Holder Should Resign, but Obama Is the Problem

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Commentary Magazine: Holder Should Resign, but Obama Is the Problem

Peter Wehner | @Peter_Wehner 05.31.2013 - 2:55 PM

A prediction: there will be an effort by Team Obama to rally around Eric Holder, but before too long he will resign as attorney general. He’ll do so because he’s doing considerable, even durable, damage to the president–and the president, well-versed in the Chicago Way, will jettison Holder if he determines it’s in his political interest.

 

It is.

 

The attorney general is being criticized, and being urged to resign, from those on both the left and the right. The House of Representative is considering looking into whether Mr. Holder committed perjury (he clearly misled Congress on his role in the James Rosen matter). And in the background of all this is the fact that Holder is a man of unusual incompetence.

 

Set aside Holder’s record of pushing to reopen an investigation of CIA interrogators who had already been cleared by career prosecutors and wanting to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian court in Manhattan.

 

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May 31st, 2013

07:48 AM ET

Justice Dept. says Holder didn't lie before congressional committee

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CNN Political Unit

(CNN) – Attorney General Eric Holder's sworn testimony before lawmakers this month was "accurate and consistent with the facts," a Justice Department spokesman stressed late Thursday.

Holder's statements at the May 15 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee have come under scrutiny from congressional Republicans, who are looking into whether the attorney general lied under oath earlier this month when he said he wasn't involved in the "potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material." snip

CNN's Carol Cratty and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/31/justice-dept-says-holder-didnt-lie-before-congressional-committee/?hpt=po_c2