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Eric Holder. Lawyer For The Death Squad Terrorists’ Paymasters: Our Next Attorney General?
firedoglake.com - 12/1/2008
Eric Holder. Lawyer For The Death Squad Terrorists’ Paymasters: Our Next Attorney General?
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Chiquita Banana And The Cannibals When high-powered attorney Eric Holder, partner in the high-power DC law firm Covington & Burling, chose to allow American Lawyer to profile him for a trial balloon about making him AG, he allowed American Lawyer to watch him work for Chiquita. While ...

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democracyarsenal.org:  Rolling Back the Fog at Justice

Holder, High Achiever Poised to Scale New Heights
nytimes.com - 12/1/2008
Holder, High Achiever Poised to Scale New Heights
— nytimes.com — Queens native Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s expected choice for attorney general, developed a public servant’s conscience during the racial conflicts of the 1960s. > (more) Holder, High Achiever Poised to Scale New Heights

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online.wsj.com - 12/4/2008
Eric Holder's Politics
— online.wsj.com — [Review & Outlook] AP Eric Holder and Barack Obama. (more) Eric Holder's Politics

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For Justice Nominee, a Pardon Is Back in Focus
nytimes.com - 12/2/2008
For Justice Nominee, a Pardon Is Back in Focus
— nytimes.com — Eric H. Holder Jr., Barack Obama’s choice to be attorney general, was more deeply involved in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich than his supporters acknowledge. > (more) For Justice Nominee, a Pardon Is Back in Focus

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Rolling Back the Fog at Justice
democracyarsenal.org — Plenty of others have dissected Eric Holder's record, both in substance and rhetoric, so I'm going to try and steer clear from digging too deep into his past. But one thing has become clear in the reaction Holder's nomination, and indeed within reaction to most of Obama's nominees: these are seasoned professionals with long track records who couldn't be further from the cronyism and malfeasance that occurred under President Bush. But one problem with putting seasoned professionals into these posts is that long track-records don't tend to ...

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firedoglake.com 11/24/2008 — [ Originally published June 7, 2008 when Holder's name was proposed for AG ] Chiquita Banana And The Cannibals This week American Lawyer floated a trial balloon for the next Attorney General . The fluff job began with a casual vignette that ...
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