Holder's fingerprints are all over Fast and Furious. This is a problem for the soon-to-be-elected President Romney.
You see, the complete truth will out in the first half of 2013, truth irrefutable driven by the GOP controlled House and Senate investigations and with Romney's Administration no longer obstructing said investigations. Documents will be released, so many documents. Meeting minutes. Sworn testimony before Congress. Holder's responsibility for a program resulting in hundreds of deaths will be beyond question.
And so gun owners and others of a similar political philosophy - the Team Party and GOP, for sure - will demand a reckoning. Democrats will cry "whitewash" along with "victor's justice" and no doubt "racist". And so what's Romney to do, caught between these two?
Immodestly, I propose the solution: back channel negotiations with the Mexican government can result in a Mexican charge of conspiracy, along with an extradition request. Romney can grant it, in the interest of foreign policy. The President, after all, is given that as part of his Constitutional responsibilities.
I'm guessing that seeing the inside of a Mexican jail is more than even a lot of the gun community might wish on Holder. But I might just be wrong on that.
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Holder in a Mexican prison? I'm good with that.
Man, that's exactly what I've been wanting for that smug conceited crooked lying bastard.
I was first to call for Holder to be stuffed into a duffel bag and launched over the new and improved border wall with a catapult.
I can put the US Govt in touch with people who can build a trebuchet to make sure he clears the wall and doesn't bounce back.
I would fire him over only after making a public announcement of the date and time of launch so that the Mexican Federales can collect him. Or the families of the dead. Whichever.
Can we also send some ATF Goons as well? Specifically, the ones who allowed this piece of crap, and the ones who kept silent as this treason was enacted?
As long as wherever he and accomplices end up involves bars. Steel ones.
Works for me... and he'd probably sing like a canary too! Meaning we'd get ALL the players...
Holder won't go to jail or even face any charges. Following obies defeat, he will issue a presidential pardon for any & all criminal activities by anyone in his administration. (except Hillary) It will probably be a long list, but he has the power and he will use it. Immediately after that, the LSM will begin to build the entire administrations history making it look like the finest, most honest and transparent administration ever. You can take the above to the bank it's so certain.
Even so, shame and shun is still in the playbook (and as the credibility of the media wanes, it will be more and more effective). Congress should proceed.
I've been advocating extradition for Holder for more than a year.
Roger, Obama can pardon Holder, but that pardon only applies to United States statutes and United States courts. Doesn't carry any weight with Mexico.
It might be better if the Mexican government tried Mr. Holder in absentia, ranted and raved for a bit, and then, a few months later, was mysteriously able to kidnap him and transport him to a Mexican jail. After a few years and deep inter-nation discussions, President Romney (who knew nothing about this, of course, and from the start is as indignant as can be about this rank injustice), can arrange for a prisoner transfer. They get 100 felon illegals, we get Mr. Holder.
Also, he can't pardon for crimes that have not been charged. There is no "umbrella pardon for crimes that may come to light later".
But I think the Obama administration will perform a detailed cleaning of records in their last couple of weeks.
--Professor Hale
Yeah, they'll be using one of these in the white house - a 2 1/2 ton per hour shredder.
Maybe they'll slip Eric in with the old papers?
I wish.
I don't see Romney doing much to Holder except replace him. No doubt Holder has a lot of dirt on a number of people in Washington, and that makes him a valuable resource.
Sorry, but when I think of Mitt the term "horse trader" comes to mind before "justice" does.
Nah,you're wrong. It would please me no end for Holder to rot in a Mexican prison.
As much as I'd like to see everyone get what's coming to them, I have to agree with Dave H..
Mittens will want to make that stuff go away as soon as possible, so he can get down to business.
The man knows how to turn a profit.
Great suggestions, though I do really like the idea of turning Holder over to the the families of the bystanders shot with Gunwalker weapons.
There is always the chance that rather than a pardon, a Holder "suicide" along the GW Parkway ala Vince Foster
I always figured Obama would pardon Holder for any laws broken before he left office. The laws he could not pardon would be state laws (Arizona, Texas, maybe Florida) or just hand him over to a pissed off Mexican population that would put him into a mancountry prison population. I suspect he would rat on anyone and everyone to avoid that. Probably even rat on Clinton/waco coverup. He will likely wind up like Ron Brown...he knows too much.
"Also, he can't pardon for crimes that have not been charged. There is no "umbrella pardon for crimes that may come to light later". "
Uhh, yes he can. Gerald Ford did exactly that for Richard Nixon: granted "a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974."
I'm looking forward to Mexico doing what Chile did with Pinochet.
"Welcome to Spain, Mr. Holder, please step this way."
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