House Committee Votes To Hold US Attorney General In Contempt of Congress

Government dysfunction in the US has reached a new high.  The vote by the GOP led Committee will go to full House that will vote on party lines.  The US Attorney General will then be required to prosecute himself.  There is no precedent for holding the highest legal official in the US in contempt of Congress. One would expect that it would only happen under extraordinary circumstances. That is not the case. The contempt charge resulted from the death of one US agent. He was killed by a weapon that was lost during a sting operation that sought to track a shipment of weapons to Mexico.  The Justice Department gave the Committee thousands of documents that pertained to the sting operation.  The Committee is demanding documents about what happened after the agent was killed.  They claim that this extraordinary contempt charge is necessary to provide justice for the agent's death.  One might expect that it has more to do with the 2012 election campaign.