Eric Holder. Lawyer For The Death Squad Terrorists’ Paymasters: Our Next Attorney General?

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Eric Holder. Lawyer For The Death Squad Terrorists’ Paymasters: Our Next Attorney General?
democracyarsenal.org found this 12/1/2008 on firedoglake.com (flag)
Chiquita Banana And The Cannibals When high-powered attorney Eric Holder, partner in the high-power DC law firm Covington & Burling, chose to allow American Lawyer to profile him for a trial balloon about making him AG, he allowed American Lawyer to watch him work for Chiquita. While ... (link)

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Rolling Back the Fog at Justice
Published 12/1/2008 by Adam Blickstein at democracyarsenal.org
Plenty of others have dissected Eric Holder's record, both in substance and rhetoric, so I'm going to try and steer clear from digging too deep into his past. But one thing has become clear in the reaction Holder's nomination, and indeed within reaction to most of Obama's nominees: these are seasoned professionals with long track records who couldn't be further from the cronyism and malfeasance that occurred under President Bush. But one problem with putting seasoned professionals into these posts is that long track-records don't tend to ...

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Holder pardon makes Senate Dems squirm

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His role in Rich's pardon is unlikely to derail his nod, but it will make Dems uneasy.
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