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Andrew Cohen, a contributing editor at The Atlantic and legal analyst for CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” believes Attorney General Eric Holder must resign following this week’s scathing report by the Justice Department’s inspector general, which sharply criticized the administration’s handling of Operation Fast and Furious.
“In the end, the much-heralded, much-maligned Office of the Inspector General’s report on the ‘Fast and Furious’ gun scandal tells us what we already know: Attorney General Eric Holder should resign if President Barack Obama wins another term,” Cohen wrote in a Friday column for The Atlantic.
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“Even viewing the documents and investigation in a light most favorable to the current head of the Justice Department, even discounting the conspiracy theories offered by the Administration’s most ardent critics, the Inspector General’s report tells us that Holder ultimately failed to do what he absolutely had to do at Justice when he succeeded caretaker Attorney General Michael Mukasey in early 2009,” Cohen wrote.
“The prime directive – then and now – was to restore more professionalism to the Department after years of partisan abuse and misuse by the Bush Administration,” Cohen continued. “It’s been five years, and many smart people already have forgotten, but the Justice Department under the reign of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was an outright catastrophe, with episodes including but not limited to the U.S. Attorney scandal. Mukasey began the job of cleaning it up during his brief tenure following Gonzales. But it was Holder’s responsibility, when he got the job in January 2009, to ensure that the Department, at a minimum, no longer did anything patently stupid.”
We know Barack won't fire him, so he should resign. That won't happen either unless more pressure is put on them by Democrats/press. Which is unlikely as well since most of them/you are nothing but hacks.
We know Barack won't fire him, so he should resign. That won't happen either unless more pressure is put on them by Democrats/press. Which is unlikely as well since most of them/you are nothing but hacks.
I don't think so. Pres. Obama has never been shy about throwing people 'under the bus.' He did it with Wright, the guy who married he & Michelle and from whom he got the book title 'Audacity of Hope.'
He hasn't done it with Holder, and my guess would be that he won't. If he wins a 2nd term, Holder will stay--just my guess.
I don't think so. Pres. Obama has never been shy about throwing people 'under the bus.' He did it with Wright, the guy who married he & Michelle and from whom he got the book title 'Audacity of Hope.'
He hasn't done it with Holder, and my guess would be that he won't. If he wins a 2nd term, Holder will stay--just my guess.
Agreed. Note the pattern. It takes pressure from the press, which rarely happens during Obamas reign. The press won't pressure let alone cover the story honestly.
Under Eric Holder the US Justice Department has been unable or unwilling to jail any of the Wall Street fat cats who caused the global economic collapse. His DOJ was also unable to get convictions against the CIA officers who literally tortured prisoners held in their custody to death. However, this Justice Department has attempted prosecutorial overreach in the case against NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake by charging him under The Espionage Act and allowed a complete miscarriage of justice by jailing CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou.
DOJ henchman and FBI director Robert S. Mueller is leaving in September and Eric Holder should go too. If our Attorney General is incompetent and/or corrupt then how can we sincerely expect justice to ever again prevail in our once great nation?
He is on the "too hot" list. Meaning he can not accomplish much because he is being watched.
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