nytimes.com - 1/15/2009
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Eric H. Holder Jr., the nominee for attorney general, also came under close questioning for his role in the pardoning of Marc Rich. >
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/15/2009
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Not that it's likely, but Brad Schlozman may
want to hope that Eric Holder's confirmation somehow gets...
derailed. That's because Holder just told the Senate Judiciary committee that he wants to reconsider the Bush Justice Department's curious ...
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Holder: "I Will Review That Determination" Not To ...
thinkprogress.org - 1/16/2009
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During his confirmation hearing today, Attorey General nominee
Eric Holder unequivocally rejected torture . “No one is...
above the law,” Holder said repeatedly during the hearing. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) could not fathom that an Attorney ...
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Cornyn’s Absurd Hypothetical For Holder: What If ...
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... While the Senate Republicans are busy trying to flay Obama's attorney general nominee, Eric Holder, over the decade-old Marc Rich pardon, the rest of us can concern ourselves with "unequivocal" declarations like this: ...
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Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. forcefully broke from the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies Thursday, declaring that waterboarding is torture and pledging to prosecute some Guantanamo Bay detainees ...
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campaignspot.nationalreview.com 1/13/2009 — Erick Erickson of RedState comes out, guns blazing, against the NRA for not using everything in their arsenal (no pun intended) against the nomination... . . .
Did Holder Promise No Torture Prosecutions?
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 1/28/2009 — As I posted, both Sheldon Whitehouse and Pat Leahy suggest that--even though John Cornyn and others made an inappropriate demand that Holder promise not to prosecute any Bushies--Holder did not make that promise.
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politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 1/15/2009 — Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. declared Thursday that waterboarding is torture, forcefully breaking from years in which the Justice Department deftly avoided the sensitive question about U.S. interrogation methods.
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From NBC's Domenico MontanaroAt halftime of the Eric Holder hearing, President-elect Obama's pick to be attorney general marked a sharp break from the policies of the Bush administration and the previous attorneys general, particularly John Ashcroft ...
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