After listening to Rep. Darrell Issa go off on another one of his conspiracy laden witch hunts, Attorney General Eric Holder finally had enough and called the California Republican’s behavior unacceptable and shameful.
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Issa: Mr. Attorney General, our investigators have seen thirty four of the thirty five admitted emails that violate the Federal Records Act. They’ve only seen the to and from. They’ve not seen the deliberative contents, and they have not seen the remainder of the 1,200 emails. Mr. Cummings, my ranking member joined in a letter requesting that we have the full contents pursuant to our subpoena of all 1,200. Will make them available to the committee based on our bipartisan request?
Holder: I will certainly look at the request. It’s not something that I have been personally been involved in, but I’ll look at the request and try to be as responsive as we can. I’m sure there must have been a good reason why the to and from parts were….
Issa: Yes, you didn’t want us to see the details. Mr. Attorney General, knowing the to and from…
Holder: No, No. That’s what you do. I’m not going to stop talking now. You characterized as something those…of the people in the Justice Department. That is inappropriate and is too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of Congress. It’s unacceptable, and it’s shameful.
Issa tried to interrupt Holder by asking the committee chairman to inform the witness of the rules.
There is no love lost between Issa and Attorney General Holder. Remember, Rep. Issa was behind the House vote to hold Eric Holder in contempt over 2012′s bogus Fast and Furious scandal.
Rep. Issa is the troll living under our collective political bridge whose only mission is wasting taxpayer money by investigating an endless series of conspiracy theories that are all designed to take down the Obama administration. Issa was trying to frame the DOJ’s refusal to reveal the content of the emails as some vast cover up, when it reality these emails are just part of the never ending struggle for power between the executive and the legislative branches.
Congress wants access to everything. Presidents have long been wary of giving Congress anything more than they have to, because the legislative branch leaks like a sieve. Issa has been using this natural tension between the two branches as an excuse to go on a non-stop Obama witch hunt.
The left has been waiting for someone to call out Issa’s sleazy behavior for years.
Today, Attorney General Holder finally had enough of Rep. Issa’s playing to Fox News, and served him a big heaping helping of shut the f**k up.
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jess
May. 15th, 2013 at 6:40 pm
That was still too polite, in my opinion.
I was hoping for someone to literally smack Issa across the face.
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djchefron(Moderator)
May. 15th, 2013 at 6:55 pm
I hope the Democrats on the panel were taking notes.Appeasement does not work and its time to call out these insane crooked lying liars.
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Churchlady320
May. 15th, 2013 at 11:26 pm
Nah – this was JUST the thing. Calling him out means he has no martyr standing! Smacking him would have made him a ‘victim’ ESPECIALLY at the hands of a – gasp – BLACK man!
Indifference and disdain is what shrivels them and turns them into dust.
Good job, Mr. Attorney General! Good job indeed!
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sandra levitz
May. 17th, 2013 at 10:26 am
Not to be petty, but any near sixty year old man who expects any respect does not run around with shoe-polish black hair. Or as a member of Congress, show complete lack of respect to witnesses, regardless of their government positions. Such grandstanding when having such a shady past, seems a bit demented. I’m far from a supporter of Eric Holder. I’d love to see him replaced. Issa, however, needs to be taken down more often and harder than Holder did. This near felon was put in a position where he can “go wild?” Repubs have to get a grip.
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Earl Price
May. 15th, 2013 at 6:57 pm
He should have mentioned Issa’s arrest record. How he gets elected is beyond me
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Churchlady320
May. 15th, 2013 at 11:27 pm
No – that’s irrelevant to this issue and takes the low road which, given the Baggers, Patriots, and demented people such as Issa, is AWFULLY CROWDED!
Holder stuck to the point and brought it HOME! Whee!
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E. Joyce
May. 15th, 2013 at 7:19 pm
#Issa is nothing more than a political ambulance chaser for the #GOP. He still thinks he’s going to get some plum GOP position through his witch hunts.
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Gina
May. 15th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
What Eric Holder said wasn’t shit. In Issa’s twisted world the insults are a compliment. Would Satan be insulted to be called evil? Same thing. If someone would drag Issa into a dark ally and beat the lies out him, that’s payback. Fast & furious fuck head. Issa’s a nasty piece of work.
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Charlie F
May. 15th, 2013 at 8:55 pm
While thousands of government workers are being asked to take work furloughs because of the sequester, there is Issa wasting government funds on a conspiracy hearing. One day furlough is a 20% pay cut for a government employees, while Congress takes weeks of vacation with no pay cut.
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Jeff R
May. 16th, 2013 at 12:39 am
They wasted $800 million dollars hounding Clinton and what did they get? A stained dress and a loss in the next election.
They will not stop this time until they turn up or fabricate something and will they get? A loss in the next election.
The Republican Party is going the way of The Whigs: Into the trash heap of history.
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Inez
May. 15th, 2013 at 10:32 pm
I watched Holder, an upstanding representative of the Justice Department.ISSA has a hard on over the loss of any penalties for Holder in the Fast and Furious debacle.a Of course, while all of these supposedly intellegent committee members waste taxpayers money with these unnnecessary investigations, they do not have to be doing the jobs they were elected to do. Holder let Issa have it…good for him!
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Jeff R
May. 16th, 2013 at 12:49 am
I would not go so far as to call Mr. Holder “an upstanding representative of the Justice Department.”
He has, after all, failed entirely to stand up and defend The Constitution by refusing to even investigate the crimes proudly admitted to by members of the previous administration.
He has thus let the precedents set by the theory of the Unitary Presidency stand.
Obama may have chosen not to torture, but the precedent stands for some future president to use again.
Other precedents he allowed to stand:
Wiretaps without judicial review or warrant.
The rescission of Habeas Corpus.
And, of course, by allowing the absurd notion of the Unitary Presidency to stand Holder paved the road for Obama to implement extra-judicial executions (aka murder by presidential order).
Holder is right to stand up to Issa who is an ass and essentially an anarchist, but you go much to far when you call Mr. Holder “upstanding.”
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Jo
May. 15th, 2013 at 10:52 pm
In 2010 he said he was going to hold hundreds of hearings smearing President Obama. They are so full of hate everyday it’s the same thing, President Obama is a crook, liar, dictator, whatever. I think people are so sick of it, they have wasted millions and have done nothing for Americans. I hope to God he is the one being raked over the coals in a court room someday.
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Holder in contempt
May. 16th, 2013 at 12:42 am
Holder is in the wrong here. He refuses to accept any responsibility and he literally closes his eyes and just rants off fancy ways of saying “I don’t know and you can’t prove that”. He’s a sham and the only thing he’s good at is wasting taxpayer money and time since he will not cooperate with the committee investigating him.
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TheCP29
May. 16th, 2013 at 6:30 am
The GOP is still dejected that Palin doesn’t have access to nuke codes. FOX news? if anyone hasn’t seen this so called network implode over the last year then they have been in some undisclosed location helping Cheney recover from his transplant. I still feel that whoever gave Cheney his new heart did the American people a great disservice.
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TimFromLA
May. 16th, 2013 at 2:45 pm
This is why we are on the losing end. It’s time we stand up to these thugs. Even Dennis Kucinich stood up to the Republicans and we must too.
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Ed Nestor
May. 17th, 2013 at 2:13 am
This crook Darrell (Hitler)Issa belongs on a rifle range as a target. A AR15 club should shot off there thirty round clips up this auto salesman, burning buildings criminal with a bullets up his lying ass. Who the hell votes for crooks like this. This country is sick.
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SouthernLady328
May. 20th, 2013 at 12:24 am
A.G. Eric Holder, good for you! I’m glad you challenged that common criminal’s conduct pretending to be a decent representative of decent people. Darrell Issa is pure gutter SCUM. He’s not qualified to touch the hem of your garments OR clean the soles of Pres. Barack Obama’s shoes with his tongue.
Do us all a favor, Mr. Holder, and investigate Issa. He’s nothing but a common THUG posing as a respectable citizen. His audacity to question you, especially with such venom, is extremely nauseating. Nothing but a ‘dog & pony’ show for RWingers. Most of America have had enough of his harassment of you and the administration. He’s creating undue drama and mistrust in the administration to feed into the irrational fear that bigots hold for yours and Barack Obama’s tan skin. If they must fear the color of skin, they could start with JOHN BOEHNER’s – the tan drunk.
The level of disrespect and harassment that has been levied against you and this president is epic. We are sick to…
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