Letter: House committee expects answers
Congressman Ron DeSantis
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Dear Editor:
Today, Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee. My questions of the Attorney General focused on the following three issues:
1. The Attorney General’s testimony regarding the AP leak story was completely insufficient. Although this was by his own admission the most significant leak case in 40 years and something that put the American people “at risk,” Holder does not remember when he recused himself, has no record of recusing himself, and never told his superior that he recused himself in a matter of national security.
2. The President and Press Secretary are wrong to refer to the IRS as an “independent agency.” The IRS is an executive branch agency whose head is appointed by the President and who reports to the Secretary of the Treasury. Indeed, the IRS Commissioner can, by statute, be removed from office at the will of the President. Holder would not concede that the IRS is an executive branch agency. An independent agency exists outside the executive branch and its head is not subject to presidential control. This is important because the IRS must ultimately be held accountable by the President himself.
3. The pursuit of justice against those who committed the terrorist attacks in Benghazi on 9-11-12 needs to be detailed. Nobody has yet been brought to justice and it is not clear to me whether the administration is treating this as a law enforcement matter or a military matter. It seems to me that those jihadists are unlawful, alien enemy combatants, not common criminals who should be tried in U.S. courts.
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