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Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General
NPR ^ | 09/25/2014 | Carrie Johnson

Posted on 09/25/2014 7:51:25 AM PDT by Pyro7480

Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday after a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances, national security threats, reforms to the criminal justice system and five and a half years of fights with Republicans in Congress.

Two sources familiar with the decision tell NPR that Holder, 63, intends to leave the Justice Department as soon as his successor is confirmed, a process that could run through 2014 and even into next year. A former U.S. government official says Holder has been increasingly "adamant" about his desire to leave soon for fear he otherwise could be locked in to stay for much of the rest of President Obama's second term.

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KEYWORDS: bhodoj; breaking; camelfacedracist; commie; ferret; holder; holderresigning; racist; weasel
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To: MrB

“Someone worse will be appointed, and Holder will go somewhere where he can do even more damage.”

Attorney General Bernardine Dohrn, anyone? The possibilities are almost too frightening to contemplate...and Holder has an almost unlimited capability for mischief wherever he goes!


221 posted on 09/25/2014 5:26:27 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Red Badger

Thank you Red Badger!!!


222 posted on 09/25/2014 5:59:23 PM PDT by Justaham
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To: Pyro7480

All the more reason the GOP needs to win the Senate and retain the House in November. The GOP needs to take the Senate. No way an executive appointment by 0bama can get Holder on the SCOTUS.


223 posted on 09/25/2014 6:09:17 PM PDT by kevinm13 (Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: Pyro7480

Needs to leave in shackles. One of the many crooks working in the DC area.


224 posted on 09/25/2014 7:02:13 PM PDT by Busko (One thing is certain, nothing is certain.)
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To: Pyro7480

I think this is a sign a few certain scandals are about to hit the fan. And I fully suspect a white woman replacement, expressing her white guilt about privilege, and her first job will be to go after Officer Wilson in Ferguson. And it will be “fair” because she is white, and you can’t question her because that’s sexist. Meanwhile Holders crimes will be brought out and BO will pardon him.


225 posted on 09/25/2014 7:22:24 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: Scoutmaster
You're smart - you're willing to clean a basement and a garage... AND you're available? There are freepers who will hunt you down...
226 posted on 09/25/2014 8:20:48 PM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: Scoutmaster

Either way, I doubt that you would appreciate the source.


227 posted on 09/25/2014 9:57:07 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: MacMattico
"And I fully suspect a white woman replacement"

U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan (Western District of Washington, Seattle), who has been described as the first openly gay U.S. attorney.

She's a gringo, but 2 outta 3 ain't bad.

228 posted on 09/25/2014 10:02:30 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: Pyro7480

Resigning is not good enough for Eric Holder, Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Schumer, Harry Reid, other government officials like them or the big money interests that support them. Resignation will not do. Ever.


229 posted on 09/26/2014 4:21:32 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Pyro7480

to join the Taliban I suppose


230 posted on 09/26/2014 7:16:52 AM PDT by sunny48
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To: driftdiver
Just like Rahm the crooked, he figures his likelihood of jail time will decrease if he bails mid term.

I hope it does not as he has aided many deaths by pushing weapons to the drug cartels to falsely give the impression that guns were the problem. He and Hillary have a good deal of blood on their hands and they both need to be brought to justice.

231 posted on 09/26/2014 7:27:10 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: devolve
Interesting list of charges. Thanks.

But how to pin the tail (tales, the real back-stories) on the donkeys, including that jack Holder?

It may be difficult to get people to listen, since none of it fits on a bumper sticker.

232 posted on 09/26/2014 9:54:23 AM PDT by BlueDragon (Oh ..I know I ...lived this life afore... somehow.. I know now ...truths I must be sure)
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To: Conservative Gato
That's why I think the smart play for Obama is to appoint a white hetero male, to counteract that. Think about it,he could appoint a white guy and no one would question his racial intentions, especially the media. We wuld hear he's the most qualified for the job, etc. Only the far lefties like Mother Jones et al would say anything, but their vote is sewn up anyway, so who cares.

That would be the smart play, but it is Obama, so that's not what will happen...

233 posted on 09/26/2014 1:49:26 PM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: cport

With Holder’s seeming end, one is reminded of his, Obaama’s, and the Clinton’s motto: Crime Does Pay.


234 posted on 09/27/2014 5:50:27 PM PDT by CT (Obama is the product of a shiftless press, LoFoVo, and the conquest of Soviet style public education)
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To: devolve; All

I just heard the other night that Fast and FUrious was started by the Bush administration. Anyone know if this is true and what year?


235 posted on 09/27/2014 11:19:19 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

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- Not true - that is Obama’s spin to CYA

- Obama-Holder never followed the trail of the firearms they are both setting up their own special pensions with Muslim oil countries, drug cartels - under Obama and Holder the FBI and DEA are filled with corrupt agents now

- Bush tracked the firearms and worked with the Mexican LE

- Obama and Holder just let the guns go to drug dealers and hundreds of Mexicans and Americans were killed

- Holder had once represented and defended terrorists and drug cartel chiefs for big bucks while in private practice - Holder is going back into private practice - think about that

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236 posted on 09/28/2014 7:59:39 AM PDT by devolve (- "When Obama puts on a USMC T-Shirt to play basketball he still shoots 90% airballs! -)
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To: gleeaikin

- DID YOU NOTICE THE BIG FUSS OBAMA & HOLDER MADE ABOUT THE BARACK MUSLIM THAT BEHEADED A WOMAN IN OKLAHOMA?


237 posted on 09/28/2014 3:37:49 PM PDT by devolve (- "When Obama puts on a USMC T-Shirt to play basketball he still shoots 90% airballs! -)
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To: devolve; All

Decided to do a little research on this. First of all here is a link to an article which describes the beginning and continuation of these kinds of gun tracking programs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gunrunner

Then there is this statement from the article at: http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/sep/24/barack-obama/barack-obama-said-fast-and-furious-began-under-bus/

“The report also clearly shows that Fast and Furious began under the Obama administration, dating its inception to October 2009. (Obama took office in January 2009.) This directly contradicts Obama’s claim.

There is one mitigating factor, however: A program similar to Fast and Furious did go forward under the Bush administration in 2006 and 2007. That program, called Operation Wide Receiver, also attempted to track suspicious weapons. Allowing gun sales to go forward even when the ATF had probable cause to believe the sales were unlawful has come to be known as “gun walking.”

The two operations — Fast and Furious and Wide Receiver — had some similarities, and both were run out of the ATF’s Phoenix Field Division. The inspector general explored both programs in depth and found similar problems.

“The risk to public safety was immediately evident in both investigations,” the inspector general’s report states.

The White House told us that Obama was referring to the general practice of gun walking, which happened in both administrations. “The President was referring to the flawed tactic of gun-walking, which despite Republicans efforts to politicize this issue, began under the previous administration and it was our attorney general who ended it,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.”


238 posted on 09/29/2014 12:28:36 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Pyro7480

Indict, convict, incarcerate the bum.


239 posted on 09/29/2014 3:04:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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