Contempt

Eric Holder tried to delay Mr. Issa's plan to bring him before the House of Representatives for a vote on Contempt of Congress.  They met, but Holder still refused to offer any more documents about that gun-running operation called Fast & Furious.

The questions Issa and the Congress wants answered are pretty simple.  Who came up with the stupid idea for Fast & Furious? (And stop trying to say it was the Bush Administration, that's simply false).  Who ordered it?  Who planned it?  What was its purpose?

Apparently Holder's been stonewalling to the point that he won't even verbally offer a hint about the answer to any of those questions.  He hasn't produced a scapegoat, and we've never heard about anybody he fired over the scandal, except perhaps for the whistleblower that brought it to the country's attention.  We still don't have any idea where the idea came from, what they hoped to accomplish, who ordered it, or who planned and implemented it.

There aren't too many possible reasons he's been so doggedly avoiding those questions.  One reason would be that it was his idea, and the purpose was political advantage in the argument over gun control legislation.  Another was that it came from Obama Himself, for the same political purpose. 

The only other possible reason is that the responsible person is such a close personal friend of Holder that he's willing to sacrifice himself to protect that individual.  That explanation is the weakest.

We've already had leaks and whispers from Justice employees suggesting that the first explanations are going to be the truth.  Making that public at this stage of the campaign could and should destroy Obama's re-election chances.  Therefore Holder will eat those documents with ketchup and salt before he will let Issa see them.

I wonder, will we ever find out why Brian Terry died?