Posted on 01/09/2009 5:03:03 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Attorney General nominee Eric H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations, according to interviews and documents.
Details of the role played by Holder, who was deputy attorney general at the time, have not been publicly known until now. However the new disclosures are of particular interest because Republican senators vow to revisit Holder's role during his confirmation hearings next week.
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A puerto rican congresswoman from NY was demanding their release in return for support for hitlery’s senate run.
Holder went along with whatever the bubba’s demanded.
National security be damned.
So, we’re likely to get more information on Holder out of these hearings. Then, we’ll get Holder as AG.
Bizarre-—Clinton did the pardons, so we only go after Holder?
How is a New Yorker a Puerto Rican?
“two violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations”
Correction - Two violent marxist organizations from Chicago and New York that used the fringe cause of Puerto Rican independence as a facade for their criminal acts.
Where have you been?
Obama camp 'prepared to talk to Hamas'
Note to Congress: God help you.
What next, Jocelyn Elders?
Spineless bastards
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