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Politics : Fast and Furious-----Obama/Holder Gun Running Scandal -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (535)	7/12/2012 12:57:35 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 749

BIDEN at NAACP: 'Imagine what Romney Justice Department will look like' BIDEN at NAACP: 'Imagine what Romney Justice Department will look like'...

To: Carolyn who wrote (535)	7/12/2012 1:05:49 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 749

NAACP resolution calls Holder "one of the best attorney generals in history:" On Tuesday, the NAACP unanimously passed an “emergency resolution” calling the bipartisan votes to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal and civil contempt of Congress a “travesty of justice.” The resolution is meant for the NAACP to “express their outrage at the treatment of the first African-American and one of the best attorney generals in history.” As the resolution passed, Holder got rock-star treatment, walking around shaking the hands of many of those in attendance. Read more: dailycaller.com

To: Carolyn who wrote (535)	7/25/2012 6:50:27 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 749

Sources: Eric Holder scolded Capitol Hill intern for taking notes during lecture The Daily Caller ^ \| 7/25/2012 \| Matthew Boyle Sources have confirmed to The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday berated an intern from House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy’s office for taking notes during a lecture he gave on Capitol Hill. According to one intern who was present, Holder had just started speaking when he noticed a male intern who was standing on the side of the packed room beginning to take notes with a pen and paper. “Holder is talking and then he sees some kid taking notes,” the intern, who asked to remain anonymous to protect his boss, said in a phone interview. “He [Holder] asks, ‘Oh, why are you taking notes? Are you from the Washington Post?’” “He [the intern Holder scolded] is like, ‘no,’” the intern who spoke with TheDC recalls. “Then, he [Holder] is like, ‘what office do you work in?’” he continued. “And, the kid is like, ‘oh Kevin McCarthy.’” He said, next, Holder responded, “’Oh, you’re one of those guys,’ kind of like jokingly but meaning he was a Republican.” Holder’s remarks apparently had an effect on the room, the intern who spoke with TheDC said. ““Yeah, I was scared to take notes then,” he told TheDC. “No one else whipped out pens and paper to take notes.” He said he thought Holder may have been “trying to be funny,” but it was pretty clear to him that Holder scared everyone there. “I looked around and there was not one other person [taking notes] after that,” the intern said. “I was upset because I forgot my pen and paper, but after that I was like ‘thank God.’” In the end, the scolded McCarthy intern may have had the last laugh. After Holder gave his speech, he took questions. The first items up, according to TheDC’s source, were voter ID and prison issues. “Then, the last question, he went to the kid he yelled at from McCarthy’s office and that kid asked about Fast and Furious,” he said. Holder is in civil and criminal contempt of Congress for failing to comply with the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. Eight senators, 130 congressmen, two governors and Mitt Romney have all demanded Holder’s resignation over the gunrunning program. Another source with direct knowledge of the situation that occurred in the room confirmed the details of the intern’s account for The Daily Caller. “Did the Attorney General of the United States of America scold an intern for taking notes at a lecture? Yes.” Holder’s lecture was the latest installment in a program for Capitol Hill interns featuring different daily speakers throughout the summer months. The intern lecture was packed, sources told TheDC and was standing room only, with a couple hundred people in attendance. The talk began at 11 a.m. and was held in room 325 of the Senate Russell Office Building. It was not open to the general public or the press – only congressional interns were allowed. “They checked our IDs to make sure we were all interns,” the intern who spoke with TheDC said. Holder spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler didn’t respond to TheDC’s request for comment and McCarthy’s office wouldn’t comment on the record.

To: Carolyn who wrote (535)	8/3/2012 1:19:54 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 749

GOP prepares to file lawsuit against Holder NBC ^ \| August 3, 2012 \| Frank Thorp House Republicans will file a civil suit against Attorney General Eric Holder during the August recess, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has told NBC News. House Republicans will file suit in an effort to compel Holder to release documents associated with the failed "Fast and Furious" gun-walking operation. "We'll be filing a civil case during the break," Issa told NBC, "We will expect a day in court before a federal judge, which we have a 100 percent chance that the judge will hold that these documents should be delivered." During negotiations between House Republicans and Holder in June, the White House invoked executive privilege on the documents Issa had requested for his investigation. Issa says that a federal judge should find that executive privilege does not apply to the documents he is requesting.

To: Carolyn who wrote (535)	9/19/2012 1:04:45 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 749

Obama's Media Matters Goon Squad http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/091812-626216-media-matters-colludes-with-justice-department-to-halt-critics.htm?p=full Abuse Of Power: The Justice Department has been caught colluding with left-wing media "watchdog" Media Matters to suppress critics who've embarrassed the Obama administration. What is this, Hugo Chavez's Venezuela? Based on a cache of internal Justice Department e-mails obtained by the Daily Caller, Attorney Gen. Eric Holder's press staff has been collaborating all along with left-wing media "watchdog" Media Matters to smear any reporter asking uncomfortable questions, to discourage whistle-blowers, to discredit political watchdogs and to suppress damaging news about what's going on in the Obama administration. The Daily Caller found dozens of pages of e-mails between DOJ Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers planning and discussing how to attack reporters who covered scandals such as the Black Panther voter suppression case, and the Fast and Furious scandal where DOJ sold thousands of guns to Mexico's notorious crime cartels — the truth of which DOJ didn't want to get out. This was the Obama administration planning and directing operations from on high in a grotesque example of the state with all its powers using an off-the-books nuisance organization to harass its critics. After the acts, the DOJ then praised them: "Great piece," gushed Schmaler after Media Matters attacked DOJ whistle-blowers J. Christian Adams and Christopher Coates. Incredibly, this isn't happening in some totalitarian dictatorship or banana republic, but here in the U.S. And its implications are serious. Media Matters, recall, is an organization that seeks to drive the press leftward by harassing and shaming mainstream reporters as "conservatives" if their reporting doesn't toe the White House party line. They keep blacklists and give out reporters' emails and phone numbers to encourage badgering calls. As for conservative critics, they demand advertiser boycotts and urge firings of conservative commentators. They tried at least twice to shame Rush Limbaugh's advertisers into pulling ads from his show — which in retrospect is a state attack on private enterprise as well as a blatant violation of free speech. They succeeded in getting radio host Don Imus and TV commentator Glenn Beck fired. And they carried on an unprecedented campaign of harassment against Fox News. The emails show that not only did DOJ use Media Matters to attack reporters — in this case, from Townhall, Breitbart, Fox and even the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog — but they also used it to attack Obama's foes. E-mails show Media Matters and DOJ colluded to discredit House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, who was investigating the Fast and Furious scandal. The emails also show that they went after Tea Party Nation founder Justin Phillips for daring to speak up. Already Media Matters' founder, David Brock, is on record as a regular visitor to White House aide Valerie Jarrett, according to reporting by the Daily Caller. He also has a direct line to the head of MSNBC and has written its primetime scripts. Besides this, he routinely feeds dirt to the Washington Post and Politico. We have often commented on the lap-dog media and its unprecedented distortions slanting the news in favor of the Obama administration. Now we see something else — Media Matters acting as an ideological goon squad of the Justice Department to enforce the kind of press Obama wants. This thuggish meddling crosses the line into dictatorship, and calls for a congressional investigation