Obama to Nominate Eric Holder for Attorney General

Newsweek reports:

President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential transition.

As a US Attorney, Holder chose not to prosecute the head of Hillary Clinton’s healthcare task force. The Obama campaign attacked Clinton for the secrecy surrounding the task force during the primaries… Eric Holder facilitated that secrecy.

He also completely missed the Mark Rich pardon. During the investigation, Holder commented,”I’m done. Public life’s over for me,  I had a moment in time. That moment has passed.” Holder continues, “If I had focused on this in a way that I could have, should have, the recommendation I would have given him would have been, ‘Don’t do this, Mr. President.”

Holder was also involved in kidnapping and sending an innocent refugee child to an oppressive, tyrannical regime. Holder even argued for the use of weapons in the Elian Gonzales seizure.

h/t Campaign Spot