Shall I remind you of the Marc Rich pardon
President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential transition.
Holder, who served as deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, still has to undergo a formal “vetting” review by the Obama transition team before the selection is final and is publicly announced, said one of the sources, who asked not to be identified talking about the transition process. But in the discussions over the past few days, Obama offered Holder the job and he accepted, the source said…
The only hesitancy about Holder’s selection was that he himself had reservations about going through a confirmation process that was likely to revive questions about his role in signing off on the controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Although there is no evidence that Holder actively pushed the pardon, he was criticized for not raising with the White House the strong objections that some Justice Department lawyers and federal prosecutors in New York had to pardoning somebody who had fled the country. But after reviewing the evidence in the case, and checking with staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Obama aides and Holder both decided the issue was highly unlikely to prove an obstacle to his confirmation, one of the sources said–especially given the Democrats’ more sizable post-election majority in the Senate.
So Obama doesn’t think it is a problem because of the amount of Senate seats the Democrats hold? Really? He looked at the evidence? And it wasn’t cause for concern? Wow! Well, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, he sat in a church for 20 years and never heard Wright use inflammatory language. He lied about his relationship with Ayers, had Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson on his VP vetting committee, the Bailout Bunch on his Transition Economic Advisory Board, but not to worry, Wink Wink, Obama Transition Team Adopts Ethics Rules, Wink Wink
Ace:
Thank goodness we won’t have any pesky questions over this “distraction.”
Allahpundit
Even better, he was deputy AG when federal agents extracted Elian Gonzalez at the point of a machine gun and did a cable news tour defending that decision. Elian’s father’s attorney at the time, incidentally? The One’s new White House counsel, Greg Craig.
Exit quotation: “These guys didn’t put together a campaign in order to turn the government over to the Clintons.”
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I don’t know anything about Holder, but thank God it isn’t Jamie Gorelic. Gorelic should be in prison.
You know who else was a lawyer for Rich? Scooter Libby.They must’ve been playing both sides of the fence to get his pardon. When you have tons of money,you can hire anyone to speak to influential persons and get you off for anything.Not good.Not good at all.Who do you think George Bush will pardon before he leaves office?
Scooter Libby was an attorney for Rich, not a pardon attorney, but from what I have read, he called and congratulated him the day after the pardon! I think it is ridiculous…I am tired of our government doing these kinds of things…it seems like the bigger the blunder you commit, the further up the ladder you get promoted..It is not limited to one party either..Many of us on this blog want the bad behavior stopped, not promoted!
Speaking of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder:
Eric Holder is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.