Report: Issa Staffer Offered To Stop Holder Contempt Vote For DOJ Scalp
Source: talkingpointsmemo.com
Rep. Darrell Issas chief investigative counsel offered to stop the contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder in exchange for the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, Newsweeks Dan Klaidman is reporting.
Issa staffer Stephen Castor brought up the issue of accountability during a phone call with a senior DOJ official last week, according to the report. Castor reportedly said they could head off the contempt vote if Breuer stepped down.
Breuer, who heads the Justice Departments Criminal Division, apologized in October for not telling other Justice Department officials that guns were allowed to walk during the Bush administration when Congress first raised questions about Operation Fast And Furious in early 2011.
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)The GOP is always on a witch hunt when it comes to Democrats. Holder being appointed by President Obama is considered part of the Democratic Administration.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 22, 2012, 04:37 PM - Edit history (1)
Anything to embarrass the President in an election year.
Jumping John
(930 posts)Otherwise the house can just run rough shod over the executive branch and black mail the EB into doing their bidding.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)Woody Woodpecker
(562 posts)And then turn yourself in for crimes against humanity
SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)What a scumbag Issa is.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)What's our narrative here?
jeff47
(26,549 posts)So it could be trying to create a more friendly narrative for the Republicans than the vendetta.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)I don't know, but it does seem to me that the real agenda is to embarrass the President.
shraby
(21,946 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)If they succeed, they'll have the Administration by the balls. "You do this and we won't do that..."
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)obama called his bluff and issa has no where to go with his contempt campaign
wordpix
(18,652 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)us believe they're not but they are
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)how about if all the people who covered up for Bush take a WALK!
clang1
(884 posts)Sure it isn't about this since the GOP has so many fingers in it as well (heh and we all know the GOP does not investigate it's own corruption unless they can blame it one someone else). So who knows at this point.
U.S. AG Eric Holder, DoJ Head Lanny Breuer Linked To Banks Accused Of Foreclosure Fraud
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/eric-holder-banks-lanny-breuer_n_1218452.html
'Reuters reported in December that under Holder and Breuer, the Justice Department hasn't brought any criminal cases against big banks or other companies involved in mortgage servicing, even though copious evidence has surfaced of apparent criminal violations in foreclosure cases.'
'While Holder and Breuer were partners at Covington, the firm's clients included the four largest U.S. banks - Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo & Co - as well as at least one other bank that is among the 10 largest mortgage servicers.'
Whole damn system is rotten, everyone eating out of the others hand, on both sides and as usual We the People just get ________.
Makes me think of another post of mine on Power Structures.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)The guns which was not accounted for in earlier years. Let Issa prove the first gun walking began after Holder was AG
wordpix
(18,652 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)why don't they start with one of their own ADMITTED witches???
DCBob
(24,689 posts)I wouldnt even respond to such a request.