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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Let's Hope Eric Holder Doesn't Join!

May 02, 2015 Baltimore Riots , Batimore 0 Comments
ISIS Using Baltimore Riots To Recruit 'Dissatisfied' Blacks

By Aaron Klein, WND
May 1, 2015

ISIS is taking advantage of racial tensions in the U.S. by attempting to recruit dissatisfied Muslims among the American black population.

This according to Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadiya Salafiya, an Islamist militant group in the Gaza Strip. Jihadiya Salafiya represents al-Qaida in Gaza and has made statements in support of ISIS.

Saqer, speaking to WND from Gaza, would not provide further details other than to confirm ISIS is taking advantage of what he described as the “growing movement within the black community toward Islam and the racist policies of the U.S. government.”

Saqer said he was not aware of whether ISIS actually recruited any dissatisfied black Muslims within the U.S. or whether any such cells have been established.

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Saturday, February 28, 2015

You Mean, Change Due Process So It Benefits Black Litigants?

February 28, 2015 Civil Rights , Eric Holder 0 Comments
Holder’s Parting Shot: It’s Too Hard To Bring Civil Rights Cases

Feb. 27, 2015

ALLEN: “Trayvon Martin’s mother says George Zimmerman got away with murder. You’re writing a letter to Trayvon’s mother, his parents, what will it say?”

HOLDER: “Well, I’m going to try to — it’s yeah — I’m going to pen a letter to them. I’ve worked on it already, and I think I’d like to kind of keep that personal. But one of the things it’s certainly going to talk about is my admiration for the way in which they have conducted themselves. The loss of a child is not something that we are biologically engineered to handle, and the dignity with which they have carried themselves, the determination that has been generated in them to make something positive out of the tragedy that they have had to endure has created in me a great deal of admiration for them.”

ALLEN: “Now, the Ferguson inquiry will be resolved before you leave?”

HOLDER: “Yes.”

ALLEN: “And it looks like no federal charges in Ferguson or Trayvon. I’m a young African-American. What do I think?”

HOLDER: “Well, I would say, first, I would note I have not announced anything with regard to — to Ferguson. “

ALLEN: “Yeah, it looks like it, yeah.”

HOLDER: “But what I said to the people of Ferguson is what I think people ought to understand, is that we have done independent, thorough investigations in all of the matters that we have examined, and we have brought record numbers of cases against police departments around this country. I don’t think anybody would be able to look at this Justice Department over the last six years and say that we’ve been anything other than aggressive in trying to root out inappropriate police conduct while, at the same time, trying to establish, or re-establish bonds of trust between communities of color and people in law enforcement.”

ALLEN: “Mr. Attorney General, are the standards of the civil rights laws too high for you to make cases in instances like this?”

HOLDER: “I mean that’s certainly something that I’m going to want to talk about before I leave. I think some serious consideration needs to be given to the standard of proof that has to be met before federal involvement is appropriate, and that’s something that I am going to be talking about before — before I leave office.”

ALLEN: And in what sense have you come to realize that the standards in the civil rights laws are too high?

HOLDER: “Well, I think that if we adjust those standards, we can make the federal government a better backstop, make us more a part of the process in an appropriate way to reassure the American people that decisions are made by people who are really disinterested, and I think that if we make those adjustments, we will have that capacity.”

ALLEN: “And what is the biggest adjustment you’d like to see?”

HOLDER: “Well, I’m not going to go into it right now, but I’m going to talk about that before I leave.”



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Then Why The Constant Whining?

February 28, 2015 Eric Holder , Mike Allen 0 Comments
Eric Holder: ‘It’s Hard To Say’ How Much Opposition to Me Has Been Based on Race

Feb. 27, 2015

 ALLEN: “Now, there clearly have been times more recently since then when you have felt disrespected on Capitol Hill. How much of that do you think relates to race?”

HOLDER: “It’s hard to say. You know, hard to look into people’s minds, you know, their hearts.”

ALLEN: “But were there times when you thought that was a piece of it?”

HOLDER: “Yeah, there have been times when I thought that’s at least a piece of it. I think that the primary motivator has probably been political in nature. I’ve not been a person who’s been reluctant to express my own views about certain things, and, you know, that’s kind of who I am, it’s the way I was raised, it’s how I’m wound, and I think that probably generated, you know, the greatest part of the criticism, the unfair treatment that — that I think I’ve got.”

ALLEN: “Now, the piece of it that was racial how did that make you feel?

HOLDER: “Yeah, it’s not something that I focused on an awful lot because, you know, the reality is I have a job to do — I had a job to do, and, you know, the criticism is going to come whatever its source. You can’t let it deflect you from, you know, keeping your eyes on the prize. I had to take a Justice Department that was in shambles, you know, when I got here: political hiring, political firing, exclusion of career people from decision making for political reasons. And so, I had to rebuild the department, put in place people who I thought would share my — my view of what this department ought to be.”

ALLEN: “So that’s all the Bush administration that you’re talking about there.”

HOLDER: “Yeah. I mean, you know, I mean these are all documented in the Inspector General reports. It was a low point for the Justice Department, an institution that I love. I’ve been here since 1976, you know, in some form or fashion. And so, we had to rebuild the department and then, on the basis of that rebuilding, you know, advance the things that I felt [were] really important: criminal justice reform; protecting, you know, voting rights; dealing with LGBT issues; protecting the national security while at the same time adhering to our values.”

ALLEN: “Last question about the Hill: Do you think that Attorney General Lynch will get more respectful treatment?”

HOLDER: “Time will tell. You know, if one looks at the trend lines, I’m a little concerned. She had a relatively uneventful hearing, and you would have thought that, you know, on that day she might have gotten maybe a unanimous or close-to-unanimous vote out of the committee, and she got a pretty substantial number of negative votes now, and you’re hearing about things that might happen on the floor. But you know what? Loretta’s the kind of person who is, you know, even-tempered but determined, and whatever the criticism, it’s not going to deflect her. But I do think she has the capacity, if people are willing — if people are willing, she has the capacity to reach across the aisle and actually forge a consensus, especially around an issue like criminal justice reform, you know, that has gotten the right and the left together, the ACLU and the Koch brothers. I mean, you know, there’s the real — there’s a chance there for something really positive to be done.”



ALLEN: “How much of the criticism of President Obama is infected with race?”

HOLDER: “Hard to tell. You know, I certainly don’t think that that’s the primary thing that happens in Washington. I think there are, you know, fringe people around the country.”

ALLEN: “More than fringe.”

HOLDER: “Well, you know, I mean, fringe people around the country who will say, you know, racially based things, but I think, you know –“

ALLEN: “But the non-fringe, the other people who criticize this president or have a beef with this president — like, how often do think race is part of that?”

HOLDER: “You know, it’s — it’s hard to tell. I mean, it’s really hard to tell. I mean, you know, people, when they are going after you, try to come up with what they think is going to be the most effective technique, and so they use a whole variety of things. You know, you weren’t born in this country, you are the other. I mean, you come up with other — you come up with ways in which you try to be effective in your attacks. And certain people have been, you know, less sensitive than they should have been to understand that certain things, given our history — there are certain places that you just shouldn’t — you shouldn’t go.”

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Explain "core al-qaeda" vs "non=core al-qaeda?

February 28, 2015 Eric Holder , Jeff Pegues 0 Comments
Holder on ISIS Fight: ‘I Think We Are Winning’

Feb. 7, 2015

 HOLDER: “I think if you look at the recent battlefield successes that we had, plans that are underway with regard to Mosul for instance, the degradation of ISIL leadership, I think we are winning. This is not a battle that’s gonna be won overnight. It will take time.”

PEGUES: “But national security, are we safer now than before this administration came into office?”

HOLDER: “Al Qaeda core, I think, has been decimated but its portions are now things that we have to be concerned about that we were not concerned about, I think, when this administration started. And then the homegrown — the homegrown component to this struggle is something that is new.”



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Friday, February 6, 2015

"there has 'been no politicization'..."

February 06, 2015 Eric Holder , Hans A. von Spakovsky 0 Comments
Eric Holder's State of Historic Denial

By John Fund and Hans A. von Spakovsky, Feb. 6, 2015, NationalReview.com

Departing attorney general Eric Holder’s claim this week in a press conference that there has “been no politicization” of the Justice Department under him makes it appear as if he is living in aPotemkin-like state of denial in the main Justice building. Holder went so far as to claim that he had been forced to clean up the department he took over from the Bush administration. “You want to look at a Justice Department that’s been politicized, you look at the one I inherited,” he claimed.

When we were researching our recent book on Holder’s six-year tenure at Justice, we talked to numerous career employees who were shocked at how much further Holder had gone than any previous administration in politicizing Justice. One longtime lawyer in the Civil Rights Division told us that Holder had racialized and radicalized the Division to the point of corruption. They embedded politically leftist extremists in the career ranks who have an agenda that does not comport with equal protection or the rule of law; who believe that the ends justify the means; and who behave unprofessionally and unethically.

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Friday, November 7, 2014

Rev is Sharpton's Obama's BFF

November 07, 2014 Dailycaller.com , Eric Holder 0 Comments
Did Al Sharpton Just Pick The Next Attorney General?

By Patrick Howley, Nov. 7, 2014, Dailycaller.com

An MSNBC host may have just chosen the next attorney general of the United States.

President Obama is expected to nominate Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as attorney general of the United States, just two days after Obama’s post-election meeting with Al Sharpton and weeks after Lynch’s own meeting with Sharpton.

Lynch is known to be close to Holder due to her membership in the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee.

Lynch was appointed U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York by President Obama in 2010. She rose to prominence as a prosecutor on the team that convicted New York police officers in the 1999 Abner Louima assault case.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Send them to the IRS!

November 04, 2014 Discrimination , Eric Holder 0 Comments
Justice Department Dispatches Poll Monitors For Election Day

Josh Hicks, Nov. 3, 2014, Washington Post

The Justice Department has dispatched federal poll monitors to 18 states in an effort to prevent voter discrimination ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday.

The monitors will look for race-based discrimination and inadequate resources for bilingual voters and individuals with disabilities, the agency said in a statement on Monday.

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Monday, October 27, 2014

ATTENTION: Eric Holder

October 27, 2014 Democrat , Elections 0 Comments
Machines Flip GOP Votes To Democrats In Maryland

Kenric Ward, Oct. 25, 2014, Examiner.com 

Voting machines that switch Republican votes to Democrats are being reported in Maryland.

“When I first selected my candidate on the electronic machine, it would not put the ‘x’ on the candidate I chose -- a Republican -- but it would put the ‘x’ on the Democrat candidate above it,” reported Donna Hamilton.

“This happened multiple times with multiple selections. Every time my choice flipped from Republican to Democrat. Sometimes it required four or five tries to get the ‘x’ to stay on my real selection,” the Frederick, Md., resident said Thursday.

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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Nets Still Ignore DOJ Considering Pardons for 1000's of Drug Offenders --How many were violent who pled to lesser?!

April 27, 2014 Attorney General , DOJ 0 Comments
By Matt Hardo, Apr. 24, 2014, Newsbusters.org

The broadcast networks have still not reported a new Justice Department initiative that would consider clemency for thousands of drug offenders.

As NewsBusters reported on Tuesday, Monday evening's news casts ignored the story while Fox News reported it. The broadcast network blackout continued through Tuesday and Wednesday. Fox News continued with the story on Wednesday evening as Special Report fill-in host Shannon Bream reported that "the nation's top cop today outlined a plan to get more people out of prison."

"Attorney general Eric Holder says thousands more inmates will soon be eligible for clemency," Bream provided the latest from the story. Correspondent Carl Cameron reported, "The Justice Department today announced new guidelines for non-violent drug offenders to apply for clemency from President Obama, and downplayed any risk."

Not just Fox News has reported the story, however. The Los Angeles Times said the administration's initiative "is expected to be a large-scale grant of clemency." Politico noted that the President "is preparing to make much broader use of his power to grant commutations." NPR's Politics blog noted the President will be given "far more latitude" to pardon or commute the sentences of the drug offenders.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

GOP Writes Bill To Deny Eric Holder His Salary--Since He's Been Found In Contempt --0 chance of passing senate

April 16, 2014 Bill To Deny Eric Holder His Salary , Blake Farenthold 0 Comments
By Stephen Dinan, Apr. 15, 2014, The Washington Times

A Republican congressman has introduced a bill that would stop government paychecks for officials who have been found in contempt of Congress — a move that seems designed in the short term to go after Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

Mr. Holder has refused to cooperate with House Republicans’ probe into the Fast & Furious gun-walking operation, and the House has voted to find him in contempt. Mr. Holder is challenging that vote in court.

Rep. Blake Farenthold, a Texas Republican who publicly excoriated Mr. Holder at a hearing last week, introduced the legislation just before Congress went on vacation, and announced it Tuesday.

“The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials’ bad behavior,” Mr. Farenthold said.

Mr. Holder appeared before the House Judiciary Committee last week and faced harsh barbs over his defense of Obama administration policies. He bristled at having been held in contempt.

“You don’t want to go there, buddy, all right?” Mr. Holder barked at one congressman who speculated that the attorney general wasn’t taking the contempt accusation seriously. “I think that it was inappropriate. I think it was unjust. But never think that that was not a big deal to me. Don’t ever think that.”

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

MSNBC’s Williams: ‘No One Threatened to Impeach George Bush’ --Except Biden, Conyers (D-Mich), Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh)

MSNBC’s Williams: ‘No One Threatened to Impeach George Bush’ --Except Biden, Conyers (D-Mich), Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh)

April 15, 2014 Eric Holder , George W. Bush 0 Comments
By Paul Bremmer, Apr. 14, 2014, Newsbusters.org

MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams blurred the lines of reality while arguing with Republican strategist Ron Christie on Sunday’s Weekends with Alex Witt. The two men were sparring over the desire among some Republicans to impeach Attorney General Eric Holder. [Video below. MP3 audio here.]

Witt asked how Holder can work with Republicans when some of them are calling for his impeachment, and Christie responded with an example from the George W. Bush presidency:

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Forbes: How Obama's Justice Department Selectively Blocks Mergers By Republican CEOs --WHAT???!!!!

April 15, 2014 Department of Justice , Eric Holder 0 Comments
By Kerri Toloczko, Apr. 14, 2014, Forbes.com

Like all mergers, the proposed $45.2 billion Comcast CMCSA -0.25% merger with Time Warner Cable TWC +0.07%—the largest and second largest cable providers in the nation—has its advocates and critics.  There are certainly important questions about what impact the merger would have on consumers—but there are equally significant issues associated with the highly politicized approval process.

The Obama Department of Justice, led by Eric Holder, must review the merger and decide whether to approve or block it.  Unfortunately, the Obama Administration and Justice Department have a long track record of pushing the rule of law aside and making decisions based on politics.   Will the proposed Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable receive the scrutiny it deserves, or simply be fast-tracked for approval based on politics?

Let’s look at some history—which is detailed in a new Frontiers of Freedom report.  In 2009, the Obama Administration gave Solyndra, a failing California solar panel firm, a $536 million “loan.”  Shortly thereafter, Solyndra was fully bankrupt.  Prior to the loan, Solyndra executives and board members gave generously to Barack Obama, including Tulsa oil billionaire and Obama bundler George Kaiser, one of Solyndra’s main investors.

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Holder: 'What Atty General has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?' --Gee, let's see Ashcroft, Gonzales...

April 10, 2014 Attorney General , Eric Holder 0 Comments


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Monday, April 7, 2014

Al Sharpton, FBI Informant--Untold Story Of How Activist Once Aided Probes Of NYC Wiseguys --Probably cut a deal

April 07, 2014 Attorney General , Beyonce and Jay Z 0 Comments
By The Smoking Gun, Apr. 7, 2014

 *** Also in the article:  According to its most recent IRS return, which Sharpton signed in mid-November 2013, the National Action Network pays him $241,402 annually for serving as president and CEO. In return for that hefty salary, Sharpton--who hosts a three-hour daily radio show in addition to his nightly cable TV program--reportedly works a 40-hour week for the not-for-profit (which lists unpaid tax liabilities totaling $813,576). ***

When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia informant.

That same man attended February’s state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande. He was seated with his girlfriend at a table adjacent to President Barack Obama, who is likely unaware that, according to federal agents, his guest once interacted with members of four of New York City’s five organized crime families. He even secretly taped some of those wiseguys using a briefcase that FBI technicians outfitted with a recording device.


The high-profile Obama supporter was also on the dais atop the U.S. Capitol steps last year when the president was sworn in for a second term. He wasseated in front of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two rows behind Beyonce and Jay Z, and about 20 feet from Eric Holder, the country’s top law enforcement officer. As head of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Holder leads an agency that once reported that Obama’s inauguration guest also had La Cosa Nostra contacts beyond Gotham, and engaged in “conversations with LCN members from other parts of the United States.”

The former mob snitch has become a regular in the White House, where he has met with the 44th president in the East Room, the Roosevelt Room, and the Oval Office. He has also attended Obama Christmas parties, speeches, policy announcements, and even watched a Super Bowl with the First Family (an evening the man has called “one of the highlights of my life”). During these gatherings, he has mingled with cabinet members, top Obama aides, military leaders, business executives, and members of Congress. His former confederates were a decidedly dicier lot: ex-convicts, extortionists, heroin traffickers, and mob henchmen. The man’s surreptitious recordings, FBI records show, aided his government handlers in the successful targeting of powerful Mafia figures with nicknames like Benny Eggs, Chin, Fritzy, Corky, and Baldy Dom.

Later this week, Obama will travel to New York and appear in a Manhattan hotel ballroom at the side of the man whom FBI agents primarily referred to as “CI-7”--short for confidential informant #7--in secret court filings. In those documents, investigators vouched for him as a reliable, productive, and accurate source of information about underworld figures.
Source:  The Smoking Gun
The ex-informant has been one of Obama’s most unwavering backers, a cheerleader who has nightly bludgeoned the president’s Republican opponents in televised broadsides. For his part, Obama has sought the man’s counsel, embraced him publicly, and saluted his “commitment to fight injustice and inequality.” The president has even commented favorably on his friend’s svelte figure, the physical manifestation of a rehabilitation effort that coincided with Obama’s ascension to the White House. This radical makeover has brought the man wealth, a daily TV show, bespoke suits, a luxury Upper West Side apartment, and a spot on best seller lists.

Most importantly, he has the ear of the President of the United States, an equally remarkable and perplexing achievement for the former FBI asset known as “CI-7,” the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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