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Related: About this forumHow long can Eric Holder hang on?
It's been a long, fraught tenure rife with faux-scandals and near-misses. But the AP phone flap could be different
BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD
When Attorney General Eric Holder walked into a hearing room in the Rayburn House office building yesterday, he must have expected that lawmakers would rake him over the coals for his departments snooping on AP reporters, but he didnt seem nervous. After all, this pageant of scandal and Congressional grilling has become routine for Holder, who has been a lightning rod since the first days of the Obama Administration.
After almost four and half years on the job, hes been the first attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress, been called rabidly un-American, and even reportedly tried to resign. A LexisNexis search for Eric Holder grilled and Congress returns 534 articles. Attorneys general dont often last two presidential terms.
Could the AP phone records controversy could be a tipping point for the embattled AG, whom even Democrats have been wary to support?
The sheer number of controversies, real or imagined, befalling Holder is astonishing. From the left, hes taken heat from the likes of Elizabeth Warren for saying big banks are too big to prosecute; from civil liberties advocates for prosecuting twice as many leakers as were prosecuted under every other previous president; and from Obamas liberal base for opposing liberalization of marijuana laws.
Early on in Holders tenure, the Justice Department earned a black eye for its handling of the corruption case against the late Sen. Ted Stevens. Holder replaced the entire prosecution team and handled the situation about as well as possible, but it nonetheless planted doubt about politicization inside the nations top law enforcement agency.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/05/16/how_much_longer_can_holder_hang_on/
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How long can Eric Holder hang on? (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2013
OP
That's gossip spread by a "Michael" Sneed who spread the "Obama had an affair with a staffer" rumor.
BlueCaliDem
May 2013
#5
Holder has recused himself from the AP investigation that the republicans called for.
shraby
May 2013
#3
Holder is stronger than many of us give him credit for. He'll be fine. He survived the Clinton
Liberal_Stalwart71
May 2013
#8
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)1. the Ted Stevens prosecution happened under Bush, so that
has fuck-all to do with Holder.
jehop61
(1,735 posts)2. Chicago Sun Times
reported today that he will leave when all dies down and Deval Patrick will replace him. (sorry don't know how to link. Check Sneeds column).
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)5. That's gossip spread by a "Michael" Sneed who spread the "Obama had an affair with a staffer" rumor.
Geek Tragedy wrote a post on her - yes, that's a her:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=306266
shraby
(21,946 posts)3. Holder has recused himself from the AP investigation that the republicans called for.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)4. I have never had a problem with Holder.
The AG position is always fraught with controversy.
MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)6. Until the end of this term.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)7. The republicans are frightened what he might do to them
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)8. Holder is stronger than many of us give him credit for. He'll be fine. He survived the Clinton
years. He'll survive this!
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)9. Holder ain't going no FUCKING WHERE!!!!!
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