Amid Cloud of Scandal, Attorney General Holder to Resign
Amid the stench of virtually non-stop scandals and even being in criminal contempt of Congress due to the ongoing Fast and Furious cover-up, Obama’s disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder plans to resign as soon as a replacement is found. The White House announced the deeply controversial figure’s resignation on Thursday after resisting years of public and congressional pressure on the issue. For some critics, though, resigning is not enough; they say Holder ought to be prosecuted and jailed for a wide range of serious crimes. Former Justice Department officials and analysts, meanwhile, said repairing the damage Holder has done would be a Herculean but crucial task for his successor.
It was not immediately clear whether Obama would attempt to pre-emptively pardon his top law enforcer. However, without a pardon, Holder could spend years behind bars for, among other crimes, unlawfully blocking congressional investigations and ignoring subpoenas about the administration’s deadly plot to arm Mexican drug cartels. Hundreds of Mexicans and numerous Americans, including U.S. law enforcement officers, have been slaughtered with guns deliberately sent to cartels by the administration. Official documents later showed Holder and others
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