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Eric Holder Is Resigning
And now, for the best news of the day, we go to NPR which reports that Eric "Too Big To Prosecute" Holder is resigning. From NPR:
Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday after a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances, national security threats, reforms to the criminal justice system and five and a half years of fights with Republicans in Congress.
Two sources familiar with the decision tell NPR that Holder, 63, intends to leave the Justice Department as soon as his successor is confirmed, a process that could run through 2014 and even into next year. A former U.S. government official says Holder has been increasingly "adamant" about his desire to leave soon for fear he otherwise could be locked in to stay for much of the rest of President Obama's second term.
Holder already is one of the longest serving members of the Obama cabinet and ranks as the fourth longest tenured AG in history. Hundreds of employees waited in lines, stacked three rows deep, for his return in early February 2009 to the Justice Department, where he previously worked as a young corruption prosecutor and as deputy attorney general — the second in command — during the Clinton administration.
But some of that early glow faded in part due to the politicized nature of the job and in part because of Holder's own rhetoric, such as a 2009 Black History Month speech where he said the country was "a nation of cowards" when it comes to discussions about racial tension.
Five years later, violence erupted between police and protesters in Ferguson, Mo., after a white policeman killed an unarmed black 18 year old. And this time, the White House dispatched Holder to speak his piece, in effect jump starting that conversation, and helping to settle nerves in the frayed community.
Another huge controversy — over his decision to try the 9-11 plotters in a New York courthouse in the shadow of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center — prompted venomous reaction from lawmakers, New York City officials and some victim families.
Under pressure that threatened his job and his legacy, the attorney general reversed his decision and instead sent the cases to military court — where they continue to languish even as Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law and other terrorism defendants are serving life sentences in maximum security prisons on American soil.
Holder most wants to be remembered for his record on civil rights: refusing to defend a law that defined marriage as between one man and one woman; suing North Carolina and Texas over voting restrictions that disproportionately affect minorities and the elderly; launching 20 investigations of abuses by local police departments; and using his bully pulpit to lobby Congress to reduce prison sentences for non-violent drug crimes. Many of those sentences disproportionately hurt minority communities.
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In the end, the decision to leave was Holder's alone — the two sources tell NPR the White House would have been happy to have him stay a full eight years and to avoid what could be a contentious nomination fight for his successor. Holder and President Obama discussed his departure several times and finalized things in a long meeting over Labor Day weekend at the White House.
The attorney general told staff the news at DOJ this morning and has called civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former AG Robert F. Kennedy.
Friends and former colleagues say Holder's made no decisions about his next professional perch, but they say it would be no surprise if he returned to the law firm Covington & Burling, where he spent years representing corporate clients.
The friends say Holder is also considering donating his papers to a university in D.C. or his native New York, where he could establish a civil rights center to work more on law enforcement interactions with communities of color and host public forums on those issues.
But who will no longer not prosecute bankers for the biggest generational and wealth transfer theft is US history?
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good riddance... worst ever..pure brute politics from a guy in the key position of protecting liberties...his tenure will (hopefully) be seen as the low point in American history...
Obama was horrible but Holder was the person who made those policies real, except of course for the hordes of faceless b'crats in all departments who just made up regs as they pleased...perhaps they have been worse but only because of volume.
Al Sharpton for AG!
Al Sharpton is a race pimp .
Al Not-So-Sharpton would fit right in that regime.
Maybe as 60 Minutes reported, being a victim of identity theft did him in as someone filed and collected an IRS return with his social security number was the last straw, watch that video and see how complete novcies are filing fake IRS returns and making millions. The IRS does not even cross reference your name with your social security number to verify and we are talking query 101 there.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/09/one-more-reason-to-license-data.html
Amazing it's right on 60 Minutes about Holder. Also if you never watched "The Untouchables" it is a good one as you can clearly see as I did that DOJ Lanny in just 5 minutes talk had absolutely no confidence/knowedge on how to investigate and prosecute "while collar code crime" at all.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-untouchables-too-big-to-jail....
Rather DOJ I think stayed away and went with familiar low hanging fruit methodologies only.
crisis of conscience
Kamala Harris is next.
She let off the bankers. The gromming must be complete.
There aint no shortage of sellouts.
Fuck you, NPR.
Not a single mention of Fast and Furious, Too Big to Prosecute, his refusal to do his fucking job (the whole marriage between a man and a woman thing), refusal to enforce immigration law, backing of domestic spying, etc. etc.
Go to hell.
ha, what else would one expect from NPR? They're even worse that Communist News Network in being left-leaners. I stopped listening to their puke a LONNNNNG time ago, even though it was the only remotely cerebral thing on the radio. I'd rather listen to Beiber and I can't stand Beiber.
Which Wall Street firm will hire this POS?
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The only reason this mafioso turd is leaving is because even in our broken system he is such a criminal the compromised cowards in congress are finally getting the nerve to seriously come after him.
As #3 In the Clinton admin he ran the cover-up of the Clinton/FBI/ATF 1993 Oklahoma City bombing. He ran the Sandy Hook cover-up. And according to Andrew Brietbart, Holder was running a pay off operation through his old Chicago law firm for Wall Street criminals to avoid prosecution... and probably so many other felonies it would fill the volume of a phone book just listing them.
We now know the drill. The NWO loves to use black skinned criminal fronts instead of white ones because they get more mileage out of them.
And... if you say anything you're a 'racist.'
Corzine for AG
He could free himself.
I must be missing what this guy did so wrong to demand everyone look for his death??
He seems to be a champion of gay marriage and control of the police abusing their power. Is there any other atrocities to crucify this man?
Is it that he's a Dumbocrat, or black? that you all hate?
Welcome back. How was Mars?
thx for the informative reply.
no space for me, i prefer to "stay grounded" (in facts).
Gun running to drug cartels. We can start there.
dey ain' nuttin' bad 'bout 'formin' yo' own sef...
Wait Berdie. While he may have provided support for gay marriage (less than Dick Cheney's support for it, but some), you are completely wrong (or intentionally misleading) when you say he has tried to control police abuse. He is zealous supporter of the violent, Nazi-like police/surveillance state. He has remained silent while Police SWAT teams have run amok around the country and police have beaten, robbed, surveilled and murdered innocent citizens.
He is a Police Statist who just happens to be who he is. No he did nothing wrong? ha ha you are a joker.
He's the first openly anti-White, cowardly, racist, gun running, hispanic murderer, as well as the highest ranking .GOV official in history ever caught red-handed lying under oath about weaponizing drug cartels while simulataneously driving the get away car for the Wall Street criminals.
Datta duit.
And that's just for starters you blind, knuckle dragging, woman hating, anti-Mexican, baby-killing, socialist wiper-of-other-people's-bottoms!
Where have you been the last 5.5 years? This man might by the worst American there is due to his obscene abuse of power.
One suggestion: read something other than the Gayrod Times.
Like the man said - Fast and Furious, thousands dead including US Border agents. Assassination of Federal Judge Role and attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords who were investigating Fast and Furious. Dirt-bag Holder must have been in on it. Running the cover-up (while #3 at Justice) of the feds bombing themselves at the Murrah Building in Oklahoma city in 1995... the crimes are endless. This guy should be on death row.
Damage Control. Some damning revelations of corruption are forthcoming. He will get pardoned by BHO if things get too hot for him and then he will sit on a board at big money house.
I sure hope Bamster doesn't find it necessary to "Vince Foster" old Eric when Gowdy and Issa start to close in.. Wishful thinking I know, down vote me for excess exuberance.
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Great minds think alike.
I think this is good for Eric, who has worked so hard on our behalf.
Now he can spend his time with Jesse, Al, the New Black Panthers, and the Ferguson looters.
His kind.
Gee i wonder if his hard drive has been destroyed
What NPR said:
"Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday..."
What NPR actually meant:
"Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general and the first cabinet member in American history to be held in contempt of Congress, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday..."
Good riddence to bad rubbish.
Now that he's free does it mean he'll "turn State's evidence" and try for a modicum of redemption before the 'big sleep'? Does a scorpion kiss frogs?
Demon
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God bless Judicial Watch
Scotty
Does it really matter? The next one will be just as crooked as this piece of shit was! SSDD!
Has anyone else noticed that as soon as the law almost catches up to one of the Obama administration traitors, they resign them?
I really do hope Holder is tried, convicted, and executed for treason and umpteen violations of the US Constitition.
Good riddence, Holder, you piece of sh.
Now who's next on the traitor wagon? Lerner? Reid? Pelosi? Killary? Bloomberg? Franken?
It sounds like Obama's shit show is rapidly falling apart. I hope Obama does something flashy in the end, just like his personality... like maybe he sets himself on fire on the White House lawn, or jumps out of Marine One... something really good.
Finally some Hope and Change!
First off good to see you Fonz.
Second, I would like to see Dick Holder get ran over and draged to his death by an illegal alien drunk driver, who has been deported a dozen times, who also has a fast and furious gun in the back seat and a trunk full of ballots from the last elections that mysteriously disappeared just to be released back to the general population because the guy is a dreamer who then sues the federal government because he was profiled and screamed raycissss.
FUCK YOU YOU POS HOLDER!
Yeah, I like it. We should put dragging into the (pro-Constitution) judge's arsenal against corrupt traitors. Good out-of-the-box thinking... Holder, always making firsts. First Attorney General dragged around Washington DC. Love it.
The Shield is quiting today
now
5minutes
Smudge must want a replacement fast
Glad you liked it. Traitors desereve the very best do they not? Drag him by the ankles and do a bunch of donuts in a very densely populated city like SF. I would also like to see him dragged by his chin from the grill on the concrete while his body is stuck under the front end.
He is the ultimate POS and a traitor. If you've ever watched Metalocalypse there is an episode/ song called laser cannon deth sentence. Great song, great episode, greater form of execution.
Good freakin riddance! WORST ATTORNEY GENERAL EVER!
Byebye Inaction Jackson.