While Committee hold Eric Holder in contempt, Media still asleep at the Wheel
Cable news is all up in an uproar over Darrell Issa’s Oversight Committee voting to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt and while they are reporting on it and allowing commentary and opinions from familiar faces the main point and most obvious question has yet to be answered or even asked. According to Rachel Rose Hartman of Yahoo! News in her article titled Committee votes to hold Eric Holder in contempt over Fast and Furious, she reports that “the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress despite a last-minute intervention by President Obama . By a vote of 23 to 17 after nearly six hours of tense discussion, the bipartisan committee voted for contempt over the Justice Department's decision to withhold documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that were subpoenaed by the committee in their investigation of the failed gun walking operation. Many committee members Wed...