Eric Holder Should Go Argues Dennis Ross

U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fl, took to the pages of the Lakeland Ledger, Brandon Patch and Lake Wales Daily Ridge on Wednesday to argue that President Barack Obama dismiss U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder who is at the center of a host of controversies. Other Republicans in the Florida delegation, including U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and freshman U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, have been calling for Holders resignation.

Ross slams Holder on a number of fronts in his op-ed:

I urge President Obama to remove Eric Holder from his position as Attorney General.

The Department of Justice has forced journalists to hand over its records and has allowed broad seizure of phone records of all Verizon customers. And we're now reading reports of the DOJ allowing the National Security Agency to broadly collect records of Internet history.

These reports are frightening. We are a government of the people and by the people. Why is the DOJ allowing at least 121 million Americans which is also one-third of the population to be subjected to this overreach? Common decency says this shouldn't happen.

I agree that America needs to be safe, but this is too far. Is the Department of Justice suggesting that they suspect every Verizon customer of terrorist activities?

Some will argue that President George W. Bush and the Patriot Act started this. The Patriot Act requires that the records be relevant to the investigation. Conducting surveillance on all records from every Verizon subscriber goes far beyond the scope of the Patriot Act.

Congress has the responsibility and authority of oversight of the federal agencies. As a member of Congress, I take my job seriously. The president should as well.

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