{"id":47531,"date":"2014-05-16T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T12:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=47531"},"modified":"2014-05-16T08:05:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T12:05:22","slug":"did-holder-make-an-error-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=47531","title":{"rendered":"Did Holder “Misspeak” Yet Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, the US Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department had no plans to investigate the VA hospital \u201csecret list\u201d scandal. I noted that in this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, it looks like the AG\u2019s remarks on the subject were \u2013 to be charitable \u2013 inaccurate.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the VA\u2019s Acting Inspector General, Richard J. Griffin, disclosed that VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) personnel are currently working with Federal prosecutors<\/a> from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona and with personnel from the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department in Washington, DC. According to Griffin, these individuals are working together to “determine any conduct that we discover that merits criminal prosecution.”<\/p>\n

Hmm.\u00a0 Last time I checked, both US Attorney\u2019s offices and the Public Integrity Section were part of the Justice Department – which Holder heads. And from what Griffin said yesterday, it certainly looks like they\u2019re \u201cinvolved in an investigation\u201d at this time. But maybe I\u2019m just confused here.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s simply not plausible to me that the AG would be clueless about what his agency is doing in connection with a matter of extreme public interest.\u00a0 I don’t believe he is, actually.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time that Holder has made public statements (some of them under oath) that later turned out to be inaccurate. Remember Holder\u2019s \u201cerroneous\u201d testimony to Congress concerning \u201cFast and Furious\u201d?<\/a><\/p>\n

Geez.\u00a0 GMAFB.<\/p>\n

I have to tip my hat to Holder, though. With a straight face, he delivers sworn testimony and other public statements that later are shown to be inaccurate better than anyone in recent memory. The man has talent, and he has chutzpah<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He has no shame, of course. But he certainly has talent and chutzpah<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As I said the other day: Holder seems to have forgotten history. He might do well to remember it.<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Because it wasn\u2019t the Watergate break-in that put former AG John Mitchell in prison. It was his participation in the cover-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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