From TheWashingtonTimes.com:
House Republicans on Monday asked the federal courts to intervene and force the Obama administration to turn over documents from the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking operation, escalating what had been a simmering constitutional crisis.
House Speaker John A. Boehner said President Obama and his team were ignoring a congressional subpoena — something the courts have long recognized as valid — and said lawmakers were left with no choice but to ask the third branch to referee.
“By stonewalling Congress and ignoring a contempt order, the Justice Department has left the House no choice but to take legal action so we can get to the bottom of the Fast and Furious operation that cost border agent Brian Terry his life,” Mr. Boehner said.
Time and again Mr Obama and his administration has ignored the law when it is convenient for them to do so. The AG has managed to ignore voter fraud and intimidation yet sued Arizona for doing the job that the federal government is tasked with.
Mr Obama has repeated said his administration would be the most “transparent” ever, yet history and facts prove it is indeed one of the most opaque:
In a bipartisan vote in June the House held Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents the House had subpoenaed as part of its official investigation.
The White House, which had first said it would try to work out a way to release the documents and said they didn’t show anything incriminating, later reversed course and claimed executive privilege prevented them from having to release the information.
The bottom line is: had this been a Republican White House and Attorney General, the hue and cry would have been advanced months ago and said AG would be out on his or her ass. But because Eric Holder is black, covered by Mr Obama in the White House, he remains in office.
Mr Holder has proven that he is a racist himself, on multiple occasions, with his suits and perhaps more pointedly, his purposeful ignorance of actions that demand suit.
Mr Holder needs to be relieved of office and the documents released.
BZ
