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5 May 2017, 6:35 am by Joe May
New York – City Pays for Mets Moment, Guided by Firm with Troubled Ties to de BlasioNew York Times – J. [read post]
26 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm by Ronald D. Rotunda
Disclosure will warn future IRS employees that if they politicize the IRS, they will be exposed.Then there is Operation Fast and Furious, the unsuccessful (to put it mildly) federal firearms sting operation, which allowed about 2,000 military grade weapons to reach Mexican drug gangs and led to the death of an agent of the United States Border Patrol.Congress, for the first time ever, held Eric Holder in contempt for his failure to release documents related to this gun transfer. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 9:06 am by Chris Calabrese
Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder both said they did not know about it until a few weeks prior to the killing and did not authorize it. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 9:06 am by Chris Calabrese
Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder both said they did not know about it until a few weeks prior to the killing and did not authorize it. [read post]
5 Mar 2017, 2:30 pm by Jane Chong
For an articulation of the middle ground between the President’s supremacy when it comes to intelligence consumption and the need to protect the Justice Department from White House interference in ongoing investigations, recall again that 2009 Eric Holder memo setting out limitations on communications between the White House and Justice Department. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 8:41 am by Douglas A. Berman
” Sessions, who turns 70 on Christmas Eve, has called marijuana reform a "tragic mistake" and criticized FBI Director James Comey and Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch for not vigorously enforcing a the federal prohibition that President Obama has called “untenable over the long term. [read post]
8 Nov 2016, 6:10 am by Jane Chong
Four years ago, then Attorney General Eric Holder came under fire for his part in a very different kind of classified-documents saga: Holder kept the FBI’s discovery of then CIA Director David Petraeus’s extramarital affair and improper communications with Paula Broadwell secret from Congress, the White House, and the Director of National Intelligence until the evening of and day after the 2012 presidential election. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 5:06 pm by Benjamin Wittes
” Written by a gentleman named Riley Roberts, a former speechwriter for Eric Holder, it’s the kind of piece that should prompt a certain amount of soul-searching at the publication that agreed to publish it. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 10:44 am by Chris Castle
 Of course, if the Obama Administration intends to request Senate confirmation of Hesse and William J. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 8:22 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
On May 14, 2013, Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the FBI is pursuing an investigation into the matter. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 6:02 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
TIGTA issues its initial report on the matter as Attorney General Eric Holder announces an FBI investigation. [read post]
11 Jun 2016, 12:35 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
Perhaps seizing on the spate of good publicity that Snowden has received courtesy of Eric Holder and VICE in recent days, Paul Rosenzweig asked Snowden—tongue firmly in cheek—whether he knew any would-be whistleblowers at the IRS who could disclose Donald Trump’s true net worth for the world to know. [read post]
5 Dec 2015, 10:45 am by John Floyd
  In September 2014, former Attorney General Eric Holder told the NYU Law School:   “For my colleagues and me – at every level of the Department of Justice – instilling in others an expectation that there will be tough enforcement of all applicable laws is an essential ingredient in ensuring that corporate actors weigh their incentives properly – and do not ignore massive risks in blind pursuit of profits. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 4:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
To address this issue, then-Attorney General Holder launched the Federal Interagency Reentry Council in 2011. [read post]