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Law Blog - WSJ.com : With Rich, Libby and Holder in the News -- It's Like 2001 All Over Again
blogs.wsj.com - 11/19/2008
Law Blog - WSJ.com : With Rich, Libby and Holder in the News -- It's Like 2001 All Over Again
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holder With today’s news about Eric Holder (pictured, left) being candidate uno for the AG slot, it nearly guarantees we’ll soon be reacquainted with some names from the recent past, like Scooter Libby and Marc Rich. Back then, Holder, Rich and to a lesser degree, Libby (pictured, right), were ...
Would Clinton’s State Team Include Obama Thinkers?
washingtonindependent.com - 11/21/2008
Would Clinton’s State Team Include Obama Thinkers?
— washingtonindependent.com — Many foreign policy experts wonder whether a Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would reach beyond loyalists to bring in progressive Obama supporters after an acrimonious primary. (more) Would Clinton’s State Team Include Obama Thinkers?

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Why Obama Should Think Twice About Another Clinton Retread
pajamasmedia.com - 11/18/2008
Why Obama Should Think Twice About Another Clinton Retread
— pajamasmedia.com — Eric Holder played an important role in the much-maligned pardon of fugitive Marc Rich. Should he really be the next attorney general? (more) Why Obama Should Think Twice About Another Clinton Retread

Comments vote down Rover Rover found this 11/18/2008found this
article.nationalreview.com - 11/19/2008
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— article.nationalreview.com — T hat didn t take long. As we observed throughout the campaign, Barack Obama gave indications that his election would mean a return to the September 10 mentality, a national-security outlook marked prominently by its lack of seriousness about the ... (more) :

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Obama's Attorney General on Drugs
Hit & Run — President-elect Obama has tapped Eric Holder, Jr for attorney general, and most of the opposition thus far has centered around Holder's role in the eleventh hour Clinton pardons. I get bored just typing about that. I'm much more worried about ...

Obama’s Long Arm/Short Arm Stiff Of The Netroots
Firedoglake — ... earlier. Holder conspired with his friend Scooter Libby to get a pardon for Marc Rich; Obama must have been mighty impressed by that. Or maybe he was more impressed with Holder's ability to skate his Republican/Bush bigwig friends at Chiquita Brands for their complicity in paying ...

Cheney and the Chain Gang
Obsidian Wings — ... indications that the GOP intends to make Eric Holder's role in pardoning Marc Rich fodder for his confirmation hearings - with some of the ...

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