Former AG Holder was held in contempt of Congress.
Correct.
After Holder met with Chairman Darrell "Grand Theft Auto" Issa ... and offered to provide him with the documents he was seeking.
On June 19, 2012, Holder met with Issa in person to discuss the requested documents. Holder said he offered to provide the documents to Issa on the condition that Issa provided his assurance that doing so would satisfy the committee subpoenas and resolve the dispute.
Issa - playing election year politics - rejected the offer.
That same day Obama asserted Executive Privilege over the additional documents the committee was seeking.
What happened with that? Nothing
Not exactly ... the referral was sent to DOJ and DOJ declined to prosecute because: 1. Executive Privilege (essentially at that point Holder was upholding the EP claim and carrying out his Constitutional duty), and 2. it was clearly political, playing election year politics.
Ultimately DOJ IG - after a 19 month investigation - cleared Holder of any wrongdoing:
In September 2012, after a nineteen-month review, the
United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General cleared the Attorney General of any wrongdoing with regard to Fast and Furious, stating that there was "no evidence" that Holder knew about the operation before early 2011. The report did cite fourteen lower ranking officials for possible disciplinary action.
[147] Holder responded to the internal investigation, saying "It is unfortunate that some were so quick to make baseless accusations before they possessed the facts about these operations – accusations that turned out to be without foundation and that have caused a great deal of unnecessary harm and confusion."
That left only the civil matter in Federal court, where The Repugnants™ were suing for the documents and asked the Judge overseeing that the case to hold Holder in contempt of court:
In August 2014, federal judge
Amy Berman Jackson ordered the Justice Department to provide Congress with a list of the previously withheld documents.
[150] In October 2014,
Jackson rejected a House bid to hold Holder in contempt of court, stating that it was "entirely unnecessary."
[151]
The reason being:
... and said it was evident that she was considering the government's motion to lift her prior order. "Under those circumstances, the Court finds no basis to hold defendant in contempt," she wrote.
Ultimately what happened:
In January 2016, Jackson tossed out Obama's executive privilege claims but stressed that her ruling wasn't based on the merits of the claim, but instead on the fact that many of the documents had by then become public as part of the 2012 inspector general's report.
Yet another sad, pathetic chapter in the Republican Whack-a-doodle conspiracy theories novella (
"He musta known about Fast and Furious !")
The DC judges take care of the Dems.
No, they follow the law.
... which kinda sucks if you're a Republican.
Her court, her rule on the law.
BTW - the part that you (
oh-so-conveniently) left out:
However, in a ruling Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson also denied Holder's request for an indefinite stay of her prior order that the attorney general must turn over any "non-privileged" documents the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed as part of an investigation into the botched gunrunning investigation. The judge previously ruled that Holder must give the panel any documents that are not both predecisional and deliberative in nature.
Yeah ... Judge Jackson is totally in the tank for Holder and the Obama Administration.
Good luck selling that little bit of cray cray ...
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