corner.nationalreview.com - 1/28/2009
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To recap:
ITEM: When Eric Holder was the number 2 official in the Clinton Justice Department, he engineered the pardons of FALN terrorists, a precedent that laid the ground work the next year for President Clinton's pardons of two Weather Underground terrorists -- commutations that took ...
washingtontimes.com - 1/28/2009
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washingtontimes.com —
By: ErikTheDread It's hard to believe Bond. Even
if what he's saying is true (which I find...
hard to believe), do Republicans REALLY want to go down this road? Extracting pre hoc promises from nominees that would be binding after confirmation? Does Bond ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Holder assures GOP on prosecution
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/28/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
My colleague Zack at TPMmuck just heard from
an aide to Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. The...
aide definitively denied Sen. Kit Bond's (R-MO) claim that Holder had given him "assurances" of avoiding future prosecutions of Bush intelligence ...
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Talking Points Memo | Holder Aide: We Made No Special ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/28/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
An aide to Eric Holder rejected a report
Wednesday suggesting that the Attorney General nominee had pledged...
not to prosecute members of the Bush administration officials who were complicit in illegal harsh interrogations or torture. "Eric Holder ...
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Aide: Holder Has Made No Decisions On Prosecuting Bush ...
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House Republicans Unite Against Stimulus
GayPatriot —
... House Republicans may have shown some spine today, but their Senate colleagues appear to be wavering. Six of the eight Republicans on the Judiciary Committee voted to confirm Eric Holder for Attorney General despite his troubling record as Deputy Attorney General. ...
AP’s Silence about Holder’s Troubling Record
GayPatriot —
... The article basically rehashes the standard Democratic criticisms of the Bush Administration Justice Department. And this is all we get about Holder’s controversial tenure in the Clinton Administration: “Even his critics agreed that Holder was well-qualified, but they questioned his positions and his independence.” Um, they did more than question. Here are just a few of the troubling things in his record. ...
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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 ...
GOP Forming United Opposition To Holder Nomination
huffingtonpost.com 12/12/2008 — More signs have emerged that Eric Holder's nomination for Attorney General will face a bitter committee fight as Republican Senators on Thursday criticized Holder's work in the Clinton White House and even attempted to tie him to disgraced Illinois ...
Time to put a "Hold" on Holder
astuteblogger.blogspot.com 1/26/2009 — Aside from the aforementioned abomination of a "stimulus" package , a great place for the Republicans to actually grow a pair would be to focus on derailing the Eric Holder nomination; Here is a letter that is a good template for what could (and ...
Steele
corner.nationalreview.com 1/31/2009 — I like Michael Steele -- he's one of those charismatic guys who'd be impossible not to like if you were trying not to like him. I've only met him a couple of times, but one was in a green room where we both found ourselves with an hour to kill. ...
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.
But right as that came out, the ...
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 ...
How Much Opposition to Eric Holder Is Enough?
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... . . .
Senate committee approves Holder
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/28/2009
AP - Eric Holder's nomination as the first African-American attorney general moved to the full Senate on Wednesday with broad bipartisan support, as Republicans who earlier criticized the nominee determined he was well qualified for the job.
Panel Backs Justice Dept. Nominee —
NYT > Politics 1/29/2009
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved, and sent to the full Senate, the nomination of Eric H. Holder Jr. to be the nation’s 82nd attorney general. >
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