gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 11/23/2008
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Barack Obama's Attorney General candidate Eric Holder was grilled in Congress after the Clinton Administration pardoned FALN terrorists before leaving office. This testimony on the Clinton pardons of the 16 FALN terrorists took place in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Chairman Orrin ...
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
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MARC RICH AND FALN MEAN THAT ERIC HOLDER IS TOAST
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
GATEWAY HAS THE FALN VIDEO. NYT HAS THE MARC RICH OP-ED. THESE EPISODES SEVERELY TAINT HOLDER. I THINK THIS MEANS THAT HOLDER'S NOMINATION IS FATALLY POISONED BY HIS CLINTONIANISM. ISN'T THERE ANOTHER BLACK MAN OBAMA CAN NOMINATE!? (OBAMA OBVIOUSLY WANTS TO NOMINATE THE FIRST BLACK TO BE USA AG.) I BET THERE IS.OBAMA: PULL THE PLUG ON HOLDER.
Red Alert: Confidential witness ready to blow up Clinton and Holder confirmations with dirt on the Marc Rich pardon!
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... why did Mr. Holder not object to the pardon of a fugitive millionaire politically connected to the president? ... Gee, I wonder. The declarant asserts that Denise Rich established a $225 million fund in order to facilitate (purchase?) a Bill Clinton pardon for her ex-husband. Pass the popcorn, Nahanni. Related : Counterpunch : Bill Clinton and the Rich Women -- Fixers Indicated That Hillary Was a Key Player in the Marc Rich Pardon Deal WSJ : The Clintons' Terror Pardons Gateway Pundit : Eric Holder defended the FALN Terrorist Pardons. Labels: Democrats , ...
What do these Things Have in Common? Total Disregard for DOJ Rules!
Firedoglake —
Last night, I was at a holiday party and I was trying to explain my disappointment with the Eric Holder nomination and I rattled off the list of his publicly known questionable activities: Marc Rich pardon, FALN pardon, Chiquita back room deal over paying off terrorists to murder union organizers. And the person I was talking to asked me a good question, he asked what do these seemingly isolated incidents tell me, that makes me so queasy about the Holder nomination?
And I suddenly realized, that I have not been explaining ...
Y2Kyoto: Projected Growth For Buggy Whip Industry
small dead animals —
... working paper while at the University of Chicago Law school. “Extensive regulation of the use of animals.” That's PETA-speak for using government to get everything PETA and the Humane Society of the United States can't get through gentle pressure or not-so-gentle coercion. Not exactly the kind of thing American ranchers, restaurateurs, hunters, and biomedical researchers (to say nothing of ordinary consumers) would like to hear from their next “regulatory czar.” From tax evasion, to terrorist pardons , to granting your goldfish the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of ...
Get Ready for Obama’s Department of ‘Extreme’ Justice
Pajamas Media —
... made by Rich’s wife to the Clinton library, the president’s legal defense fund, Hillary Clinton, and other Democratic campaigns. Rich had fled the U.S. (giving up his citizenship) one step ahead of an indictment in what prosecutors described as “the biggest tax-fraud case in the history of the United States.” As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy says, the Rich pardon “was one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of the Justice Department.” Holder also pushed the pardons of 16 unrepentant and violent Puerto Rican terrorists who had not even sought clemency. ...
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Clinton’s (Coat) Holder
julescrittenden.com 11/19/2008 — For AG! Who won that primary anyway? Help me out, I'm losing count of the Clintonistas who will soon be running the country. Need a chart. Obama to name Clinton pardon rubberstamper as AG. Newsweek:
President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric ...
Eric Holder, AG?
powerlineblog.com 11/19/2008 — News reports indicate that Barack Obama has offered the post of Attorney General to Eric Holder. No surprise there, except perhaps on the part of internet liberals who thought the Obama administration would be different in some significant respect ...
Responding to the National Review on Eric Holder:
volokh.com 11/20/2008 — The National Review Online has posted an editorial criticizing Obama's apparent pick of Eric Holder as Attorney General. NRO's bottom line: "To be blunt, Holder is a terrible selection. If...
Eric Holder on firearms policy:
volokh.com 11/21/2008 — 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...
Eric Holder: A Rebuke Of Bush-League Justice
thinkprogress.org 11/22/2008 — 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 .” ...
Holder On the Geneva Conventions
corner.nationalreview.com 11/25/2008 — Eric Holder on CNN in 2002:
One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future plans might be, where other cells are located; under the Geneva Convention that you ...
When The Time Comes For Eric Holder's Confirmation Hearings . . .
redstate.com 11/25/2008 —
I certainly hope that
George Lardner is asked to appear before the Senate Judiciary
Committee to give his opinion on whether Holder is qualified for
the job, given his involvement in the Marc Rich pardon. In his
testimony, Lardner can point out ...
While We're on the Subject of Holder
corner.nationalreview.com 11/26/2008 — ... I think occasional excerpts from the House Committee on Government Reform's lengthy and enlightening report on the Clinton pardons should be required reading -- given not only President-elect Obama's decision to nominate Holder for AG but the ...
New at Reason: Damon Root on Eric Holder and the Second Amendment
reason.com 11/28/2008 — President-elect Obama's choice of gun control advocate Eric Holder to serve as his attorney general should come as something less than a complete shock, writes Damon Root. But will Holder, who was one of thirteen former Justice Department officials ...
Last Try on Holder Nomination, Part I
firedoglake.com 11/29/2008 —
As you may recall, I expressed some dismay upon learning of the Eric Holder nomination for AG. Back in June of this year, Kirk Murphy had done a piece on Holder's involvement in negotiating a plea deal for Chiquita that included no criminal ...
Why not the worst? part 2 —
Power Line
In the video below, Eric Holder testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the pardons extended by President Clinton to the 16 FALN terrorists in August 1999. Then Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch grills Holder concerning the lack of screening by the Department of Justice in ...
Memo to GOP: Fight Holder —
Slublog
Barack Obama will nominate Eric Holder for Attorney General.
In the past, Holder has advocated gun-grabbing , "reasonable" restrictions on internet speech , and the pardon of billionaire fugitives .
If the GOP is going to push back against any of The One's nominees, this is the one to ...
Right Gearing Up To Attack Holder On Rich Pardon —
TalkLeft
Via Glenn Reynolds , the the Right's brief against Holder - it is the Marc Rich pardon. Interestingly, it does not focus on the Clintons, but on Holder himself: Holder’s role is not in dispute. Without him this travesty would likely not have occurred, as described here : Mr. Holder, ...
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