These "phony" scandals keep rudely refusing to go away. New findings from the House Judiciary Committee appear to stop short of accusing the Attorney General of bona fide perjury, but make clear that they view his testimony as grossly misleading. Via National Review:
Good luck with those calls for a "shake up" at DOJ, House Republicans. The president and his Attorney General have made it abundantly clear that they couldn't care less about the opinion of Congress. In fact, in response to a reporter's question about whether he has the authority to unilaterally revise Obamacare, the president said, "ultimately, I’m not concerned about [members'] opinions — very few of them, by the way, are lawyers, much less constitutional lawyers." Caught up in a self-inflicted firestorm over his department's treatment of the free press, Holder investigated himself, imposed new ostensible limits on himself, and told everyone else to move on. After a politically-charged (but correct) verdict came down in a Florida courthouse last month, Holder's DOJ went through the motions of investigating the alleged crime further, for the sole apparent purpose of satisfying a political constituency. And in the wake of the Supreme Court decision invalidating an anachronistic segment of the Voting Rights Act, Holder is attempting an end-run around the ruling through a new action against the state of Texas. The idea that a House panel's slap on the wrist will force Holder's hand is laughable. He operates with impunity, as anyMoses-like"Chief Lawgiver" would. That doesn't change the fact that Holder clearly misled the United States Congress with statements made under oath, pertaining to a warrant he personally vetted, that sought to treat a Fox News correspondent as a potential criminal co-conspirator within the context of a leak investigation. On May 15, Holder offered this sworn testimony:
Key words: "Potential," and "heard of." By signing off on listing Rosen as a criminal co-conspirator in a warrant (the purpose of which was to seek shocking, ongoing access to Rosen's phone and
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