(Must be another major scandal brewing on the horizon)
The White House on Thursday was quick to advocate for Holder's placement in the history books.
“He established a historic legacy of civil rights enforcement and restoring fairness to the criminal justice system,” said one White House official. “Holder revitalized the department’s praised civil rights division, protected the rights of the LGBT community, successfully prosecuted terrorists, and fought tirelessly for voting rights, to name a few.”
(Might be a few they left out…quite a few that is)
ERIC HOLDER'S CAREER:
Scandals, activism and race politics Eric Holder is the fourth-longest-serving attorney general in U.S. history and has attracted more than his share of scandal.
1995 – Holder told the Woman's National Democratic Club that the DOJ would soon launch a public campaign to 'really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way ... in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes.'
January 2001 – As deputy attorney general, Holder interceded with President Clinton and advised him to pardon Marc Rich, a substantial campaign donor and 20-year fugitive, in a tax-evasion and racketeering case. Clinton granted the pardon during his final hours in office.
February 2009 – Holder was confirmed as attorney general by a 75-21 margin in the U.S Senate and became America's first black attorney general.
February 2009 – A newly minted AG Holder said during a speech marking Black History Month that the U.S. was 'essentially a nation of cowards' on race-relations. He said in January 2014 that 'I would not take that back'
(Didn't the "nation of cowards" just elect a black president?)
May 2009 – Holder stunned legal watchers by decided to try a terror-bombing suspect in civilian courts instead of giving him a military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay detention complex. Ahmed Ghailani, indicted for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies which killed 12 Americans and 212 otherss, became the first Guantanamo prisoner brought to U.S. soil for a trial.
November 2009 – Following an Islamist Army doctor's jihad-related mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, Holder's DOJ classified the casualties as the result of 'workplace violence' instead of opening a terrorism case.
(The Hasan case was as close to workplace violence as Benghazi was to a video)
April 2010 – Holder personally OK'ed search warrants demanding the secret collection of emails belonging to Fox News Channel reporter James Rosen. The DOJ wanted to track the source of a national security leak without Rosen being aware he was under surveillance.
(Yet he couldn't track 2 and a half years of missing emails at the IRS)
Watch this short video... remember he personally signed off on the search warrant to obtain the communications of Rosen. If this isn't an out-and-out lie what is?
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May 2011 – Holder testified under oath during a congressional hearing that he hadn't heard about the failed 'gunwalking' program Operation Fast and Furious until one month earlier. A memo later surfaced from 2010 showing that Holder had been briefed on the program, which lost track of nearly 2,000 guns that killed hundreds including an American border patrol agent. He would have went up in flames on this one but Barry broke the law by covering up a crime using Executive Priviledge to pull Stedman's ass out of the fire.
He Frankly is a liar.
June 2012 – Congress voted to hold Holder in contempt, an unprecedented move, for refusing to turn over the Fast and Furious documents that a Republican-led committee had subpoenaed.
November 2013 – a Texas Republican congressman filed Articles of Impeachment against Holder but only attracted 26 cosponsors for the bill.
March 2014 – Holder declined Republicans' demands to appoint an independent Special Prosecutor to probe allegations that IRS officials politically targeted conservative groups with intrusive investigations. Immersed with a avalanche of evidence, crashed hard drives, two and a half years of missing emails, people pleading the 5th left and right, yet instead he conducted investigations into thugs Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin finding this a bigger miscarriage of justice than the most significant breach in government corruption since the Nixon administration.
Unequivocally Eric Holder was/is the worst AG this country has ever had. When history is recorded I hope the hindsight is 20/20 but I suspect the historians are holding a white cane with a red tip. If you think this is all BS go to Wikipedia now and look up Alberto Gonzales and compare it with their take on the legacy of Stedman.
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to Step Down
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder will announce he plans to resign, according to an official familiar with his plans. A formal announcement is planned for Thursday afternoon at the White House.
Mr. Holder plans to stay in the job until a successor is confirmed, according to the official. That means he could remain on the job beyond the November election.
The first black attorney general, Mr. Holder is also one of a handful of remaining cabinet members whose tenures date back to the beginning of the Obama administration.
Mr. Holder has long signaled he plans to leave the job by the end of this year.
The official said the attorney general and the president have had several discussions about his planned departure and finalized those plans at a Labor Day meeting at the White House.
Among those mentioned as possible successors is former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, according to people familiar with the discussions. She and Mr. Holder were spotted having dinner at a Washington restaurant last month.
Another candidate being considered by the White House is Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who represented the U.S. in the recent Supreme Court case over whether for-profit companies with religious objections should have to pay a fine for not covering contraceptives in workers insurance plans as required by the Affordable Care Act.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is another potential contender.
