WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder is charging that he’s become a “proxy” for Republican attacks against President Obama in an election year.
“I’ve become a symbol of what they don’t like about the positions this Justice Department has taken,” Holder told The Washington Post in his first interview since the House last week voted him in contempt.
Holder said Republican congressional figures have used a failed gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious to attack a wide range of administration policies.
Holder also says he feels California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is singling him out for scrutiny.
The GOP-run House voted to cite Holder for contempt of Congress in a fight over documents related to Fast and Furious. Holder says it’s naive to think that vote was merely about documents.
“I am also a proxy for the president,” he said.