Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Meet the new boss... same as the old boss


Another potential historic moment for women is denied by Obama as it appears that Clintonista, Eric Holder, will be his choice as Attorney General over the speculative front-runner, Janet Napolitano, current governor of Arizona.

Holder’s role was aptly described as “unconscionable” by a congressional committee. He steered Rich’s allies to retain the influential former White House counsel Jack Quinn (Holder later conceded he hoped Quinn would help him become attorney general in a Gore administration); he helped Quinn directly lobby Clinton, doing an end-run around the standard pardon process (including DOJ’s pardon attorney); and he kept the deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies prosecuting Rich so they couldn’t learn about the pardon application and register their objections.


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