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thinkprogress.org - 11/22/2008
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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 .” ...
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Eric Holder: A Rebuke Of Bush-League Justice
campaignspot.nationalreview.com - 11/21/2008
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Back in 1998, when testifying before Congress about
the need for a federal hate crimes law, then...
Deputy-Attorney General Eric Holder was asked for amp... . . .
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A Good Question For Eric Holder
campaignspot.nationalreview.com - 11/20/2008
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Eric Holder: A Rebuke Of Bush-League Justice
Think Progress —
... “We must declare without qualification that it is the law, policy, and practice of the United States government that we do not torture people and we do not subject people to cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.” [ACS Conference, 6/14/08] ...
Will Eric Holder Shift Justice Away From The Bush Model?
TPMMuckraker —
... success and respect for civil liberties can -- and in fact, they must -- coexist. In achieving victory, we must not lose our nation's soul.
He added:
And we must also be mindful of the tactics we employ because the contemporary world, and ultimately history, will judge us only--not only by the magnitude of our inevitable victory, but also by the manner in which it was won.
And this June, in another speech at ACS, he spoke out against the Justice Department's stance on torture and the Geneva Convention:
I ...
Rolling Back the Fog at Justice
democracyarsenal.org —
... “We must declare without qualification that it is the law, policy,
and practice of the United States government that we do not torture
people and we do not subject people to cruel, inhumane, or degrading
treatment.” [ACS Conference, 6/14/08] ...
Kyl Falsely Claims Holder Doesn’t Support Patriot Act, Says He Shouldn’t Be AG If He’s Against Torture
Think Progress —
... of the law, saying in June that he never thought he “would see that a President would act in direct defiance of Federal law by authorizing warentless NSA surveillance of American citizens.” ...
Obama refuses to rule out investigation of the left’s alleged ‘crimes of the Bush administration’
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... “We must declare without qualification that it is the law, policy, and practice of the United States government that we do not torture people and we do not subject people to cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.” [ACS Conference, 6/14/08] ...
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