Lynch is another squirrel paraded out by the Administration. Holder has no intention of leaving.
Via NOLA Com
Senate Republicans blocked a Senate Judiciary Committee vote Thursday (February 12) on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Loretta Lynch for attorney general.
Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said he wasn’t satisfied with some of her written answers and would give her more time to respond. Over the protest of committee Democrats, he put off a vote until Feb. 26.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who had previously opposed her nomination, also used the committee meeting Tuesday to raise questions about a monetary settlement reached in Lynch’s New York City U.S. Attorney’s office in 2012 with the HSBC bank over alleged money laundering scheme involving Mexican drug cartels.
HSBC was charged in 2012 with helping drug dealers launder money and with illegally completing transactions for clients in Iran, Libya, Syria and other countries under U.S. economic sanctions. Vitter said he has been in touch with a whistleblower who is a former HSBC employee.
The bank entered into a settlement agreement for $1.26 billion and paid another $665 million in penalties. Vitter suggests criminal penalties were in order.[…]
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said he supports Lynch, but that he thought there was nothing unreasonable about the delay in the committee vote on her nomination to replace Eric Holder as attorney general.