{"id":23929,"date":"2014-09-25T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23929"},"modified":"2014-09-25T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:38:06","slug":"eric-holder-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23929","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Holder is expected to resign later this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/sep\/25\/contempt-congress-case-will-proceed-without-holder\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Times<\/a> posted a story about his resignation today. The article included the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The contempt of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/congress\/\">Congress<\/a> case against Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/eric-h-holder-jr\/\">Eric H. Holder Jr.<\/a> \u2014 the first sitting Cabinet member ever to face such a congressional rebuke \u2014 will continue even after his resignation takes effect, but it\u2019s unlikely he will ever face personal punishment, legal analysts said Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/eric-h-holder-jr\/\">Mr. Holder<\/a>, is expected to announce his resignation later Thursday, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/tom-fitton\/\">Tom Fitton<\/a>, president of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Judicial Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judicial_Watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Judicial Watch<\/a>, said the timing is not accidental: A federal judge earlier this week ruled that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/department-of-justice\/\">Justice Department<\/a> will have to begin submitting documents next month related to the botched Fast and Furious gun operation in a case brought by Judicial Watch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judicial Watch has done an amazing job using the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Freedom of Information Act (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_Information_Act_%28United_States%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)<\/a> to stop the stonewalling by the Obama Administration on Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal, and the Benghazi attack. Judicial Watch has used FOIA to get documents that the Obama Administration was not releasing to Congressional oversight committees.<\/p>\n<p>The article continues:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Two years ago the House voted 255-67 \u2014 with 17 Democrats joining the GOP \u2014 to hold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/eric-h-holder-jr\/\">Mr. Holder<\/a> in contempt of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/congress\/\">Congress<\/a> for refusing to turn over documents from the Fast and Furious operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_House_Committee_on_Oversight_and_Government_Reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">House oversight committee<\/a> had sought the documents, saying they would shed light on who knew about the botched operation, which saw federal agents knowingly let guns be sold to traffickers. Hundreds of those guns turned up at crime scenes in Mexico, and two were found at the site where <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Border Patrol\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/xp\/cgov\/border_security\/border_patrol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">U.S. Border Patrol<\/a> Agent <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"ATF gunwalking scandal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ATF_gunwalking_scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Brian Terry<\/a> was killed in Arizona.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eric Holder has turned the Justice Department into a political arm of the Democratic party. It is no longer the neutral department it is supposed to be. Unfortunately., his replace will probably continue that policy. Hopefully our next American President will return the Justice Department to its original mission&#8211;providing equal justice under the law.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Holder is expected to resign later this afternoon. The Washington Times posted a story about his resignation today. The article included the following: The contempt of Congress case against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. \u2014 the first sitting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23929\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3294,395,270,886,2640,3620,189,607],"class_list":["post-23929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contempt-of-congress","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-freedom-of-information-act","tag-judicial-watch","tag-tom-fitton","tag-united-states-house-committee-on-oversight-and-government-reform","tag-washington-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23930,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions\/23930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}