Eric Holder For AG?

[Annie]

Interesting choice:

The Corner on National Review Online

Eric Holder on Obama's Veep Search Committee [Andy McCarthy]
So Sen. Obama, who is trying to distance himself from the Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, has named to his Vice Presidential Search Committee Eric Holder ... the top Clinton Justice Department official who was deeply enmeshed in the disgraceful pardons granted by President Clinton on his way out the door — pardons which included two Weather Underground terrorists, whose lengthy terrorism sentences were commuted. (And that is to say nothing of Holder's involvement in the infamous pardon of the international fraudster, Marc Rich.)

That's, um, an interesting choice ...
06/04 05:25 PM

 

[Annie]

More on the Rich pardon, where the outrage wasn't just from the Republicans:

Pajamas Media » Why Obama Should Think Twice About Another Clinton Retread

Why Obama Should Think Twice About Another Clinton Retread
Eric Holder played an important role in the much-maligned pardon of fugitive Marc Rich. Should he really be the next attorney general?

Reports are circulating that President-elect Barack Obama is considering Eric Holder as his attorney general. Earlier in the year when Holder was placed on Obama’s VP search committee we looked at Holder’s liabilities. Those are an even greater concern now that he is considered for the country’s top law enforcement job.

You may not always agree with his political analysis but Dick Morris, perhaps better than anyone willing to talk about it, knows his Clinton-ology. Morris reminded us that Eric Holder played a leading role in one of the most infamous events of a presidency filled with infamy: the pardon of billionaire fugitive Marc Rich. Morris dubbed candidate Obama’s decision to select Holder as one of three people charged with vice-presidential vetting his “first clear, serious mistake.”...

No less than Maureen Dowd remarked that on this one the Clintons

perverted the legal system and may have traded a constitutional power for personal benefit. … The Clintons ran a cash-and-carry White House. They were either hawking stuff or carting it off.​

Holder’s role is not in dispute. Without him this travesty would likely not have occurred, as described here:

Mr. Holder, the [Congressional] report says, played a major role, steering Mr. Rich’s lawyers toward Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel. Mr. Rich hired Mr. Quinn, whose Washington contacts and ability to lobby the president made the difference, according to the report. It says that Mr. Holder’s support for the pardon and his failure to alert prosecutors of a pending pardon were just as crucial. …

The panel criticized Mr. Holder’s conduct as unconscionable and cited several problems. It cited his admission last year that he had hoped Mr. Quinn would support his becoming attorney general in a Gore administration.

So to be clear, Holder helped steer the attorney for Rich, a fugitive whose pardon request would likely have been rejected through normal channels due to his status as a fugitive, to the man Holder wanted assistance with in getting his next job. Now there’s a man who knows something about conflicts of interest....

 

[Chris]

Who do you think Bush will pardon on his way out the door?

 

[bk1983]

He is respected in Washington by both Republicans and Democrats, although his record is marred by agreeing to pardon the fugitive Marc Rich at the end of the Clinton administration.

At the time Mr Holder said he was "neutral, leaning towards favourable" on the subject. Mr Clinton later cited that as among the factors that persuaded him to issue the pardon.

Mr Holder has publicly apologised for what he said was a snap decision to which he should have paid more attention. Had he taken more time to review the case, he would have advised against a pardon, he said.

Members of Mr Obama's vetting team have asked Senate Republicans in the past week whether they would support Mr Holder at his confirmation hearings and have been assured that, although questions will be asked, the Rich controversy would not derail his appointment.
Mr Holder is the most prominent African American among the appointments made so far by Mr Obama. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, by immigrants from Barbados, he has spent most of his career in the Justice Department.

Always among the favourites for the post, he has a strong personal rapport with Mr Obama – the two men, both graduates of Columbia University in New York, spoke almost every day during the presidential campaign.

Barack Obama picks Eric Holder as first black attorney general - Telegraph

 

[Red Dawn]

This guy sounds good. This is excellent, strong stuff. Not wishy washy at all.

No more torture. No more illegal wiretapping. No warrantless search and seizure. Close Gitmo. I can get down with that.

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Calling Guantanamo Bay an "international embarrassment," Eric H. Holder, Jr., one of the two remaining appointees on Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, said the next president must close the detention facility and transfer prisoners to military prisons.

In a speech given Friday evening to the American Constitution Society convention in Washington, D.C., Holder charged, "For the last 6 years the position of leader of the Free World has been largely vacant."

We have squandered one of our greatest strengths as a nation," Holder said, taking a partisan swipe at the Bush administration.

He insisted it was disgraceful that the Supreme Court "had to order the president to treat detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention."

In the months and years since 9/11, the Bush administration took many steps that were excessive and unlawful," Holder continued. "We authorized torture and we let fear take precedence over the rule of law, as we overreacted to perceived danger."

In addition to closing Gitmo, Holder insisted the next president should:

* Declare without qualification a policy that the United States will not torture political detainees, engage in forced interrogations or submit people to degrading treatment in prison;

* End all programs, covert or otherwise, to transfer detainees to nations that practice torture;

* Stop domestic search and seizures without warrant and end wiretapping of citizens.


"We have lost our way before," Holder told the 350 attendees at the Friday evening session. "Now we must step back into the shining path envisioned by our founding fathers in such icons of liberty as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights."

"There is evil in the world and we face grave threats to our national security," Holder admitted, "but we must reclaim our moral leadership by no longer letting fear rule our reactions."

 

[Caligirl]

Who do you think Bush will pardon on his way out the door?

That in no way excuses Clinton's pardons. And vice versa.

 

[Caligirl]

"We have lost our way before," Holder told the 350 attendees at the Friday evening session. "Now we must step back into the shining path envisioned by our founding fathers in such icons of liberty as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights."

"There is evil in the world and we face grave threats to our national security," Holder admitted, "but we must reclaim our moral leadership by no longer letting fear rule our reactions."

Those are nice too.

 

[CrimsonWhite]

Who do you think Bush will pardon on his way out the door?

Probably Libby and those two Border Patrol Agents.

 

[bk1983]

Interesting choice:

The Corner on National Review Online

I dont think anyone can outdo Pres Bush for worst AG picks ever, Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzalez?

 

[Ravi]

pardons which included two Weather Underground terrorists, whose lengthy terrorism sentences were commuted

Who?

 

[Annie]

pardons which included two Weather Underground terrorists, whose lengthy terrorism sentences were commuted

Who?

Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg. There were also the FALN pardons...

 

[bigdaddygtr]

I dont think anyone can outdo Pres Bush for worst AG picks ever, Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzalez?

Exactly

Ashcroft loses to a dead guy in Missouri(Carnahan) and then gets a promotion from Bush

Gonzalez is the most scandalous AG in the history of this country. And, between he and Ashcroft, they took on 150 people as US federal prosecutors who graduated from an unaccredited Law school started by Pat Buchanon. Absolutely disgusting

 

[Ravi]

Well, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this choice. It does make me wonder, though, if there are any politicians or public figures in existence that the other side would not object to?

 

[dilloduck]

Well, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this choice. It does make me wonder, though, if there are any politicians or public figures in existence that the other side would not object to?

May as well have Judge Judy.

 

[Chris]

Probably Libby and those two Border Patrol Agents.

As well as Ted Stevens, Cheney, and Rove.

 

[CrimsonWhite]

As well as Ted Stevens, Cheney, and Rove.

Probably.

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

This guy sounds good. This is excellent, strong stuff. Not wishy washy at all.

No more torture. No more illegal wiretapping. No warrantless search and seizure. Close Gitmo. I can get down with that.

ROFLMNAO... Nothing says "FUCK YOU HUMAN RIGHTS" like the advocates of the rights of MASS MURDERING TERRORIST

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Calling Guantanamo Bay an "international embarrassment," Eric H. Holder, Jr., one of the two remaining appointees on Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, said the next president must close the detention facility and transfer prisoners to military prisons.

Nothing new there... The Clinton regime was a big believer in using the necessarily high standards of the civilian judiciary to try Islamic Radical terrorists... and then incarcerate them in US prisons where the already disenfranchised homies will be exposed to such virulent strains of radical Islam...

Like Collective bargaining, 'WHATS THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN? It's not like it’s going to destroy every industry in which it infects...'

So what IS the worst that can happen where we allow the ideological left to bring the true believing PRACTICING Islamic terrorist and house them in US military prisons? I mean all that is there are pissed off people with really bad attitudes that HATE the US military... with varying degrees of training and a solid understanding of the current practices and policies of the US Military...

I can't really see a problem there...

And just because any trial wherein intelligence methods and practices will be required to be exposed, to produce evidence of the methods and practices to determine if any 'rights' were violated in the gathering of the evidence or capture and detainment of these mass murdering fucks... which the intelligence agencies will rightfully and HOPEFULLY refuse to do; which will result in the acquittal of most if not all of the GITMO terrorist herd. Which will naturally result in more terrorist acts against the US; thus more deaths of more innocent Americans and with any luck... some leftists.

So yeah... these morons are just ALL OVER IT! The last batch gave us 9-11... just IMAGINE the catastrophe we're gonna suffer from 8 yrs of a Marxist Muslim cutting slack to and otherwise appeasing those blood-thirsty fools.

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

As well as Ted Stevens, Cheney, and Rove.

Oh THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!

Chris old girl... I will send you a cashiers check for $10,000 for every single solitary valid charge you can list for ANY ONE of those you've asserted as needing a pardon.

(Enjoy this one friends... nothing exposes a fool like the airing of their own closest held feelings...)

 

[bk1983]

Oh THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!

Chris old girl... I will send you a cashiers check for $10,000 for every single solitary valid charge you can list for ANY ONE of those you've asserted as needing a pardon.

(Enjoy this one friends... nothing exposes a fool like the airing of their own closest held feelings...)

Are you from Nigeria?

 

[Old Rocks]

Nah, Ol' Publius is from that alternative dimension where every reality is subjective.