"Collusion, If Not Outright Criminality, At Eric Holder's
DOJ"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues.
© Copyright Sunday, February
8, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, February 4, 2015
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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best
forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny." Thomas Jefferson
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Given the Senate confirmation hearings for U. S. Attorney General
Obama nominee Loretta Lynch, this article is even more relevant.
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U. S. Attorney General,
Oath of Office: "I will
support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of
evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office
on which I am about to enter So help me God."
U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder signed the above Oath of
Office when he took office. The reader can decide after reading this
article, if Holder has been faithful to his Oath, or is just another crooked
politician obsessed with power.
Anyone who has been paying attention to the news is aware that
U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder was held in Contempt of Congress for failing
to produce documents related to AT&F's Fast and Furious Gun Running
Operation that got one of our Border Agents and a bunch of Mexicans
killed. The U. S. House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee
requested the documents from Holder in its investigation of Fast and
Furious. Instead of producing the documents, Holder called on the White
House (Obama) to cover for him by exercising presidential executive privilege,
thereby burying the evidence. If any citizen did this, it would be called
obstruction of justice for which the perpetrator could face considerable jail
time.
Now you would think that being held in Contempt of Congress
would be akin to being dishonorably discharged from military service. But
Eric Holder doesn't seem to mind and there doesn't seem to be any interest in
the press to call him on it. That too could be called a cover up by the
news media that is supposed to be charged with exposing corruption and wrong
doing by government officials.
Fast and Furious isn't the only scandal that surrounds Eric
Holder. His Department of Justice (DOJ) refused to investigate the Black Panther
voting intimidation event. Holder and the DOJ have injected the agency
into state law regarding voting identification and the handling of illegal
aliens. He even challenged Louisiana over a successful charter school
program for mostly black children. In most cases, his and the DOJ's
involvement were directly related to race, as it was in the Treyvon Martin case
in Florida and the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, MO. Now why would Holder want
to inject race into his judicial duties? Could it be because he is black?
Lest we not forget that Holder was the attorney for the
infamous tax evader and criminal Marc Rich that President William Jefferson
Clinton pardoned when he left office. Marc Rich was on the FBI's 10 most
wanted list. Why was he pardoned and what was Holder's involvement?
Those who follow these issues already know most of the
foregoing information. But what we are about to relay regarding Eric
Holder and the DOJ is not generally known. You certainly won't find it in
the mainstream media. This new information plays into what appears to be
open and notorious criminality and cover up by Holder and the DOJ that he
runs. Holder is scheduled to resign in a few weeks, if the Senate confirms
his replacement. There are some who believe his resignation was prompted
by this case. What has gone on at DOJ under Holder represents the stark
manifestation of what Thomas Jefferson warned us about over 200 years ago.
This case against Holder and his DOJ involves allegations of
concealing evidence, threats against witnesses and secret surveillance of
witnesses and attorneys, in what appears to be an outright government conspiracy
in a cover up to protect their own in a relatively minor case. These
allegations aren't coming from a private citizen they are being levied by a
senior judge in the U. S. Court of Federal Claims, one Francis M. Allegra.
The good judge has called the DOJ's action "fraud on the court!"
In court documents the judge went further and described what
"fraud on the court" meant. "[F]raud on the court consists of
conduct: 1. On the part of an officer of the court; 2. That is
directed to the ‘judicial machinery’ itself; 3. That is intentionally
false, willfully blind to the truth, or is in reckless disregard for the
truth; 4. That is positive averment or is concealment when one is under
duty to disclose; 5. That deceives the court."
All this occurred in what many consider to be a relatively
low-level civil lawsuit by an ex agent of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Agency-AT&F (the plaintiff) who sued the agency for failure to
properly investigate an arson attack on his home that destroyed it and
endangered his family. He also charged AT&F with reneging on
protection agreements over death threats he received. The arson attack and
the death threats resulted from AT&F withdrawing his cover identity
following investigative reporting he did on the Hells Angels.
Judge Allegra was so peeved over the actions of DOJ that he
issued an order to DOJ barring seven of DOJ's attorneys from filing any more
legal documents in the case and directly notified Attorney General Eric Holder
and the assistant AG, James Cole, of his order. At the same time AT&F
suddenly, without explanation, closed its investigation into an AT&F agent
who allegedly had threatened a key witness in the case.
The cover up gets worse from there. The DOJ then filed a
sealed motion with the Judge challenging its attorneys being barred from the
case. The judge unsealed the motion and ordered the DOJ to justify it.
Then the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) told the judge they
were not going to investigate the alleged fraudulent conduct of the seven DOJ
attorneys. DOJ documents show that the DOJ was vigorously defending the
seven accused attorneys and called them upstanding civil servants and in good
standing with the bar.
As more documents from the case surface in the public record,
it is clear that top officials at AT&F and the DOJ colluded to obstruct
justice and in fact covered up evidence and the misconduct of the DOJ attorneys
and agents at AT&F. There is still some speculation going on in the
case, which is far from settled for the plaintiff, but that educated speculation
is based on the existing paper trail.
What may shed light on why Holder and the DOJ were so eager to
quash the case and cover up the evidence is that the plaintiff knew a great deal
more about Fast and Furious than the AT&F or DOJ wanted exposed. The
DOJ and AT&F continued to sully the plaintiff as someone who would torch his
home and endanger his own family to get money from the government. Someone
at AT&F or the DOJ even put "pressure" on the plaintiff's attorney and he
had to withdraw from the case. To learn more about this case of
corruption and collusion, we encourage the reader to log onto the following
link: http://www.examiner.com/
In our first 2015 article on corruption we wrote:
"Without discipline, accountability and oversight, a child, an
adult, a group of adults, or an institutional entity (like government) will
slowly increase or exert his, her, or its power over time, even if there are
laws or rules that restrict that power." With these series
of articles we are doing on corruption in government, we are trying to get the
readers to see that government, at all levels, is arrogant, corrupt, almost
lawless and out of control because the people have been looking the other way
for far too long.
The reason that U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the
executives at AT&F can get away with what they have done in the above case
and other situations, is because the people have allowed government to increase
its power beyond the limits placed on it by our constitution. But a plan,
a design, a blue print, a law, or a constitution is only as good as the
willingness of the people to support and defend them, no matter what the
cost. So far, most Americans have not been willing to defend their
constitution from government abuse and corruption because they probably fear the
cost is too high. In essence, they FEAR the government.
In the coming weeks we will reveal more about how the American
people can reclaim their freedom from those who abuse and corrupt it, with the
specific goal of restoring integrity and honor in government and in our
institutions. We are already moving ahead aggressively. To get a
sneak preview of where we are headed, log onto:
The system we have designed is relatively easy to accomplish
and comes with very little expense or personal risk. It could also be fun if the
individual gets a kick out of exposing corrupt politicians. In fact, this
system will only take a very small fraction of the population to accomplish. It
is our intent to once again strike fear into the hearts of all politicians,
judges and bureaucrats because we will show them that they should once again
fear the people instead of the other way around.
But then of course, if no one is willing to step up to the
plate out of fear, apathy, disinterest, or they are trying to protect their own
little bubble from government attention, then there is little chance America
will be saved from committing national suicide.
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NOTE: The
foregoing article represents the opinion of the author and is not necessarily
shared by the owners, representatives, employees, or agents of the
publisher.
Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org),
an advocate and consultant for urban and rural
landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington
State. He can be reached for comment at info@narlo.org.
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