White House, DOJ make last-ditch effort to avoid Holder contempt vote (Rejected)

[Tx4obama]

Washington (CNN) - Officials from the Justice Department and the White House met with senior aides to House Speaker John Boehner and Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa at the White House Tuesday to try to head off a House vote on Thursday holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, but their offer to show congressional investigators some documents related to the failed "Fast and Furious" gun trafficking program was rejected.

According to a summary of the offer provided by a senior administration official and a Justice Department official familiar with the discussions, the Justice Department outlined an offer that included giving Congress access to some of the documents generated between February 4, 2011, when the DOJ initially told Congress there was no inappropriate activity, and December 2, 2011, when Justice acknowledged the program was "fundamentally flawed."


"We reached out and showed them a representative sample of the documents so they could see first-hand the types of communications in contention," the administration official said. President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege in the dispute.

The DOJ also offered to conduct a briefing, give Congress documents related to the whistleblowers, and work with the committee to respond to any questions they had after reviewing the materials. According to a summary of the offer Justice maintained this would have given Congress "unprecedented access to deliberative documents.

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Full article here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/26/white-house-doj-make-last-ditch-effort-to-avoid-holder-contempt-vote/

[DCBob]

1. On balance this issue ranks below about a hundred other more pressing concerns with most voters.

Waste of time and effort.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. As with most things ...

perception is everything; whether we know it to be a waste of time and effort, or not.

[jenmito]

3. But since the NRA said they're gonna "score" the congressmen on their votes, there's supposedly

gonna be up to 30 Conservadems who will vote with the Repubs. in order to keep their NRA scores high. That'll make it "bipartisan" and will be used against this admin. up to election day.

[DCBob]

4. I still dont think it will matter to most voters..

much ado about nothing.