oh so special distinction of being the first sitting Attorney General in US history to not only be brought up on contempt of Congress charges but also to be found guilty of those charges.

On Thursday, while we were all focused on the ObamaCare ruling another happening of a very unique nature occurred not far from the Supreme Court building...the House voted to find Eric Holder in both criminal and civil contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over subpoenaed documents critical to the Fast and Furious investigation.

  

Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called for that vote on the grounds that Holder refused time and again to turn over documents that could have explained why the Obama administration took 10 long months to admit that gun-walking had occurred.

And why did Holder refuse to turn those documents over...that’s quite simple...they most likely showed his and Obama’s involvement in the operation and as such have long since been destroyed.  You can’t turn over documents that no longer exist can you.

However and so true to form, even with Congress’s findings, the DOJ claimed Holder's withholding of those documents did not a crime make, and as such they refuse to prosecute him for contempt of Congress even though he was found guilty as charged.  And why...because Obama put a blanket of Executive Privilege over Holder.

Come on guys, did you even for a moment think they would...I sure didn’t.

And to make it even more of a dog and pony show, Eric Holder, the ever defiant arrogant bastard that he is, claimed the verdict and the charges themselves were nothing but a “politically motivated investigation during an election year."

To that I say bull!  These charges were brought not just because the gun-walking operation went sour but primarily because one of our own, Border Agent Brian Terry, was murdered by one of the very guns that Holder was supposed to have been tracking. 

Also, what Holder just doesn’t want to understand and accept is that to be politically motivated means a partisan vote, yet 17 of his very own liberal Democrat buddies crossed the aisle and voted with the Republicans. In a vote of 255-67 Holder was found in criminal contempt, and then in a vote of 258-95 Holder was found in in civil contempt.

  

And now, coming out of the blue and hitting Holder smack in the face is a document just read into the Congressional Record that appears to go against Holder’s claim that he and Obama knew little or nothing about Fast and Furious.

The document concerns a secret wiretap application with details about Fast and Furious, including words that would have tipped off anyone who read them about what tactics were being used and who used them. 

Can you say Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder.

And to make it worse is that the wiretap application is signed by senior DOJ criminal division officials Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco and a few others.

With this new information on top of the contempt vote Eric Holder should NOT be allowed to casually walk away free just because his own department won’t prosecute him.

There are several options that can be taken including having a US Attorney for the District of Columbia deciding to have Holder testify before a grand jury or members of the House could appoint a special prosecutor to follow through on the contempt charges. 

Congress has jailed those found in contempt before but never a sitting Cabinet official but if there was ever a time to do so it’s now.  Brian Terry’s family deserves no less.