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Eric Holder Resigns Week After Judge Orders Release of Fast and Furious Information
Hardly a week after a U.S. Court Judge ordered the Department of Justice to turn over a list of documents relating to the botched ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-running operation, Attorney General Eric Holder has announced his resignation. The documents of concern are the same ones Attorney General Eric Holder was charged with contempt, by the U.S. House, for refusing to turn over to investigators.
The decision to resign his post was reported by NPR:
Two sources familiar with the decision tell NPR that Holder, 63, intends to leave the Justice Department as soon as his successor is confirmed, a process that could run through 2014 and even into next year. A former U.S. government official says Holder has been increasingly “adamant” about his desire to leave soon for fear that he otherwise could be locked in to stay for much of the rest of President Obama’s second term.
Eric Holder has been long-associated with the scandalous ‘Fast and Furious’ operation that led to the procurement of U.S. arms by violent Mexican drug cartels. Earlier this year, in an attempt to maintain control over the facts, Holder was charged with contempt for refusing to turn …
