Eric Holder Blatantly Lies To Congress - Again

Our Attorney General spent yesterday lying his head off to Congress. There's really no other way to put it,and it was a rare display of dishonesty and arrogance, even for Washington.

Let's start out with this link to a clip where Rep. Jason Chafetz (R-Utah)read excerpts from some of the e-mails they finally managed to get from the Department of Justice after months of stone walling. The e-mails openly discuss PR strategy on Fast and Furious, the sordid scandal that saw the Department of Justice allowing the purchase and illegal sale of over 2,000 weapons to Mexican Drug cartels. Few of these weapons have been accounted for, and the ones that have were used to commit at least 300 murders, including that of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Holder simply lies to Chafetz,telling him the e-mails refer to a different operation called Wide Receiver, and continues to repeat that, even when Chafetz actually reads the e-mails and shows that they were talking about Fast and Furious and reference specific dates and incidents connected with it. Holder just says 'I disagree with your interpretation.'

Holder also admitted that the White House helped craft the Fast And Furious PR strategy:

“We [Holder, Axelrod and the White House] have certainly talked about ways in which we could deal with the interaction between the Justice Department and Congress — about ways in which we would,” Holder said in questioning before the House Judiciary Committee.

Virginia Republican Rep. Randy Forbes pressed Holder further by asking him if Axelrod, Obama’s re-election campaign and the White House were involved in crafting the DOJ’s policy for dealing with press. He said they were. “In terms of trying to get any message out that was consistent with facts and make sure it was done in an appropriate way, I’ve had conversations like that with people in the White House.”

Which leads top another question...why would the White House be helping to spin this..unless they were directly involved? It's one thing for a president to say something happened that shouldn't have, and that he's going to cooperate fully in getting to the bottom of it. It's quite another to plot how to package and stonewall it.

Representative Louis Gohmert( R-TX) responds...and grills Holder about two particularly juicy items. One of them is Holder's withholding of documents subpoenaed by Congress that were released under discovery during the infamous Holy Land Foundation Trial...yes, the one where Holder and the Obama Justice Department filed Declination of Prosecution briefs on most of the the individuals cited as unindicted co-conspirators in the first trial ( which ended in a conviction) and ended what was an open and shut case, essentially letting Muslim Brotherhood fronts like CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT off the hook, as well as their executives who were involved in material support for Islamic terrorism.

The second item is for him to ask Holder point blank if he ever went back to his office and demanded to know who signed off on Fast and Furious. Gohmert wants to know if Holder is any closer to finding out who authorized the operation. Holder claims he still doesn't know, and avoids the question of whether he's any closer to an answer.Of course Holder obviously couldn't answer the question truthfully without incriminating himself.



Then it's Chairman Darrel Issa's turn:



Issa continues demanding documents that Holder's refused to disclose. Issa specifically wants to know if he has prepared a list of documents which are responsive to the committee's subpoena, but have been withheld. And Holder... refuses to answer.

This is obscene - there's no other word for it - coming from an Attorney General of the United States, who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,foreign and domestic and to bear true faith and allegiance to it.

Given the speed at which these things work and given the Democrat's majority in the Senate, there's probably not time to impeach him, as Article II of the Constitution provides for.

But there is time to pursue a criminal indictment - and then offer Eric Holder immunity to rat out his boss so we can see what President Obama knew about Fast and Furious and exactly when he knew it.

Holy Land Foundation Convictions Upheld On Appeal

There are some very sad jihadis in Texas today...

The convictions in the Holy Land Foundation trial have been upheld by the Fifth Circuit and the appeals denied:

Ghassan Elashi, of Richardson, a Holy Land Foundation founder, received 65 years for support of Hamas, money laundering and tax fraud. Shukri Abu Baker, of Garland, who was Holy Land's CEO, received 65 years for support of Hamas, money laundering and tax fraud. Mufid Abdulqader, of Richardson, was a top volunteer fundraiser and sang about Hamas in a Palestinian band that played at fundraising rallies, received 20 years for conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to provide funds, goods and services to a specially designated terrorist; and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Abdulrahman Odeh, who started Holy Land's office in New Jersey, received 15 years in prison for conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to provide funds, goods and services to a specially designated terrorist; and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Mohammad El-Mezain, an imam who ran Holy Land's office in California, received 15 years in prison for providing support to Hamas.

The HLF, once the largest Muslim charity in the United States, had been under investigation for years before it was shut down by the Bush administration months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In their appeals, defense attorneys argued that the government's use of anonymous Israeli witnesses and other issues resulted in an unfair outcome for their clients, two of whom are serving 65-year sentences.

In today's opinion, Fifth Circuit Judge Carolyn Dineen King, writing on behalf of colleagues Emilio M. Garza and James E. Graves, Jr., noted:

"While no trial is perfect, this one included, we conclude from our review of the record, briefs, and oral argument, that the defendants were fairly convicted. For the reasons explained below, therefore, we affirm the district court's judgments of conviction of the individual defendants. We dismiss the appeal of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development."

Those 'anonymous Israeli witnesses' were Shin Bet and other security personnel whose personal safety and the secrecy involved in other ongoing investigations might have been compromised had they been identified.

These cockroaches helped fund the murder of countless civilians, including a number of American citizens. However, I agree that they didn't merit these kind of sentences.

A rope and a pigskin burial would have been more in line with what they merited.

It should be noted that this was the trial in which CAIR,ISNA and a number of other organizations people associated with these Muslim Brotherhood fronts were named as unindicted conspirators. This was supposed to be only the first round of trials associated with the HLF, and a second round of trials was scheduled to go after the 'unindicted co-conspirators'.

That trial would have been a slam dunk, because the Islamist group's attorneys appealed to have their names removed and not only lost the appeal but ended up causing government evidence to be unsealed that connected them even more directly with the Hamas fundraising and material support for a terrorist group.However, the Obama Department of Justice filed Disinclination to Prosecute briefs in these cases, letting the Islamists walk free. So today's verdict is just a partial victory.

It isn't just Fast and Furious Eric Holder is covering up for.

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Why Is Eric Holder Covering Up For CAIR?

The Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial was a landmark case involving our basic ability to combat fund raising for jihad against the West here in our own country. Essentially the HLF was a money laundering setup designed by the Muslim Brotherhood to raise money here and front it to terrorist groups like Hamas.

Along with the main participants being found guilty, a number of other Muslim Brotherhood front groups like CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America ( ISNA) the North American Islamic Trust of (NAIT) and a number of people in the leadership of these groups were all named as unindicted co-conspirators, in preparation for formal indictments and a second round of trials to be held later.

In the interim, CAIR and several other of these unindicted conspirators filed an appeal to have their names taken off this list and demanded that the evidence against them be unsealed.

Unfortunately for them, when the 5th Court of Appeals had Judge Solis comply, not only did Judge Solis' ruling make a prima facie case for these groups in fact providing material support for terrorism, but the appellate court endorsed the ruling, finding ample grounds to prosecute these groups for providing material support for terrorism.

That was back in November of 2010, and the government was gathering its case together for the second round of the HLF trials when a funny thing happened.

CAIR founder and chairman Omar Ahmad and current CAIR executive director Nihad Awad were caught on FBI wiretaps attending a 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders in Philadelphia, as FBI agent Lara Burns testified in court. Both were on the list of unindicted conspirators about to become indicted co-conspirators and tried, and the prosecution had a very strong case since the appellate court had already ruled.

But suddenly, on March 31of this year a "Declination of Prosecution of Omar Ahmad," was sent from Assistant Attorney General David Kris to Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler. The Obama Department of Justice subsequently filed declinations to prosecute on most of the rest of the individuals cited as unindicted co-conspirators and ended the case, essentially letting CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT off the hook, as well as the executives involved.

The exchange below is quite interesting, as it involved Attorney General Eric Holder denying to House Judiciary committee member Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)that the Obama Administration scuttled the investigation against these Muslim Brotherhood fronts for political considerations.

Jim Jacks was the interim federal attorney who successfully prosecuted the first round HLF trials and successfully defended the appeal by the unindicted co-conspirators in the 5th circuit. Last month, a report, quoting anonymous sources , described how Jacks and local FBI agents vehemently disagreed with the Obama Administration's decision not to indict Ahmad and to end its prosecution of the case against the Muslim Brotherhood fronts, out of fear of alienating the Muslim community.

As Rep. Gohmert points out, Jacks apparently said one thing before the disinclination to prosecute memo and something very different afterwards..and Gohmenrt asks Attorney General Eric Holder if political pressure was put on Jacks to get him to flip flop.



Eric Holder is, shall we say, somewhat habitually challenged when it comes to credibility and it's obvious that the word came down from the top, probably from the president himself.

These Muslim Brotherhood fronts have their tentacles deep in the Obama White House and Obama is counting on their help and support in the coming election.

Aside from that, the last thing the Obama Administration wants is controversy involving Muslim Brotherhood groups here in America....not when different figures in the Administration are busy telling us how secular and peaceful the Muslim Brotherhood is in preparation for outreach to the upcoming new regimes in Libya, Egypt and 'Palestine'.

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