Walsh Votes to Hold AG Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress

A press release from Congressman Joe Walsh:

Rep. Walsh to Holder: What Are You Hiding?

Votes to hold Holder and DOJ in contempt of Congress

WASHINGTON – Today Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-8), as a member of the Government Oversight and Reform Committee, voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for not cooperating with an October 12, 2011 subpoena.

After more than a year of investigating Operation Fast and Furious, the Department of Justice has failed to produce numerous subpoenaed documents to the committee. The committee passed the contempt citation by a vote of 23-17.

“Many questions have been left unanswered for too long,” said Walsh.

Joe Walsh

“For too long Attorney General Holder has demonstrated a lack of accountability and concern. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s family deserves answers, the whistleblowers deserve vindication, and the American people demand someone be held accountable.

“Chairman Issa has displayed great leadership and patience throughout this investigation.

“However, the Attorney General has refused to explain the rationale behind a reckless Administration policy that led to the deaths of American border patrol agents.

“I do not take this action lightly, and I think it is regretful that it has reached this point.

“All of this could have been avoided if the Attorney General provided the documents needed to conduct this investigation. Operation Fast and Furious was a tragic mistake.”

In November, Walsh led a letter with 39 of his colleagues calling for Attorney General Holder’s immediate resignation.

Recently, Walsh urged Chairman Darrell Issa to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt for his failure to comply with the October 2011 subpoena.


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Walsh Votes to Hold AG Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress — 10 Comments

  1. Thanks Joe….

    Enough of the Holder LIES.

    Obama with his Executive Order today …tried to cover up the LIES.

    Congress continue with the contempt charges against Holder.

    Obama needs to FIRE Holder!

  2. It is not only holder that is lying it is obama too, which is what he does best outside of campaigning. GET BOTH OUT and sentenced!

  3. Joe Walsh speaks for the citizens of Illinois. We need more just like him!

  4. Joe Walsh actually represents his constituents!

    Thanks for going after the blatant corruption of the Obama administration.

    Please put Eric Holder in prison for a year, preferably with Mexicans who have lost family to Obama & Holder Fast & Furious gun running.

  5. McHenry County Blog commenters….out of touch with reality. You are what you are.

  6. LCTruth says:
    06/21/2012 at 7:27 am

    “McHenry County Blog commenters….out of touch with reality. You are what you are.”

    We know that Obama is trying to hide evidence of his crimes. It didn’t work for Nixon, it won’t work for Obama, either.

    We know that Holder has taken another step down the trial to the GreyBar Hotel.

    We know that Holder’s guns killed Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, ICE agent Jaimie Zapata – guns that Obama/Holder deliberately, with malice aforethought, for the purpose of implementing gun control, allowed nearly 2000 firearms to be delivered to the Mexican drug cartels, WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE, PERMISSION, OR COOPERATION of the Mexican government.

    We know that Fast and Furious was an “under the radar” attempt to ban firearms. CBS News, on 12/7/11, blew that up:

    “Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation “Fast and Furious” to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales…ATF officials didn’t intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called “Demand Letter 3”

    We know that Katie Pavlich in her new book, “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and its Shameless Cover–Up” says that wasn’t a “‘botched’ program, [but] a calculated and lethal decision” by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, with the full knowledge and assent of the Departments of Justice and of Homeland Security, “to purposely place thousands of guns into the hands of ruthless criminals” (see p. 162).

    So here is what we are: We’re the people who aren’t stupid. We’re the ones pushing back at the lies your side tells here. We’re the ones who intend to find out EXACTLY WHAT CRIMES OBAMA IS TRYING TO BURY.

    And we know what YOU are.

  7. Thank you, j! Amazing treatise. (lol Most of us possibly do not have the patience.) Thank you for being you!

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