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At confirmation, two views of Holder emerge

 

Published 1/17/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

On the second day of hearings for the attorney general nominee, ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh hails Holder's professionalism, while a bombing victim's son lambastes nationalist clemencies. > President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general was described on Day Two of his confirmation hearings Friday both as a man of great principle and independence and as a lawman unworthy of the nation's top law enforcement job because he was soft on Puerto Rican nationalists. (link)

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