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Likely New AG Nominee Holder Spoke of Holding Weepy Reno in Arms
November 18, 2008 6:02 PM
In April 2000, then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder appeared on "Good Morning America" where he discussed the controversial raid on the home of Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives to seize the child and return him to Cuba.
And he told Diane Sawyer about an unusual behind-the-scenes moment he shared with Attorney General Janet Reno.
"At the conclusion of this, I closed the door, at the time of the raid, and I held the attorney general in my arms, and she wept," Holder said. "She did not want this to happen. She cares a great deal about that community, and hoped and prayed that there was a way in which this thing could have been worked out, short of the enforcement action that she very reluctantly had to order."
Holder has now emerged as President-elect Obama's top pick to be attorney general. President-elect Obama has made it clear he'd like to appoint Holder, and Holder has expressed interest in the job, though the process is still moving forward with vetting and transition officials assessing how difficult Holder's confirmation hearing might be, given his involvement in the Gonzalez saga and the Marc Rich pardon.
The early word is he seems confirmable.
- jpt
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Energymain......?? The Democrats won!!
Posted by: orangecat | Nov 18, 2008 11:02:03 PM
Just four years past...
Any way this unfolds the Republicans will be in power at least for the next decade.
The Democrates are in total disarray and the Dem circular firing squad has formed and the shooting has ensued.
Independent Party, Green Party, Libertarians, Here's your chance to compete with the Republicans.
The Democrates are in a tailspin and still out of touch, clueless and waffling as ever.
Howard Dean the III is beginning to see that the big 1000 pound gorilla is still in the Dem tent.
Note to Dean. Follow Powell's lead and get out.
There have been 18 Republican residents and 15 Democratic Presidents...
Glad I didn't vote for Jimmy Carter the 2nd! Two years to go and the stampede will be on!
Posted by: EnergyMain | Nov 18, 2008 10:52:30 PM
Orangecat: Who is Bush Jr.? I feel that people along with the media don't have the right to be critical of a person that they can't even get his name right. He has been the President for the last eight years and has NEVER been in his life bush jr.
Posted by: Shawn | Nov 18, 2008 10:03:39 PM
Why didn't Janet Reno cry in Waco,Tex. when she had women and children burned to death?She was so hell bent on getting that so called cult down that she had military forces ram and punch holes with tanks into their home based church.Their blood is on her hands,yet she cries about one Cuban boy who needed to be sent back "alive" to his father in Cuba? I live here in Texas.. watched it all...so don't give me any..but the children were abused bull crap!May Reno burn in hell along with Bush Jr.
Posted by: orangecat | Nov 18, 2008 9:14:49 PM
Eric Holder is the attorney who helped Clinton rush through the Marc Rich pardon.....and this is change we can believe in???????
Are you kidding? Eric Holder is the BEST candidate for AG???? The guy who made possible the pardon of Marc Rich???
If Obama keeps this up, he is going to lose our confidence even before he gets into office.
Posted by: Suzanne | Nov 18, 2008 8:59:35 PM
How Loooooooooooooong does the media keep rehashing old stories?
So the guy got a criminal pardoned, how many lawyers( worth their salt) have not freed a guilty person?
And Elian was an undocumented immigrant, while the story is touching, it is done, and over, and Elian is probably a lawyer himself by now, I hope.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Posted by: How Long? | Nov 18, 2008 8:57:34 PM
I don't understand...we vote for change and we get another four years of Clinton administration members?
If that's what we wanted, why didn't we just vote for Hillary?
I'm wondering where the REAL change is?
Posted by: Suzanne | Nov 18, 2008 8:55:03 PM
I love seeing all the Obama supporters crying foul. Did you all really expect change? Obama better get it right it seems he wants everyone on the clinton administration except the real clintons
Posted by: rachel | Nov 18, 2008 8:14:44 PM
HMMMM....WHAT THE "OBAMiNATION" MEANT BY CHANGE IS THE SLOW ELIMINATION OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!!
Posted by: CYNTHIA F. | Nov 18, 2008 8:03:43 PM
Quit griping about your version of "change." We could have had Sarah Palin and her wolf shooting cronies. The Clintons chose the best they could find, and Obama agrees. Why should he not raid the Clinton brain trust?
Posted by: Shockolit | Nov 18, 2008 7:50:43 PM
Every single presidential candidate who ran, including all the Republicans, offered "change". Most of them were able to articulate what they meant by that, except Obama. Now you are learning that his "change" was just the same as all the others - he's not George W. Bush.
What you are also learning is just how much of a hypocritical liar he is. He had you all convinced, totally convinced, that voting for Hillary Clinton was voting for more of the same. Fools.
Posted by: Keith | Nov 18, 2008 7:46:36 PM
TRW--- Please, the sermon was complete and consise for neqarly 2 years. "I will say what I have said many times before, I will bring change to Washington". The change he sold to the people was not to rehire the Clinton cronies. The change was not to hire Hillary. The change was to bring new life a new administration. Not to resussitate a dead administration!
Posted by: roscoe02 | Nov 18, 2008 7:04:03 PM
Any way this unfolds the Democrats will be in power at least for the next decade.
The republican are in total disarray and the GOP circular firing squad has formed and the shooting has ensued.
Independent Party, Green Party, Libertarians, Here's your chance to compete with the Democrats.
The republicans are in a tailspin and still out of touch, clueless and so rigid as ever.
LtGov Steele is beginning to see that the big 1000 pound gorilla is still in the GOP tent.
Note to Steele. Follow Powell's lead and get out.
When Powell was considering runnging for Pres. the GOP threw him under the bus before he was even on the bus.
Posted by: Omentum | Nov 18, 2008 6:58:31 PM
Please, no FUD, people. Give our new leader time and keep the faith. What you perceive now may turn out a lot different in the future.
Definitely for the better, too.
Posted by: Majus | Nov 18, 2008 6:55:31 PM
Kevin ---- He promised change! Change from the Washington Establishment. So far, there has been no evidence of change. It is simply a revitalization of the Clinton Establishment! Is there no one else out there in the world to choose from??? Get real! The options are vast, beyond all immagination! But we have someone in charge of this transition who is clueless, inexperienced, and at a loss for knowing what to do. He realizes that his political associates from Chicago would be out of their realm. So, he has no alternatives than the HILLBILLY associates. What kind of change is this?
Posted by: roscoe02 | Nov 18, 2008 6:53:52 PM
Oh gosh, please call me when the adults have come back to town. If I read one more person beat the dead horse about how hiring people that used to work in the Clinton administration is not "change" I am going to be ill.
I don't recall Pres. Obama ever saying that he wouldn't hire anyone from the Clinton era. In fact, when the question came up, he said that he wanted to find talent wherever he could get it. So are the people who dared to be Democrats, and dared to be hired by the Clinton administration forever shunned to oblivion?
Give me a break. Pundits keep crowing about how this will be the most difficult presidential transition in modern history. Color me surprised that the Pres. elect chooses to surround himself with people that have experience, and expertise in what they do because, shock, horror, gasp, they used to work for another Democrat 8 years ago.
Some people really do need to grow up.
Posted by: TRW | Nov 18, 2008 6:52:56 PM
When you have no experience, you need to rely on the experiences of others, I understand this. But, somehow, I don't believe that this is the "Change" that the American people were counting on. BHO led all of his folloewrs to believe that the "Change" would be real change, not a retreat to the Clinton era. He NEVER led anyone to believe that this is what he intended to do. "Change you can count on"!
Posted by: roscoe02 | Nov 18, 2008 6:41:33 PM
Now speculation that Hillary may turn down SOS and that Obama has not officially offered it to her, hmm I bet he picks everyone from clinton administration except a clinton just to stick it to Hillary. For an adminstration he criticized during the primaries Obama is sure loving the people that worked in it.
Posted by: rachel | Nov 18, 2008 6:41:15 PM
Obama promised change in policy from Bush, not change from the boom times of Clinton. So you clowns expect him not to hire anybody that worked for Clinton? If he does not hire any Democrats that worked for Clinton, who do you expect him to hire? You expect him to manufacture people from whole cloth? You mindless clowns.
Posted by: Kevin | Nov 18, 2008 6:33:19 PM
Yes Jen, this is the change we were promised. When you do not have the experience needed to do a job, you surround yourself with those that can.
Posted by: Shawn | Nov 18, 2008 6:26:04 PM
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