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GayPatriot: Barack Obama: New Kind of Politician
TalkLeft: Right Gearing Up To Attack Holder On Rich Pardon
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias: Obama Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder Helped Enable 2000 Elian Gonzalez Seizure
Classical Values: "a huge distraction at the worst possible moment"
Barack Obama: New Kind of Politician
GayPatriot —
... Holder was a not just Clinton Administration insider, he also brings with him some of the Clintons’ ethical baggage. As Jennifer Rubin details, his conduct in the pardon of fugitive Mark Rich in the dying hours of that Administration was cited as “unconscionable.” Some kind new of politics. ...
Right Gearing Up To Attack Holder On Rich Pardon
TalkLeft —
... , 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: ...
Obama Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder Helped Enable 2000 Elian Gonzalez Seizure
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Besides his already-known role as former Clinton Administration Deputy Attorney General in facilitating the Clinton pardons, including that of fugitive billionaire financier March Rich, there's the matter of Holder's involvement in the Elian Gonzalez case in 2000. ...
"a huge distraction at the worst possible moment"
Classical Values —
... out loud, if things were to get really bad in the near future (and I'm not saying they will), George Bush still has the power to issue pardons. (You know, for the good of country, and all...) Plus, I seriously doubt that Bush would see this as "a huge distraction at the worst possible moment" as he's the lamest of lame ducks, and he has right up until January 20 to do whatever he wants. Why, he could even clear any pardons with the incoming Attorney General Eric Holder, whose flexible pardon standards are a matter of public record. Anyway, I'm getting hugely distracted from ...
Cheney and the Chain Gang
Obsidian Wings —
... by Eric Martin
There have been early indications that the GOP intends to make Eric Holder's role in pardoning Marc Rich fodder for his confirmation hearings - with some of the usual suspects eager to jump on the bandwagon. Granted the Rich pardon was an unseemly use of that presidential prerogative, and Clinton deserves robust criticism for that decision, it is by no means the most egregious episode in Presidential pardoning.
It wasn't, after all, used to cover up the un-Constitutional expansion of executive power or other ...
AP’s Silence about Holder’s Troubling Record
GayPatriot —
... There was something else in the AP article which said a lot about how both leading Democrats and the media few politics: “Holder’s chief supporter, Sen. Patrick Leahy, said the confirmation was a fulfillment of civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character.” It’s almost as if they assume that the historical nature of the appointment obscures Holder’s controversial record. ...
Politico Hit Piece on Sen. Sessions Uses Left-Wing Racial Talking Point, Omits Key Information
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... It's worth noting that Sessions was one of the few Republicans to support Eric Holder's nomination, despite questions about President Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, as the nation's first African-American attorney general. ...
The Impeccable Logic of the Attorney General
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... Okey doke. Next file: that financier friend of the big-wigs ... he's a fugitive living in Switzerland who committed tax evasion, racketeering and trading with the enemy. But his wife looks like she'll pony up a million for various "good causes". ...
