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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/15/2009
Live Blogging Holder's Confirmation Hearing
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The Senate confirmation hearing for Eric Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Attorney General.

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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/15/2009
Holder: "I Will Review That Determination" Not To Prosecute Schlozman
— tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — 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 ... (more) Holder: "I Will Review That Determination" Not To ...

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Cornyn’s Absurd Hypothetical For Holder: What If Waterboarding Were Your Only Interrogation Option?
thinkprogress.org - 1/16/2009
Cornyn’s Absurd Hypothetical For Holder: What If Waterboarding Were Your Only Interrogation Option?
— thinkprogress.org — 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 ... (more) Cornyn’s Absurd Hypothetical For Holder: What If ...

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Holder breaks with Mukasey, says ‘waterboarding is torture.’
thinkprogress.org - 1/15/2009
Holder breaks with Mukasey, says ‘waterboarding is torture.’
— thinkprogress.org — In October 2007, during his confirmation hearings, Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused to call waterboarding torture and to this day has not called it torture. In his confirmation hearing today, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder clearly said ... (more) Holder breaks with Mukasey, says ‘waterboarding is torture.’

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They All Look Alike To Me
RedState: Conservative News and Community — From the NY Times liveblog of the Eric Holder hearings: Oops | 3:37 p.m. In notifying everyone that a short break would occur within a few minutes, Senator Leahy just suggested some people might want to stretch and perhaps some younger members of the “Obama family” might want to run up and down the halls. Uh, as Mr. Leahy realized a few seconds after he uttered those words, the younger people are members of the Holder family (their three children). PS, if you read down, the NYT quotes Erick’s effort to ...

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