When Congress in 2012 leveled a contempt charge at Attorney General Eric Holder, did the Obama administration wheedle and plead to make it go away? Or did they just dismiss the whole thing as a political stunt? I see that the Republicans were in federal court in 2014 over the issue, and Amy Berman Jackson ruled that contempt was out of order but that Holder must still turn over certain documents relating to “Fast and Furious” (which I believe was initially organized by the Bush DOJ) to the House committee. Holder later resigned and went back to his old law firm. I don’t know what happened on the Fast and Furious issue. Probably Darrell Issa and his cohorts just continued to look foolish and vindictive. Or they dropped that investigation to pursue the Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi charades.
I see there are a number of articles out there comparing these events. Here’s one: