West Wing plays Holder-Folder

[Thanks to Dave]

NYT: White House Wants Holder to Resign

Newsmax – 6/2/13

Presidential aides are privately admitting to a growing frustration inside the White House with Attorney General Eric Holder’s political ineptness in the press leak investigations and are hoping the embattled appointee will resign from office, The New York Times reports.

“The White House is apoplectic about him, and has been for a long time,” said an anonymous Democrat source, identified only as a former government employee who acknowledged the White House staffers in question are his friends.

President Barack Obama’s advisers are frustrated with Holder’s inability to foresee problems arising from his approval of a subpoena naming a Fox News reporter as a co-conspirator in an espionage investigation. Now Congress is looking at whether Holder lied under oath when he testified last month that he knew nothing about the incident.

Additionally, Holder has become a lightening rod for criticism for pulling the phone records of 100 Associated Press reporters in another polarizing investigation.

“How hard would it be to anticipate that the AP would be unhappy?” the former official said. “And then they haven’t defended their position.”

The New York Times article highlighted a rare glimpse of the interworking of the White House social circle, stating that Holder’s “saving grace through years of controversies has been the friendship of two women close to Mr. Obama” – First Lady Michelle Obama, who is good friends with Holder’s wife, and Valerie Jarrett, the president’s senior adviser.

In addition to the press leak scandals, Holder has come under attack for his agency’s participation in the botched gun-trafficking investigation “Fast and Furious,” for which Holder was found in contempt of Congress.

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Hat tip to Dave for the article.

My comments: So is a circular firing squad forming? But no one told Holder’s mobile defense team. Schumer has come out saying there is no grounds for him to resign.  Mixed signals? — Why certainly!

Or is the regime trying to be on both sides of the issue, once again? Trying to pacify their both critics and base?  And why the leak about it? Holder better investigate that.

It is hard to forget an entire caucus in congress staging a walkout and calling it racism to hold Eric Holder accountable — then over Fast and Furious investigations. Still he was held in contempt for his failure to allow congress to do its job. He seemed to be provoking a Constitutional crisis then.

After all the radical times and “racism” accusations, hard to believe they have a problem with Holder now. I thought he was perfect. I kind of enjoy watching Schumer and company try to defend the indefensible. Is it a trial balloon… or just more theater? Maybe their bluff face needs work.

I will await the next story how Eric Holder, and Obama by extension, are being victimized, picked on, harassed, and railroaded. (precisely the tactics used on anyone who gets in their way) Then I will know how serious it all is.

Last week he failed to bond with the media on having an “off-the-record” session with media. Apparently there was no food and refreshments… few takers.