Eric Holder's Long History Of Lying To Congress

From an article by Investor's Business Daily

Before he lied to Congress while under oath about what he knew about targeting reporters, he lied about Fast and Furious. As early as the New Black Panthers case, Eric Holder had a problem with the truth.

That the House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 testimony on Department of Justice (DOJ) surveillance of reporters comes as no surprise. People have forgotten about the New Black Panther case, perhaps the most clear-cut case of voter suppression and intimidation ever. On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther Party members in military garb were videotaped intimidating voters outside a Philadelphia polling place.

The slam-dunk prosecution of these thugs was dropped by Holder's Justice Department. When asked why, Holder, on March 1, 2011, testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies that the "decisions made in the New Black Panther Party case were made by career attorneys in the department."

Holder lied, for the decisions were made by political appointees. J. Christian Adams, a former career DOJ attorney in the Voting Rights Section, testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that it was Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, an Obama political appointee, who overruled a unanimous recommendation for prosecution by Adams and his associates.

Documents obtained by Judicial Watch and a ruling by Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in response to a suit brought by the group show that "political appointees within DOJ were conferring about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the days preceding the DOJ's dismissal of claims in that case."

Fast forward to Fast and Furious, the Obama administration's program to "walk" guns across the border and into the hands of Mexican drug cartels in furtherance of its gun control agenda.

"When did you first know about the program officially I believe called Fast and Furious? To the best of your knowledge, what date?" House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa asked Holder in sworn testimony on May 3, 2011. "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks," was Holder's response.

Holder lied: A July 2010 memo shows Michael Walther, head of the National Drug Intelligence Center, told Holder that straw buyers in Fast and Furious "are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to the Mexican drug trafficking cartels."

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said other documents indicate Holder began receiving weekly briefings on the program from the National Drug Intelligence Center on or before that date.

In an exchange with Sen. Pat Leahy on Nov. 8, 2011, Holder admitted his May 3 testimony was inaccurate when he said he knew about Fast and Furious for a "few weeks." He later changed that to a "couple months."

But the memo from Walther referring to Fast and Furious in detail was sent directly to Holder on July 5, 2010 — not a "couple months" before he testified in May.

No surprise then on May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee, Holder lied when he said: "In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, this is not something I've been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy."

He personally signed off on James Rosen's warrant. Holder's defenders say the statement is technically correct because he never meant to prosecute Rosen, only to find the leaker. If so, then he lied to a federal judge.

Similarly, Holder's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee that he had recused himself from the Associated Press leak investigation that led to the blanket seizure of call records is not backed up by a formal recusal letter, which is required under such circumstances.

So we have at least four counts of lying to Congress by the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.

When did the lies begin? Looks like right after he took the oath of his office.

Geraldo Continues Obama False Narrative Over Benghazi

'Eric Bolling Explodes At Geraldo Over Obama's Response To Benghazi, Hangs Up MidInterview' was the headline from an article posted on the Fiscal Conservative which included the radio clip where Geraldo Rivera and some other ass clown (Elliot Spitzer) were pushing the long dis-proved lies of the Administration in an attempt to divert from the facts that Obama gave a stand down order which led to the deaths of at least two Americans. Americans who held off Islamic Terrorist's for 7 hours waiting on an American military response.   Make no mistake about it, a stand down order was given, it had to come from the President as he is the only one with that authority.

Fox News Channel hosts Eric Bolling and Geraldo Rivera blew up at each other on Rivera's radio program on Tuesday amid an argument over the appropriateness of President Barack Obama's response to the attacks on American diplomatic and service personnel in Benghazi in 2012. Bolling and Rivera battled over Obama's personal culpability in the attacks until Bolling hung up after being accused by Rivera of alleging that the president was "a damn murderer."

Rivera opened the interview by criticizing Bolling's focus on Obama's actions on the night of the attack. He said that Bolling is buying into a "false narrative" suggesting that Obama was personally disengaged on the night of the attack. Bolling said that there are multiple legitimate questions relating to the administration's response to the Benghazi attack, including who gave the order to not respond to the second attack and why the White House first blamed the attack on a YouTube video.

Bolling said that the military abandoned its 237-year-old motto to "leave no one behind." "You just heard Eric Bolling make an inflammatory statement alleging the worst kind of comment by the president and the secretary," Rivera said to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. "It's not alleging. It's what happened," Bolling fired back. "There's nothing alleged about that, Geraldo." "What you're alleging is an intentional failure to intervene when they had the opportunity to do that," Spitzer agreed.

Bolling contested that he ever said that either President Obama or former Sec. Hillary Clinton gave the order to "stand down," but that order was given. Rivera asked Bolling "what movie are you watching" to make such a claim? The group exploded when Rivera said that Bolling was making Obama "look like a damn murderer."

Bolling asserted that a "verbal stand-down order was given" on the night of the Benghazi attack. "You made that up," Rivera contested. "I'm not doing this," Bolling fired back. "These are the facts. You guys can look them up and I'll talk to you about it next week." At this point, Bolling hung up the phone.

Spitzer and Rivera concluded that there was no evidence to suggest that Obama personally acted in bad faith on the night of the Benghazi attack.

Hope For This Country

It is pretty damn depressing to watch the deterioration of individual rights, the assault on the Constitution, and the degradation of this great Nation in general. It is the easy path to withdrawl in the face of the overwhelming onslaught of the left against the intent of our Founding Fathers and the collective morals that this Country enjoyed for centuries, rationalizing that America is like the Roman Empire,...like all other great civilizations who no longer exist,....that our time has come and gone. It does seem like we are on a irreversible course with Government scandal after scandal,......with the looting of this Nation's treasure and the seemingly disconnect from reality of over half our population.

Well I am here to tell you there is a small window, a glimer of hope for this Country to reverse course and become great again,.....to stand against corruption,....to again embrace individual responsibility,...............but it ain't going to come unless we can leverage the skills and will of such new leaders like Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas, or Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky.

There are others, but they are few in numbers,......Mike Lee from Utah and Marco Rubio from Florida at the forefront. Listen to Ted Cruz's commencement speech to Hillsdale College and make your own judgement as to his Presidential capabilities.