The big question that thinking Americans should be asking apropos the Republican House’s efforts to hold Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress is whether or not all this is a lot of political theater intended to embarrass the Obama administration in an election year, or, has Holder really refused to provide Congress with the documents it needs to understand how the botched gun trafficking effort known as Fast and Furious played out.
As usual, the New York Times provided us with the answers. In yesterday’s edition, reporter Charlie Savage tells us that Holder has in fact provided Darrel Issa’s House Oversight and Reform Committee with thousands of documents. But none of those documents gave Issa the kind of ammunition he needs to destroy Holder’s career and embarrass the President. What I’m surprised the rest of the media has not as yet picked up and made an issue, is the following fact provided in Savage’s front page story:
“On Tuesday evening, Mr. Holder offered to give the committee some of the disputed documents if Mr. Issa would agree to end the fight over contempt, but the lawmaker refused to consider doing so until he saw them.“