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nytimes.com - 12/2/2008

Pardon Is Back in Focus for the Justice Nominee

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Eric H. Holder Jr., Barack Obama’s choice to be attorney general, was more deeply involved in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich than his supporters acknowledge. >

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The Reality-Based Community:  Hatchet Job on Eric Holder in the NYT

Brilliant at Breakfast:  I wonder how they can still say this with a straight face

The Page by Mark Halperin:  Holder's Potential Pardon Problem

Weekly Standard Blog:  What Was the Hold Up?

Cold Fury:  Noted Coward Calls You A Coward

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Hatchet Job on Eric Holder in the NYT
The Reality-Based Community — ... ), but he really gives us a clunker in tomorrow's paper about AG-designate Eric Holder. Ostensibly, the article shows that Holder was "more deeply involved" in Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich than "his supporters acknowledge." So what's the news? Well, nothing really. No new story. Nothing different from what was already known before. In fact, much of the story derives from Dan Burton's 2002 Congressional "report" on the matter. Holder talked about the issue with Jack Quinn, the former White House counsel who then represented Rich, and gave the ...

I wonder how they can still say this with a straight face
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... In the New York Times today (well-known for flogging Whitewater when no one else was, even though there was no there there), Eric Lichtblau and David Johnston examine Holder's role in the Marc Rich pardon. ...

Holder's Potential Pardon Problem
The Page by Mark Halperin — NY Times digs into the former deputy attorney general's "complicated role" in the 2001 pardon of billionaire financier Marc Rich.      

What Was the Hold Up?
Weekly Standard Blog — The New York Times reports on Obama's designate for Attorney General: Mr. Holder’s supporters portray him as having been a relatively uninvolved bystander caught in a Clinton-era controversy, the remarkable granting of a last-minute pardon by President Bill Clinton to a fugitive from justice. But interviews and an examination of Congressional records show that Mr. Holder, who at the time of the pardon was the deputy attorney general, was more deeply involved in the Rich pardon than his supporters acknowledge. ...

Noted Coward Calls You A Coward
Cold Fury — ... •Posted by Sean Bannion @ 2:14 PM Wednesday, 18 February 2009• Now, it takes some serious chutzpah for a guy who admits he lacked the balls to stand up to Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Ric h, to point out that the rest of us lack balls. But hey, that’s ...