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thinkprogress.org - 11/22/2008

Eric Holder: A Rebuke Of Bush-League Justice

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holder.jpg The New York Times reports today that President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team “signaled to Eric H. Holder Jr., a senior official in the Justice Department in the Clinton administration, that he will be chosen as attorney general .” While the Obama transition team denied that ...

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Obama Considering Commission On Bush Admin Torture
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... In 2004, for example, Holder told an American Constitution Society conference, "The notion that the Department of Justice would in essence sanction the use of torture as part of the President's plenary power over military operations is as wrong as it is shortsighted. This position flies in the face of the entire history of American law, helping to create a climate in which unnecessarily abusive conduct can somehow be considered legitimate." ...

Obama Considering Commission On Bush Admin Torture
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A Gitmo Commission?
Newshoggers.com — ... In 2004, for example, Holder told an American Constitution Society conference, "The notion that the Department of Justice would in essence sanction the use of torture as part of the President's plenary power over military operations is as wrong as it is shortsighted. This position flies in the face of the entire history of American law, helping to create a climate in which unnecessarily abusive conduct can somehow be considered legitimate." ...

Rolling Back the Fog at Justice
democracyarsenal.org — ... reiterated that the Justice Department's role is to, as he said today, "ensure not only that the nation is safe but also that our laws and traditions are respected." This is the critical policy issue facing Holder at Justice: how not only to roll back the abuses that occurred at Justice under the Bush administration, but also prosecute and protect us from terror while staying within the confines of the law and the constitution. On this litany of issues, he has intimated to exude the absolute antithesis of the Bush culture at Justice: ...

Leahy: ?Torture will be a major issue?; ?All that?s going to be reviewed.?
The Hollywood Liberal — ... continue to seek a final reckoning of what happened behind the White House orchestration of the firings of the U.S. attorneys and also the adoption of the policies of torture? LEAHY: Personally I would like to know exactly what happened because — more of a past is prologue kind of thing. I would like to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. Torture is going to be a major issue. Torture is going to be a major issue. … And so all that’s going to be reviewed. Watch it: Leahy — who praised Obama’s pick of Eric Holder to lead the Justice Department — condemned Bush’s torture ...