seattletimes.nwsource.com - 11/19/2008
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WASHINGTON — The last time Washington attorney Eric Holder participated in a high-profile vetting, it was for fugitive financier Marc Rich. The episode in 2001 became the final scandal of the Clinton administration and landed Holder, at the time the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, in ...
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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 ...
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time.com - 11/18/2008
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time.com —
President Clinton's eleventh-hour pardon of fugitive financier Marc
Rich has sparked a firestorm of controversy, launching investigations
in both houses of Congress and igniting fierce protest from both Democrats and Republicans. The U.S. House and ...
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The Marc Rich Case: A Primer
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Larry King Guests All Conduct Love Fest for Eric Holder Despite Marc Rich Pardon Role
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Last night, Larry King had four guests on his show to discuss the nomination of Eric Holder to become Attorney General. Even though Holder's role in the pardon of fugitive Marc Rich by Bill Clinton was highly controversial, not one of the guests had any real problem with that. Somehow Larry King couldn't find a guest who would offer arguments against the appointment of Eric Holder. To get you up to speed on Holder's role in the Marc Rich pardon, here is an Associated Press story on this subject from last June: ...
Eric Holder Approved Marc Rich Pardon Under Clinton
Say Anything —
... WASHINGTON — The last time Washington attorney Eric Holder participated in a high-profile vetting, it was for fugitive financier Marc Rich. ...
Obama 2007 Radio Interview: My Attorney General Will Investigate Bush Executive Orders
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... of our values as a nation. For the last six years, the position of leader of the free world has been largely vacant. We owe the American people a reckoning. Again, the Bush administration will find itself being stabbed in the back by those they tried to “reach across the aisle to.” Many were expecting Bush to go after the Clinton administration for the shady last minute Marc Rich pardon, which Holder was deeply involved in. A June 2008 AP article described Holder's involvement: The entire matter was handled ...
Carol Platt Liebau: Holder's Politicized Justice Department
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... -- officials to significant posts in the Department; (4) Launching an investigation of the CIA. No doubt President Obama knew what he was getting; Holder previously had been involved in the Marc Rich pardon and the pardon ...
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Holder? Why, oh, why?
firedoglake.com 11/18/2008 —
I think I am having an aneurysm. Why in the name of all that is sensible would Barack Obama want a Clinton re-tread as AG? Not just any Clinton re-tread, nope, the brain trust behind the Marc Rich pardon. Do you know how many brilliant, talented ...
The Real Janet Napolitano
corner.nationalreview.com 11/20/2008 — The still-forming Obama administration seems intent on revisiting many controversies of the past. We already have Eric Holder and the Marc Rich pardon. Now, with the floating of Janet Napolitano's name, we get to revisit the Anita Hill controversy. ...
Right Gearing Up To Attack Holder On Rich Pardon —
TalkLeft
Via Glenn Reynolds , the the Right's brief against Holder - it is the Marc Rich pardon. Interestingly, it does not focus on the Clintons, but on Holder himself: Holder’s role is not in dispute. Without him this travesty would likely not have occurred, as described here : Mr. Holder, ...
Specter: Marc Rich Will Be an Issue —
The Latest on Air America
Today on MSNBC, the ranking Republican on the Senator Judiciary Committee, Senator Arlen Specter expressed his concern about Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Eric Holder because of his role in former President Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich.
Politico has more :
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Holder versus Fitzgerald? —
RedState: Conservative News and Community
Is Rod Blagojevich breathing a little easier now?
First, let's set the scenario. To recap:
Eric Holder vetted the Marc Rich pardon for the Clinton White
House ; Scooter Libby was one of Rich's lawyers; and Patrick
Fitzgerald was one of the attorneys going after Rich . With me
so far?
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Best Qualified? —
QandO
O r a crony? And of course, he’s another Clinton re-tread who was acting AG and approved including the Marc Rich pardon at that time. As to the charges of cronyism: A partner at the D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling, Holder served as co-chief (along with Caroline Kennedy) of Obama’s ...
Change... Obama's AG Pick Tied to Mark Rich Pardon Scandal —
Gateway Pundit
According to the New York Post president-elect Barack Obama has decided on Eric Holder as his attorney general. Eric H. Holder Jr. as deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton reviewed the pardon of corrupt financier Marc Rich. Jim Johnson, who was already tossed under the Obama bus, and ...
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