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Obama's AG
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Eric Holder gets the job. His rhetoric on torture: Eric H. Holder Jr., Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton administration, asserted in a speech to the American Constitution Society (ACS) that the United States must reverse “the disastrous course” set by the Bush administration in the struggle against terrorism by closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, declaring without qualification that the U.S. does not torture people, ending the practice of transferring individuals involuntarily to countries that engage in torture and ceasing ...

OBAMA AND ERIC HOLDER WILL MAKE US LESS SAFE
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — TIME: Eric H. Holder Jr., Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton administration, asserted in a speech to the American Constitution Society (ACS) that the United States must reverse “the disastrous course” set by the Bush administration in the struggle against terrorism by closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, declaring without qualification that the U.S. does not torture people, ending the practice of transferring individuals involuntarily to countries that engage in torture and ceasing warrantless domestic ...

Rumors Of Appointments
Obsidian Wings — ... , pending vetting. I don't know much about Holder, but I find this very encouraging -- not just for the position he takes, but for his forthrightness and lack of equivocation: ...

Obama Names Eric Holder Attorney General-- Dick Cheney Indicted
DownWithTyranny! — ... , let's wait and see. I don't know a lot about him other than that he was a Deputy Attorney General under Clinton and an Acting Attorney General when Bush took over and before the Senate choked back the vomit in its mouth and endorsed Ashcroft, but I do know that he'll be the nation's first African-American Attorney General, something I'm sure will agitate the dominant KKK wing of the Republican Party. Today's Time has a good speech he gave a few days ago to the American Constitution Society about the need to reverse "the disastrous course" set by the Bush Torture Regime. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... ...Googling around, I see he's sounded many progressive notes about terrorism-related issues. Check out this speech to the American Constitution Society, the liberal answer to the Federalist Society, in June, back when he was helping helm Obama's vice-presidential search committee. Mark Halperin put up an ACS press release giving the highlights: ...

Reaction Round-Up: Eric Holder Nomination
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Googling around, I see he's sounded many progressive notes about terrorism-related issues. Check out this speech to the American Constitution Society, the liberal answer to the Federalist Society, in June, back when he was helping helm Obama's vice-presidential search committee. Mark Halperin put up an ACS press release giving the highlights. ...