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Eric Holder's Massive Ineptness

Brian1773 Wrote: Mar 19, 2010 9:07 PM

Mr Holder should never have been appointed to this job. He has way too much baggage left over from his disappointing, bordering on criminal behavior while an Assistant AG under the Clintons. Not only did he take part in pardons of the least worthy, but many say he lied about it in Judiary hearings held to find out what he knew about them. I don't think there is now any doubt, he sought this job to get even with those he thinks wronged him in the past. Eric, get some courage up and step down. There is too much important work to be done there, and you can't see or think clearly.

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Eric Holder's Massive Ineptness

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder is controversial on the left for preserving much of the Bush administration's legal structure for conducting the war on terror. He is controversial on the right for overturning portions of that structure in ways that seem both clueless and reckless. But Holder is the most endangered member of the Obama Cabinet for a different reason: Just about everything he has touched has backfired.

The list is oddly impressive. First, there was the decision to release Bush-era interrogation memos and reopen the investigation of CIA interrogators after they already had been cleared by career...

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