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The most polarizing man in Barack Obama's administration — besides the president himself — is calling it quits.
President Obama is due to make "a personnel announcement" at 1630ET (plan accordingly)
And here is W. James Antle III from The National Interest,
Attorney General Eric Holder has been at the center of some of the administration’s biggest scandals and controversies. Conservatives have long hoped he would step down—a House resolution demanding his resignation had well over 130 co-sponsors—but it never seemed likely to happen for one reason: the confirmation hearings to replace him would be a public relations debacle.
Faced with the possibility of a Republican-controlled Senate, however, Holder had two choices: get out now or remain attorney general until Obama’s second term is up. So America’s long national nightmare is almost over—but the White House’s may just be beginning.
Let us count the ways Holder has generated bad press for his boss. There is Operation Fast and Furious, a gun-running scheme that allegedly began as an elaborate sting operation to allow firearms straw purchasers to lead authorities to major gun traffickers. It ended up with the feds losing track of the guns, which were subsequently used in crimes—including murder—in both the United States and Mexico.
The death of federal agent Brian Terry blew the lid off Fast and Furious. In February, one suspect received a thirty-year-sentence for Terry’s murder. But the story remained safely marginalized in the conservative media, with the exception of dogged reporting by Sharyl Attkisson, formerly of CBS.
Despite representing the most transparent administration in history, Holder was widely accused of stonewalling congressional investigations into Fast and Furious. He was eventually held in contempt of Congress by the House, to which he responded by claiming to be a victim of partisan persecution.
Not long before news of his resignation came down, a federal judge denied a Justice Department request to delay the release of documents pertaining to Fast and Furious. The Obama administration had asserted executive privilege over the documents.
While Operation Fast and Furious was dismissed as a right-wing concern, Holder had no such luck with the Associated Press scandal. The attorney general was intimately involved in the seizure of phone records for more than twenty lines belonging to the AP. His Justice Department dug through the personal emails of Fox News’ James Rosen.
“Search warrants like these have a severe, chilling effect on the free flow of important information to the public,” First Amendment lawyer Charles Tobin told the Washington Post. “That’s a very dangerous road to go down.” The veracity of Holder’s testimony to Congress about the intention and scope of its reporter probes has been widely questioned.
The Holder Justice Department earned a reputation for being aggressive in the enforcement of laws it liked and more selective when it involved policies with which the administration disagreed (immigration restrictions, the Defense of Marriage Act).
Holder initially resisted congressional efforts to get more information about the Obama administration’s policy of extrajudicial killings for counterterrorism purposes. Did this include Americans on U.S. soil? And if so, under what circumstances? This led to the filibuster of CIA chief nominee John Brennan and a national debate on drones.
Holder, the first African-American attorney general, was far quicker than his boss, the first African-American president, to racialize national controversies. He was far less measured in his comments about the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. He famously called America a “nation of cowards” with regard to race.
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder told Justice Department employees.
Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin retorted that Holder’s proposed dialogue “means the rest of us shutting up while being subjected to lectures about our insensitivity and insufficient integration on the weekends.”
Yet Holder does deserve credit for trying to minimize some of the damage done by the federal drug war, leading the charge on reforming excessive criminal sentencing guidelines and seeking ways to ensure that young people—many of them minorities—are not permanently damaged by early decisions.
Even here, Holder’s unilateral methods could be questioned. But it is an issue where he also worked with Congress, including Tea Party Republicans like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Rand Paul.
When President Obama’s nominee for the next attorney general testifies before Congress, however, lawmakers can be excused for wondering if they are getting the full story. There’s good reason to doubt they ever did with Holder.
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Oh what fresh hell will fill this slot? I am sure Obummer will find a Yellenesque type to take his place.
Al Sharpton, the FBI snitch, for AG.
why now....? ? what does he know that we don't know... maybe he wants to get out before the big crash....
Breitbart is reporting that it's connected to losing an appeal to withhold documents on Fast and Furious. If that's actually the case, there must be a smoking gun in the docs that either implicates Holder or the President, either way Holder is taking the fall.
That also means that we'll probably see some pretty big news on F&F in the late fall.
Fuck you Holder! Fuck you to hell!
I restrained myself for giving you a thumbs up because I thought your comment a tad harsh, but I find myself agreeing with your sentiment. Good riddance!
Off topic, but in the same vein.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/8tabledatadecpdf/table-8-state-cuts/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_by_connecticut_by_city_2012.xls#disablemobile
I thought the most polarizing man in this administration was Mooch... although I will admit that Holder is a rancid maggot A-hole.
Good riddens scumbag, I hope you get gunned down by a rogue cop, poetic justice.
Oh but that his parents had named him Richard ...
Judge Ginsberg retires after the November election...Holder is nominated to the Supremes.....Harry Reid rams Holder thru the Senate
Dude, dont give me nightmares.
"Ok, Eric, here's the plan: retire for family reasons and keep your trap shut!"
IRS, Lois Lerner is breathing a sign of relief with Eric Holder out the picture..
Hahaha..
Puleeease, quit calling the Kenyan Osurper "president"! Since the K.O. appointed the clueless corrupt Holder, the hapless stooge never was A.G.
Another fox fleeing the henhouse.
Eric Holder you bitch, we know what you did last summer!
There are too many in our government that need to be hunted down and brought to justice to fit in single card deck but if Obama is the ace of spades then Holder should be king of spades.
What a fucking evil clown this dipshit was. Sends guns into Mexico, gets people killed. Racialized everything. Considers 'mother' and 'father' to be hate speech. I hope the fucker meets a rope.
Rest in peace Brian, this is not over.
Fuck you Dick Holder.
May you rot in the hell of true justice.
Would it be too complimentary to send him to the desert in Syria? Even the USA wants his head on a stake.
Please let them Vince Foster him. Race baiting trash.
Finally this bastard does something for the betterment of our (not his) country.
Fuck you, you piece of shit! May you rot in hell with Satan's cuttlefish of cthulhu firmly implanted in your asshole....I imagine a scene from Dir En Grey's "obscure" just for you.....you're a traitorous conniving soulless human.... Oh and fuck you too bernanke.
Now Al Sharpton claims that he be advising the Kenyan on who the next AG is going to be.
The really sick part is, that's probably true.
Adios to the best AG that money bought...RIH!!!
Is he more of a liability than an asset now?
I'm starting to think Zeroshit is part of the Problem-Reaction-Solution with a whole lot of Intellectual bullshit.Its easy-all Lizards and there Allies need to be exterminated of the face of this planet once and for all,Or humanity will never have peace.
I like the deck of cards references.
When do we roll?
Been wondering that for a while.
Issa 2016
Benjamin Fulford wrote on July 17, 2013:
“On the public side, the head of Homeland Security and 15 top Sabbatean agents within that department were fired last week, joining the 26 generals, CIA head David Petraeus, Senate Intelligence Committee Chief J. Rockefeller, Pope Maledict, Queen Beatrix of Holland, Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia, King Albert II of Belgium and many others in a purge of cabalist operators. Only Eric Holder now stands, and probably not for long, between President Obama and the legal moves to remove him from office.”