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Holder urges DOJ/FBI to unconstitutionally defy President: 'Protect the institutions'

  

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Via:  sixpick  •  6 years ago  •  17 comments

Holder urges DOJ/FBI to unconstitutionally defy President: 'Protect the institutions'

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder publicly urged his former employees at the Justice Department to defy President Trump’s request for transparency and public disclosures of information related to the unprecedented spy operation launched in 2016 against the Trump campaign. 


More DOJ norms being eroded. Trump-a SUBJECT of the investigation-wants access to material related to the inquiry. His Congressional supporters want evidence connected to an ongoing investigation. Time for DOJ/FBI to simply say no-protect the institutions and time tested norms.

Eric Holder (@EricHolder) May 21, 2018

Holder’s insistence that the DOJ and FBI “protect the institutions” rather than carry out their constitutional duties and protect the constitution, the document they actually swear to protect when entering their federal positions is telling and rather frightening. 

If one ever searched for a “deep state” smoking gun it appears Holder has offered it up. Protect the “Institution” of the Justice Department at the expense of the US Constitution. Defy the President’s orders for the sake of the governmental apparatus. 

The more this story develops, the more they expose themselves. 


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sixpick
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1  seeder  sixpick    6 years ago

Eric Holder’s 7 Worst Actions as Attorney General

Attorney General Eric Holder, the first attorney general in history to be held in contempt by the House of Representatives, surprised the political world today when he announced he would be resigning, effective on the confirmation of his successor.

Holder will leave a troubled legacy and many unanswered questions as John Fund and I discovered when we were researching our new book, Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.” The Justice Department veterans we talked to said that Holder has politicized the Department to an unprecedented degree, which should concern everyone who cares about the rule of law.

So what are the top seven worst actions by Eric Holder?

1. Operation Fast and Furious, probably the most reckless law enforcement operation ever carried out by the Justice Department. This gun-running scandal led directly to the death of an American border agent and many Mexican citizens. Holder was held in contempt because of his refusal to turn over information and documentation about this operation gone wrong that he basically claimed he knew nothing about.

2. Holder has waged a war on election integrity and “racialized and radicalized the [Civil Rights] Division to the point of corruption” according to one current Justice employee, embedding “politically leftist extremists in the career ranks who have an agenda that does not comport with equal protection or the rule of law; who believe that the ends justify the means; and who behave unprofessionally and unethically.”

3. Failure to conduct a real, criminal investigation of the IRS targeting of conservative organizations and to enforce the contempt citation issued by the House of Representative against Lois Lerner.

4. Reinstituting the Clinton-era model for handling terrorists that endangers the national security and safety of the American people and going after journalists in leak investigations while ignoring leaks coming out of the White House from high-level administration officials.

5. Failing to advise President Obama against taking actions that violate the Constitution and federal law, refusing to enforce or defend federal laws and trying to persuade state attorneys general to engage in the same type of behavior of refusing to defend laws passed by their state legislatures.

6. Engaging in collusive “sue and settle” lawsuits with advocacy organizations and political allies of the president in order to implement regulations and new requirements without public notice or participation in order to use taxpayer money to fund the budgets of liberal groups.

7. Treated Congress with contempt and did everything he could to evade its oversight responsibilities by misleading, misinforming and ignoring members of Congress and its committee.

There is no telling how long it will take to repair the damage that Holder has done to the Justice Department. History will not be kind to his legacy. As one former Justice Departmentemployee told us, in his opinion, “Holder is the worst person to hold the position of attorney general since the disgraced John Mitchell, who went to jail as a result of the Watergate scandal.”

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Greg Jones
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1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  sixpick @1    6 years ago

It appears Holder knows where all the bodies are buried and is afraid of what will happen if they are dug up. It's not the agency that is the problem, it's the political hacks and criminals like him and others higher ups that have to be exposed for the vermin they are.

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
1.1.1  seeder  sixpick  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1    6 years ago

Return to private practice

In July 2015, Holder rejoined Covington & Burling , the law firm at which he worked before becoming Attorney General. The law firm's clients have included many of the large banks Holder declined to prosecute for their alleged role in the financial crisis. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone opined about the move, "I think this is probably the single biggest example of the revolving door that we've ever had

Face it, the Left were duped by Obama and Holder, who lied to Congress while under oath and now represents the law firm that represents the banks he should have filed charges against when he was Attorney General. 

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Serious economic progressives did not become disillusioned with Obama when he accepted $400,000 for a speech, but when he arrived in office at the apex of the financial crisis and immediately stuffed his cabinet and advisory team with a coterie of alumni from Goldman Sachs (a top donor to this campaign in 2008 ). At the height of the worst financial catastrophe since the Great Depression, during a time of unique (and completely warranted) antipathy towards rapacious corporate interests, Obama had been elected with the single greatest mandate to implement sweeping change in recent political history. Given the same extraordinary kind of political demand, FDR took the opportunity to proclaim that “The old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering…they are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”

But when Obama was faced with a similar moment of calamity and possibility, he opted instead for the avenues of brokerage and appeasement. He chose not to push for criminal prosecutions of financial executives whose greed and negligence caused the 2008 economic crash. In 1999, Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, had proposed the concept of “collateral consequences” (colloquially known as “too big to jail”), whereby “the state could pursue non-criminal alternatives for companies if they believed prosecuting them might result in too much ‘collateral’ damage” to the economy. Thus, when banking giant HSBC was revealed to be laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda, Obama’s Justice Department allowed the bank to escape with a fine and no criminal charges, on the grounds that a prosecution might damage HSBC too much and have wider effects on the economy. Top prosecutors had evidence of serious wrongdoing by HSBC, but Holder prevented them from proceeding. A report prepared for the House Financial Services Committee concluded that Holder “overruled an internal recommendation by DOJ’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section to prosecute HSBC because of DOJ leadership’s concern that prosecuting the bank would have serious adverse consequences on the financial system.” Yet Holder later falsely suggested that the decision was made by the prosecutors rather than himself. (“Do you think that these very aggressive US attorneys I was proud to serve with would have not brought these cases if they had the ability?”) One should note just how unjust the “collateral consequences” idea is: it explicitly creates separate systems of justice for rich and poor, because there will always be more economic consequences to prosecuting major banking institutions than individual poor people. The same crime will therefore carry two different sets of consequences depending on how much you matter to the economy.

Holder also institutionalized the practice of extrajudicial settlements , under which “there was no longer any opportunity for judges or anyone else to check the power of the executive branch to hand out financial indulgences” to corporate offenders. Thus even as guilty pleas were extracted from banks and financiers for crimes ranging from fraud, manipulation, and bribery to money laundering and tax evasion, not a single malefactor from Wall Street ended up behind bars. (Meanwhile, America’s prisons remained full of less economically consequential people who had been convicted of the same crimes.)

 
 
 
It Is ME
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2  It Is ME    6 years ago

"Trump-a SUBJECT of the investigation-wants access to material related to the inquiry. His Congressional supporters want evidence connected to an ongoing investigation. Time for DOJ/FBI to simply say no-protect the institutions and time tested norms."

They just can't stop telling us...."TRUMP WAS SPIED ON" ! confused

They also keep forgetting, TRUMP was hired to do something about these...…"Time Tested NORMS " in government ! 

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
2.1  seeder  sixpick  replied to  It Is ME @2    6 years ago
They also keep forgetting, TRUMP was hired to do something about these...…"Time Tested NORMS" in government !

Yes Trump is a tool.  I don't really care for him, but I have to give him credit for all the productive things he has accomplished in spite of the obstacles he faces every day from the Left and MSM.  I now realize it would take someone like Trump to cripple the Deep State. 

 
 
 
It Is ME
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2.1.1  It Is ME  replied to  sixpick @2.1    6 years ago

Each ideological group forgets that he has no qualms in calling both sides out.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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3  Sean Treacy    6 years ago

Eric Holder is the swamp. 

 
 
 
sixpick
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3.1  seeder  sixpick  replied to  Sean Treacy @3    6 years ago

Yes he is and there are many more still in Washington just like him.  We should call them the Swamp Gang.

 
 
 
Bob Nelson
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4  Bob Nelson    6 years ago

Unless I am mistaken, all senior members of the government swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. They do not swear personal fealty to the President. Although... the present cabinet may have done so...

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
4.1  seeder  sixpick  replied to  Bob Nelson @4    6 years ago

An entity such as the FBI or the DOJ given unbridled power without reproach leads to tyranny.  The President has the power to declassify any or all of the information if he so desires, but of course with all the Liberal Judges appointed by Clinton and Obama, it will probably end up going to the Supreme Court, since the Liberal Judges don't use the Constitution to make their decisions.

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
6  Jasper2529    6 years ago
Time for DOJ/FBI to simply say no-protect the institutions and time tested norms.

Translation: DOJ/FBI need to continue covering up everything illegal/nefarious that the Obama Administration did.

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
6.1  seeder  sixpick  replied to  Jasper2529 @6    6 years ago

Just look at this and read it carefully.

More DOJ norms being eroded. Trump-a SUBJECT of the investigation-wants access to material related to the inquiry. His Congressional supporters want evidence connected to an ongoing investigation. Time for DOJ/FBI to simply say no-protect the institutions and time tested norms.

Eric Holder (@EricHolder) May 21, 2018

First it is worded in such a way to twist the meaning around somewhat like the immigrant comment Trump made in the past about rapists.  But more than that Holder wants to keep information the citizens should have to make a decision whether the FBI and/or the DOJ are being honest with us from us.  Now you have to ask yourself, what is tyranny?

When a government organization is given unbridled power and becomes beyond reproach it will lead to Tyranny.  That's why we have checks and balances in the government.  Both of these agencies have done nothing but stonewall the American People at least for the last 9 years.  And think about what we have found out about them in spite of the stonewalling. 

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
6.1.1  Jasper2529  replied to  sixpick @6.1    6 years ago

thumbs up   thumbs up   Clapping   Clapping

 
 
 
magnoliaave
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7  magnoliaave    6 years ago

Eric Holder is worthless,  Obama probably instigated this. 

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Quiet
8  bbl-1    6 years ago

Putin smiles.  Paydays for sex.  Hell with truth and The Constitution.  MAGA.

Roland Freisler for Supreme Court.  Trump needs the protection.

 
 

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