Posted on 09/28/2014 12:29:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Attorney General Eric Holder was just months into the job when he announced plans to prosecute the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and other alleged co-conspirators in a New York courtroom, rather than through the Guantánamo Bay military commission process.
It was an audacious idea, but immediately beset by political opposition and public safety concerns. The Obama administration’s eventual decision to walk away from the proposal was a stinging defeat for Holder and a reminder of the complexities of the legal fight against terrorism. […]
… (U)nder his watch, the department authorized targeted drone strikes against Americans abroad, subpoenaed journalists’ telephone records in leak investigations and defended in court the government’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records. […]
Overall, (Seton Hall University law professor Jonathan) Hafetz said he believed Holder, attorney general since the start of Obama’s presidency in 2009, had been “too supportive of executive power and insufficiently protective of civil liberties.” …
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(BTW, Jonathan Hafetz used to be a senior ACLU lawyer.)
To sum this article, Holder did good stuff and bad stuff. The Bad stuff is obvious and the good stuff is really hard to see.
A slavering review if I ever saw one!
As if national security was ever his concern.
His record was mixed in that half his actions were corrupt and half were totally corrupt.
I can't name one positive thing Holder has done, other than FINALLY leave to go do damage elsewhere.
This is what passes for "fair and balanced" on the left, when they too, can't name a single thing, and try to have the reader infer that Holder did do something positive, somewhere, some time, as AG.
The only mixed thing about Holder is his race.
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