Holder bemoans only his failure on gun ban
By his own admission, outgoing US Attorney General Eric Holder got nearly everything right during his time at the Department of Justice. In fact, he only had one single failure: failing to advance federal gun control.
Reflecting on his career with a sympathetic interviewer, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry, Holder modestly confessed his lone misstep, according to Liberty News.com which reported on the interview.
“It is the single failure that I point to in my time as attorney general — that I was not able to, along with other members of the administration, convince Congress to follow the will of the American people, which is to enact meaningful, reasonable gun safety measures,” he said.
When it comes to a litany of other court defeats, politically motivated subversions of the Constitution and power-mongering moves, Holder’s conscience is clear.
“Holder does not view his false testimony in the ‘Fast & Furious’ gun running scandal a failure,” snarked the Media Research Center in commenting on the MSNBC interview. “Nor does he see his decision not to prosecute IRS officials after it was discovered that they specifically targeted conservative groups as a failure. When his DOJ authorized a criminal investigation against James Rosen of Fox News for no apparent reason? Nope. Big success there.
Holder apparently doesn’t consider being the only US attorney general ever to be held in contempt of Congress a disappointment either, but he’s still trying for the gun control Oscar with his ATF ammunition ban proposal.
Lucky Kentucky hitchhiker educated
A Henderson County, KY, resident taught a hitchhiker a valuable lesson he should never forget: Never bring a knife to a gunfight.
Police reports said a 45-year-old Corydon resident was driving in the area of Henderson Community College about 1 a.m. in early February when he stopped to pick up a white male hitchhiker.
Once in the vehicle, the man pulled a butcher knife and demanded the driver’s wallet.
Instead of his wallet, the driver displayed a handgun and told the would-be robber to get out of his vehicle. The man jumped out and took off running. Luckily for the hitchhiker, no shots were fired.
Perhaps it was an educational experience for both the armed driver and the hitchhiker.
Capitol Hill target of SyFy shark storm
Members of Congress might say working in Washington is like swimming with sharks, but they now have the opportunity to make that a reality with the chance to appear in “Sharknado 3.”
Citing entertainment industry sources, Hadas Gold, a media commentator for Politico.com, reported that representatives for the campy movie about shark-infested storms from the Syfy network are sending out emails to public relations associates, asking for help contacting “select recognizable Senators and Congressmen, and a few others like Colin Powell and Oliver North.”
The movie has already cast Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and conservative commentator Ann Coulter as president and vice president, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Sharknado 3” will be set in Washington, DC, and will debut in July on the Syfy channel.
Gold reported that a spokesperson for Syfy declined to confirm that the network has reached out to members of Congress.
Hillary’s private emails cloud possible 2016 bid
A pro-Clinton armada of progressive groups led by David Brock – Media Matters For America, American Bridge and Correct The Record – is waging an aggressive effort to dismiss the coverage of Hillary Clinton’s potential violation of federal email requirements as “deceptive,” reported Dylan Byers on Politico-com.
The news of Clinton’s use of personal emails for official business was first reported by The New York Times, but now many traditional and online media outlets are beginning to smell blood in the water surrounding Clinton’s likely 2016 presidential bid.
The Times article, by Washington-based reporter Michael Schmidt, stated that Clinton’s exclusive use of a personal email address at the State Department “may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.”
In reports and press releases Brock’s groups argued that Schmidt’s article neglected to mention that the relevant portions of the Federal Records Act pertaining to such requirement did not go into effect until November 2014, after Clinton’s tenure at State.
Unfortunately for these pro-Hillary groups, the regulations that are relevant to Schmidt’s report – the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements – have been in place since at least 2009, when Clinton became secretary of state.
Asked about the report at a recent White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it was “the responsibility of agencies to preserve those records even when those records exist on a personal email account.”
Next TNS, far from a Clinton shill, reported that a week before becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton set up a private email system that gave her a high level of control over communications, including the ability to erase messages completely, according to security experts who have examined Internet records.
Clinton isn’t universally popular by any means, and the email flap may remind some voters of allegations of secrecy that surrounded Bill Clinton’s White House, particularly Hillary’s battling efforts by some White House advisers to turn over information to Whitewater investigators.
Now, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who leads a special committee looking into the events surrounding the 2012 terrorist attack at a US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, said he will subpoena Clinton’s emails.
