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New Orleans, Feds Unveil Sweeping Police Reforms

Justice Department will watch NOLA for four years

(Newser) - The Justice Department and the city of New Orleans yesterday unveiled an $11 million, 492-point plan to clean up the city's notorious police department, in what Eric Holder called the most sweeping such reform the federal government had ever been involved with. For the next four years, the NOPD...

Holder: Think Vote Was About Documents? You're Naive

Attorney General says he won't step down

(Newser) - Eric Holder says the House's vote to hold him in contempt of Congress was all about politics—and that it won't drive him from office. "If anything, it made me more determined to stay and to continue to fight," the attorney general told the Washington Post...

Justice Department: No, We Won't Prosecute the Boss

Agency tells John Boehner it won't pursue criminal contempt charges

(Newser) - The House may think Eric Holder is criminally contempt , but the Justice Department thinks the House can go fly a kite. The department informed John Boehner today that it won't prosecute its boss on the contempt charges, reports the Washington Post . The letter was drafted yesterday, the same day...

House Holds Eric Holder in Contempt

He's the first attorney general to be cited

(Newser) - The House today declared that Eric Holder was in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal, reports Politico . It's a first for a sitting attorney general, and the matter now goes to DC's federal attorney to determine whether to...

Boehner Is Burying Today's Contempt Vote for Holder

Steve Kornacki: No accident it takes place on ObamaCare day

(Newser) - Oh, by the way, the House of Representatives will make history later today by holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. Why schedule the vote on a day when it's sure to be buried amid ObamaCare headlines? At Salon , Steve Kornacki thinks it's an intentional move by John...

ATF Did Not Intentionally Allow Guns Into Mexico
ATF Did Not Intentionally Allow Guns Into Mexico
investigation
Jun 27, 2012 12:57 PM CDT

ATF Did Not Intentionally Allow Guns Into Mexico

Fortune: That Fast and Furious 'gunwalking' strategy never existed

(Newser) - The shorthand version of the Fast and Furious scandal goes something like this: ATF agents purposely allowed illegal guns to get into Mexico, then lost track of them, leading to horrific results . But a six-month investigation by Katherine Eban of Fortune magazine comes to a surprising conclusion: That so-called "...

Talks Fail, House GOP Moves on Holder's Contempt Vote

John Boehner says House will move forward with vote

(Newser) - The White House's last-ditch effort to avoid a contempt of Congress vote against Eric Holder has failed and John Boehner says the House will move forward with the vote, the AP reports. The Obama administration had offered to show congressional investigators some of the documents related to Fast and...

Upping the Ante, Issa Says Obama Conspired With DOJ

Congressman's letter escalates Fast & Furious battle

(Newser) - Darrell Issa is upping his attack on President Obama following the president's use of executive privilege in an attempt to bail out Eric Holder. A letter to Obama released today minces no words: "Either you or your most senior advisors were involved in managing Operation Fast & Furious...

Executive Privilege a Risky Move for Obama
Executive Privilege a
Risky Move for Obama
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Jun 21, 2012 6:30 AM CDT

Executive Privilege a Risky Move for Obama

President now owns Fast and Furious scandal

(Newser) - President Obama's decision to invoke executive privilege for the first time in his administration is a bold but risky move in an election year, pundits say. Here's a look at what he's up against now:
  • Most administrations assert executive privilege at some point, but Obama has started
...

House Panel Cites Holder for Contempt

Measure now moves to full House, probably next week

(Newser) - Darrell Issa's House panel has voted along party lines to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, reports Politico . The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee acted after Holder refused to comply with a subpoena to hand over documents related to Fast and Furious, the gun-surveillance program that went...

Obama Invokes Executive Privilege, Bails Out Holder

Darrell Issa pushes forward with contempt hearing anyway

(Newser) - Barack Obama invoked executive privilege to justify withholding certain documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal from Congress, just minutes before the House Oversight Committee was set to hold a contempt hearing against Attorney General Eric Holder. But the committee pressed ahead with the contempt hearing anyway, Fox News...

House Schedules Contempt Vote for Eric Holder

Attorney general faces questions over 'Fast and Furious' debacle

(Newser) - A House committee looking into the flawed gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious will consider holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress next week for failing to produce some documents the panel is seeking, officials announced today. The committee has scheduled a contempt vote for June...

Holder Appoints 2 Attorneys to Investigate Leaks

White House strongly denies being behind them

(Newser) - Eric Holder appointed two attorneys yesterday, along with prosecutors from the Justice Department's National Security Division, to look into accusations that the White House deliberately leaked classified information to reporters to boost the president's image, reports the Washington Post . Holder said their investigation will be separate from an...

Angry Holder, Axelrod 'Had to Be Separated'

Author Daniel Klaidman dishes on 2009 Cabinet dust-up

(Newser) - Eric Holder and David Axelrod went toe to toe in a heated cabinet meeting that almost got physical, according to a new book on Obama's presidency. Holder, the attorney general, became "incensed" when the Obama adviser accused him of griping publicly about White House interference, the Telegraph reports....

Tucson Shooting Hero Slams Issa on Gun Control

Patricia Maisch not a fan of plan to charge Eric Holder with contempt

(Newser) - Rep. Darrell Issa and his House Oversight Committee should spend less time investigating Attorney General Eric Holder over the Fast and Furious scandal and more time actually worrying about gun control, argues a hero of the Tucson shootings that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Patricia Maisch , 63, who wrestled a loaded...

GOP Moves to Charge Holder With Contempt

Darrell Isa says attorney general not cooperating with Fast Furious probe

(Newser) - Darrell Issa and the House Oversight Committee he heads up have set the wheels in motion to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, alleging that he hasn't cooperated with their investigation into the Fast and Furious fiasco . Committee officials got the green light from John Boehner after an...

James O'Keefe Makes Grab for Eric Holder's Ballot

'Sting' video intended to prove election fraud is real

(Newser) - James O'Keefe is at it again, and this time he's getting personal with the US attorney general. In a new video released today to Breitbart , the infamous fake pimp puts voter fraud in his crosshairs, and sets out to show the danger inherent in not having voter ID...

Holder to Judge: Yes, Obama Respects High Court

He had to defend president's comments on judicial activism

(Newser) - President Obama may have warned "unelected" justices about judicial activism, but that doesn't mean he opposes judicial authority, Eric Holder says. Following Obama's comments, a federal appeals court judge ordered the Justice Department to explain its views on the matter in three pages; Holder did it...

US Terror Agency Will Keep Data on Citizens Longer

NCTC can hold it 5 years now, instead of 180 days

(Newser) - The latest privacy flap: New rules will permit a federal counterterrorism agency to hang onto private data collected on US citizens—even those with no known ties to terror groups—for five years instead of 180 days, report the Washington Post and New York Times . The rules approved by Eric...

Holder Defends the Right to Kill Americans

Attorney general: Killing American terrorists is not 'assassination'

(Newser) - Eric Holder made his long-awaited speech today on the legality of America hunting down and killing its own citizens, the Washington Post reports. In a speech at Northwestern University in Chicago, the attorney general argued that an Oval Office review of the facts regarding any American amounted to "due...

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