Gingrich urges Obama to fire AG Holder

President Obama should fire Attorney General Eric Holder for appointing a special prosecutor to investigate potential CIA abuses of terrorist detainees, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) wrote Friday.

Gingrich, in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, said that the president should dismiss Holder unless the attorney general resigns.

“In the latest skirmish in the Democratic Party’s war on the CIA, Attorney General Eric Holder has failed to uphold this fundamental public trust. And for that, there should be consequences,” Gingrich wrote. “If Holder and his senior team won’t do the right thing and resign their positions, Obama should do the right thing and fire them.”

Holder had attracted Republican ire earlier this week for appointing a special prosecutor to investigate abuses that had taken place during the Bush administration.

The White House had emphasized that although the president believes that CIA officials shouldn’t face prosecution for following the advice of the prior administration’s lawyers, Holder would be able to decide on the special prosecutor independently.

“In the latest skirmish in the Democratic Party’s war on the CIA, Attorney General Eric Holder has failed to uphold this fundamental public trust,” Gingrich said. “And for that, there should be consequences.”

(Hat tip: GOP12)