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FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In email exchanges with subordinates in February and March 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder and the department's second-highest official expressed growing concern that something might have gone wrong in a federal gun-smuggling probe called Operation Fast and Furious. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Justice Won't Prosecute Holder for contempt



WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department has declared that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation from Congress does not constitute a crime and he won't be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.

In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, the department says that it will not bring the congressional contempt citation against Holder to a federal grand jury and that it will take no other action to prosecute the attorney general.

Deputy Attorney General James Cole says the decision is in line with long-standing Justice Department practice across administrations of both political parties.

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Topics : Law_Crime, Politics
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Locations : Washington
People : Eric Holder, James Cole, John Boehner
06/29/2012 3:38PM
Justice Won't Prosecute Holder for contempt
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07/02/2012 1:08PM
The Elite System.
How is it that the higher you go politics the laws of the land do not apply to you. Laws are enacted every day that only pertain to a certain class of people and not the Uber Elite in Washington. The Pharaohs have spoken make bricks without straw. Politicians on both sides really only care about themselves and not the people. Corrupt from the top down. Even the supreme court has been bought and paid for. No one is overseeing the overseers.
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