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Posted: May 30, 2013 - 4:21pm
As a close friend of President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. should do the honorable thing and step aside before he adds more fuel to the president’s critics who claim his administration is filled with corruption. If Attorney General Holder does not go willingly, then the president has no choice but to fire him.
Holder has exhibited an unwillingness to admit mistakes and/or inappropriate actions by the Justice Department, of which he is the head.
Holder concocted Fast and Furious, a plan to smuggle guns across the Mexican border and then track those weapons once they were in the hands of drug lords and their armies. This scheme backfired. Murders on the Mexican side of the border using Holder’s guns were horrific. A U.S. Border Patrol officer was gunned down by gangs using Holder’s Fast and Furious weapons.
He seemed to have evaded the political radar on gun running, but took a direct hit when he tapped the phones of the Associated Press, Fox News, CBS and ABC news reporters.
Holder is attempting to duck responsibility for this latest fiasco by conducting meetings with the bureau chiefs of several news agencies in Washington. It’s called damage control.
Excuse me, but it’s a bit late for that. It was one thing to send guns to Mexico into the hands of ruthless drug kingpins, but it was unforgiveable when he authorized the wire tapping of phones, emails, cell phones and other devices used by the media.
Now that bastion of Obama supporters, the press, is crying foul.
The Justice Department is indicating that it will mend its ways. The Daily Beast states: “[F]or Attorney General Eric Holder, the gravity of the situation didn’t fully sink in until … he read the (Washington) Post’s front-page story [disclosing the extent of the (James) Rosen probe], sitting at his kitchen table. Quoting from the affidavit, the story detailed how agents had tracked Rosen’s movements in and out of the State Department, perused his private emails, and traced the timing of his calls to the State Department security adviser suspected of leaking to him. Then the story, quoting the stark, clinical language of the affidavit, described Rosen as ‘at the very least ... an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator’ in the crime. Holder knew that Justice would be besieged by the twin leak probes; but, according to aides, he was also beginning to feel a creeping sense of personal remorse.”
Mr. Holder, it’s time to step down.
Keith Hansen
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