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Obama Attorney General Pick Eric Holder Facing Increasing Criticism

 

Published 1/10/2009 by Carrie Johnson at Wash Post Obama Administration

Eric H. Holder Jr. is facing increasing resistance to his bid to become the next attorney general, emerging from President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet nominees as the prime target of Senate Republicans, both because of troubling episodes during his service in the Clinton administration and because... (link)

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