Quite frankly it is very obvious Murdoch is running the Republican circus in the House Judicial Committee. Sensenbrenner stated if he didn't receive accountability from the Justice Department stating Congress was lied to an impeachment would follow and he abruptly closed his microphone and questioning..
Rep. Conyers stepped in along with another Congressman for clarification on Sensenbrenner's statement about impeachment on procedural grounds and Committee Chair Lamar Smith refused the procedural clarification. It was manipulation by Smith.
The Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are having a difficult time facing facts, because the fact is Attorney General Holder is conducting an exemplary Justice Department and to quote Committee Member Bermin the most transparent Department ever witnessed.
The Republicans on the Justice Committee are character assassinating anyone within reasonable PUBLIC RELATIONS attention, including Justice Kagan. The focus on Justice Kagan is due to the heat on Clarence Thomas and his political exploits. I suppose Scalia is in there somewhere too for their coziness with the Health Insurance Industry. Basically, the Republicans are wasting their salaries on campaign strategies of character assassination rather than doing the people's business.
Both Representative Conyers and Representative Berman asked Attorney General Holder what Congress could and should do to work with the Justice Department for securing the southern border of the USA.
Attorney General Holder stated, the Justice Department needed funding for Border Programs including 'Boots on the Ground' (my words, not his) that was suppose put 14 teams into service, but, due to budgetary problems only 7 or 8 have been deployed. Attorney General Holder also stated, legislation honoring the Second Amendment needed to be crafted to provide better legal leverage and tools to the efforts at the USA southern border. AG Holder stated there were four border states that would require tighter gun laws on "Long Guns" that would allow for the processing of their sales as if they were handguns. AG Holder also asked for productive dialogue with the members of Congress to be sure the laws were strengthened in any legislative effort and the Justice Department could provide that expertise.
I thought the morning meeting of the House Judiciary Committee went fairly well and AG Holder is unflappable even when harassed by Republicans for their 'news bites' for FOX.
The committee convenes again at 1:15 PM.
