corner.nationalreview.com - 11/19/2008
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One of my favorite Eric Holder stories involves his role in the Justice Department's handling of the Elian Gonzalez case. In the period before armed agents seized the child, the Justice Department had been leaking its intention to avoid any sort of armed intervention. It would all be done ...
volokh.com - 11/21/2008
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Earlier this year, Eric Holder--along with Janet Reno
and several other former officials from the Clinton Department...
of Justice--co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief...
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Eric Holder on firearms policy:
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 Is Just The Sort Of Two-Faced Liar A President Like Obama Needs
Say Anything —
... Byron York relates a story about Obama’s pick for Attorney General that pretty much sums up who the guy is in a nutshell. It has to do with a bit of duplicity Holder engaged in with regard to the Elian Gonzalez scandal. ...
A Bit More on Holder
The Agitator —
National Review relays two troubling stories on Obama AG nominee Eric Holder’s role in the Elian Gonzalez case.
Here’s the first:
In the period before armed agents seized the child, the Justice Department had been leaking its intention to avoid any sort of armed intervention. It would all be done quietly, they suggested. When top Department officials were asked about it, they said nothing to change that impression. About two weeks before the raid, Tim Russert asked Holder, “You wouldn’t send a SWAT team in the dark of night ...
A Bit More on Eric Holder
Hit & Run —
... National Review relays two troubling stories on Obama AG nominee Eric Holder’s role in the Elian Gonzalez case. Here’s the first: In the period before armed agents seized the child, the Justice Department had been leaking its intention to avoid any sort of armed intervention. It would all be done quietly, they suggested. When top Department officials were asked about it, they said nothing to change that impression. About two weeks before the raid, Tim Russert asked Holder, “You wouldn’t send a SWAT team in ...
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Obama Appoints Castro's Lawyer as White House Counsel
americanthinker.com 11/19/2008 — Among the throng of Clinton regime retreads recruited for the Obama administration we find Gregory Craig. The media mostly has omitted mention of Craig's role as chief facilitator for Fidel Castro's shanghaiing of Elian Gonzalez.
Eric Holder's Bold Crackdown on Illegal Immigration
corner.nationalreview.com 11/20/2008 — Looking over some of Eric Holder's career greatest hits, I had forgotten how Holder and then-Attorney General Janet Reno claimed to have the authority to seize Elian Gonzalez. In retrospect, it seems like a joke made for Mickey Kaus -- they declared ...
Eric Holder is "is the second coming of Janet Reno." —
Althouse
Says the first commenter on David Kopel's post that stresses Holder's "strong support" of gun control -- he co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller -- and his role in the "night-time kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez."
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The record of Eric Holder, who has reportedly accepted an offer to become the next attorney general, shows that he doesn't adhere to the standards of justice that Democrats have crowed about, writes Andy McCarthy. On the day before federal agents dramatically seized Elian Gonzalez, the ...