Issa: If Eric Holder is not ‘doomed,’ the Obama administration is

Information surrounding that February 4 letter is not the only part of Issa’s subpoena that Holder has resisted.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting shortly after that early November hearing, Grassley noted that Holder had refused to provide access to 11 witnesses who were subpoenaed for interviews.

“We have requested 12 Justice Department witnesses be made available for transcribed interviews,” Grassley said on November 10. “Despite the department’s promises of good faith cooperation, only one witness has been provided so far — former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke. The department has refused to schedule interviews with any of the other 11 witnesses. That’s not the good faith cooperation I was promised, and it is unacceptable.”

Holder’s May 3 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee also contained inconsistencies that have brought complaints from House Republicans. Issa and Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz both asked the attorney general when he first learned of Operation Fast and Furious. Holder told both he learned of the ATF program just a “few weeks” earlier.

Holder walked that testimony back during his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, a development which some in the GOP now say amounts to an admission that he misled Congress in May.

“I did say a ‘few weeks,’” Holder clarified during his Senate testimony, in response to questions from Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I probably could have said ‘a couple of months.’ I didn’t think the term I said, ‘few weeks,’ was inaccurate based on what happened.”

Leahy didn’t press Holder further. Leahy’s spokeswoman has not answered The Daily Caller’s requests for information about what the Democrat plans to do to hold Holder accountable for acknowledging that he misled Issa’s House committee.

The attorney general is scheduled to appear before the House Judiciary Committee again on December 8. During that hearing a cadre of Repubicans, including both Issa and Chaffetz, are likely to grill Holder about both his competence and his truthfulness.

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