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Holder to be named attorney general

Swing State Project found this 11/18/2008 on firstread.msnbc.msn.com

From NBC's Pete WilliamsPresident-elect Obama has offered Eric Holder the position of attorney general, and Holder has accepted it, according to sources involved in the process. The formal announcement has been held up while Obama transition team members ran the idea past key senators. And Obama wanted to announce members of his financial team first -- Treasury Secretary and so on. Holder is a former superior court judge and U.S. attorney in Washington and a former prosecutor in the Public...( ...