Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress?
Attorney General Eric Holder
Ignoring President Barack Obama’s assertion of executive privilege, a House committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents related to a botched gunrunning operation that led to the death of a federal agent.
The day’s events began with Obama’s first use of executive privilege to withhold the documents the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is seeking and ended with that’s committee’s late afternoon party-line 23 to 17 vote to hold Holder in contempt. The two moves promise to ratchet up the ongoing showdown between Congress and the White House over the program dubbed “Operation Fast and Furious.”...