What does fast and furious mean with eric holder?
He is trying to dodge the question for as long as possible. If he has nothing to hide, why not be open about it? Looks fishy to me. At least, that's how I look at it and I'm not a right winger. How about you?
What exactly does Eric Holder know?
He knows that when people start talking he is looking at prison time.
What is your opinion of Eric Holder, AG for Obama?
The only legal procedure error in his work I can identify or have been shown favored a group I am a member of. So I feel mildly greatful that he did his job as a civil servant competently and generally fairly. Misruling once in my favor was an ethical mistake, but It's one I'm inclined to forgive.Otherwise I feel nothing about him.Let's be honest here. That is high praise given how I feel about most of any Presidents inner circle. It's like being offered honest to God Kraft Mac and Cheese after being forced to eat premodern field rations or Nutraloaf for a few months. It may not be winning any Michelin Stars, but it's about the best thing you've ever tasted.You'd hire the guy to work at your factory. You wouldn't invite him out for drinks unless you need a last minute designated driver. Or if it was his birthday and he looked sad.So yeah, I nothing Eric Holder. I don't like or dislike him. I nothing him. That puts him near the top of my 2020 Presidential Wishlist. His campaign slogan can be “Generally Inoffensive”. I will send a donation. I respect honesty and recoil from the rest of the likely Candidates in varying shades of horror.Generally Inoffensive. 2020!
What will be Eric Holder's legacy?
His legacy will be this: he was the single most corrupt Attorney General - or executive level political figure - in American history. He apparently accepted bribes to allow crooks to escape prosecution, formed activities like Fast& Furious that got hundreds of Mexicans killed. Worse, he refused to ever allow disclosure laws (that HIS PARTY wrote) to allow Americans to see what his administration had done. He became Felix Dzherzhinsky before our very eyes.
Is it true that AG Eric Holder ran guns to Mexico, was found in contempt and never prosecuted?
Another question phrased in biased language, that is ridiculous on its face.“Operation Fast and Furious”, as it was called, was an attempt by the ATF (the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) to use tactics used in the police drug suppression investigative area. In the drug area, it involves getting the cooperation of low-level drug dealers (by whatever means necessary), having them make “buys” from higher-level dealers (and sometimes looking the other way while they sell the drugs, often the only way to keep up the front while the investigation is underway), and so on up the line in the hope of getting to the highest rung of the major drug players, the cartels. Often, undercover police officers are placed in harm’s way during these operations.Fast and Furious was ATF’s attempt to allow the illegal sale of firearms across the border to Mexico, in hopes of this leading them to the highest level purchasers, once again the cartels.I won't go into the details. You can easily find multiple accounts of this affair online.But, simply put, the operation failed spectacularly. A US DEA agent and the Mexican equivalent were both killed. The operation accomplished little in regard to the cartels, but then none of the DEA or other law enforcement operations have done much either.As to Eric Holder, he was cited for contempt of Congress at one point for not producing documents which Congress had subpoenaed. (7,000 pages of related documents had already been submitted). President Obama invoked “executive privilege” and the Justice Department documents were never given to Congress.At no time was Eric Holder personally running guns as your question implies. Per his testimony, he says that he was aware of the operation but not the details of it. Furthermore, for your information, the tactic of allowing guns to be illegally sold over the border was begun in 2006, under Attorney General Mukasey, during the Bush administration, in the operation called “Wide Receiver”, which also attempted to follow them to the cartels and other top Mexican criminals. Neither this nor the following operations were successful.Hopefully, we have learned something from this. Please Google “fast and furious gun running” or similar to read more about this.
Is it time for Obama to tell Eric Holder to give medals to the CIA interrogators that helped kill Osama?
As the whole of America takes a bin Laden victory lap, let us pause to remember some of this celebrated event's most forgotten men: the Central Intelligence Agency officers who sit under the cloud of a criminal investigation begun in 2009 by Attorney General Eric Holder into their interrogations of captured terrorists. That's right, the Americans whose interrogation of al Qaeda operatives may have put in motion the death of this mass murderer may themselves face prosecution by the country they were trying to protect. It is time for the Holder CIA investigation to end. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703937104576302890747157756.html
How did Eric Holder manage to stay at the Department of Justice this long? Why wasn't he pushed out sooner?
I don't think that Holder was pushed out, at all. He serves at the president's will, like any AG, once appointed, and by all accounts, President Obama was sorry to see him go. It seems clear that Holder acted as the president's proxy in some areas where Obama has felt he can't take an overt stand, especially regarding social justice and race--something one sees as recently as in Holder's trip to Ferguson, Missouri, and in the longer range in the Justice Department's unfolding focus on capital punishment and the inequalities and lack of efficacy in its application.The wording of this question contains a tacit assumption that Holder should have been pushed out sooner, or that he was pushed out at all, and I'm not sure this is accurate. Certainly it seems that he is leaving under his own steam--my sense is that Obama would prefer that he stay, perhaps partly because the confirmation battle for a new AG in a deadlocked congress is bound to be a messy one, and perhaps partly because Obama has consistently demonstrated a great deal of loyalty to his appointees.Whether Holder has "held on" as AG despite some of the failures on his watch--the position covers a lot of bureaucratic terrain and there certainly are some incidents in departments he oversees that have been unfortunate and messy--depends on how one parses the quality of his tenure. My sense is that Obama is canny enough to recognize the limits to any cabinet-level appointee's ability to control the inertial systems he or she oversees, and that Holder performed a very useful role for him, as a sort of proxy in matters of social justice.It seems clear to me that Holder is leaving for personal reasons, not being asked to go, and in that sense he has neither "held on" nor is being "pushed out." However one may judge his execution of his role., ultimately, he serves at the will of the president, and from everything I have read, Obama would have preferred that he stay in office.