WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department said Friday it will not prosecute or investigate Attorney General Eric Holder following the House vote holding him in contempt.
In a letter to Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said the actions involved in the contempt vote do not "constitute a crime," Fox News reported. The House voted Thursday, mostly along party lines, to hold the attorney general in contempt for refusing to produce all the documents demanded by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the Fast and Furious "gun-walking" operation.