Copyrighted Image? DMCA | So Eric Holder is finally resigning as Attorney General. Good riddance!
He failed miserably in five crucial areas. First, he refused to prosecute George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld for breaking the treaty against torture and the statutes that also prohibit it. Second, he let Wall Street CEOs off the hook for messing around with mortgage derivatives, misleading investors and clients, and crashing our economy. Third, he prosecuted more whistleblowers than any other Attorney General, and he used the hideous 1917 Sedition Act to go after them. He even pursued James Risen, the terrific New York Times reporter, threatening him with jail. Fourth, he defended the NSA's vaccuuming up of all of our phone calls, and the mass surveillance of us on the Internet. And he invoked the doctrine of "State Secrets" to get away with it. And fifth ..... |