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14 Jun 2016, 6:13 am
The bill will update FOIA by codifying the “presumption of openness” established in President Barack Obama’s Open Government Memorandum, subsequent Open Government Directive, and Attorney General Eric Holder’s FOIA memorandum; requiring that information be made available to the public in an electronic format; limiting, to a period of 25 years, the ability of agencies to keep internal deliberations… [read post]
14 Jun 2016, 6:13 am
The bill will update FOIA by codifying the “presumption of openness” established in President Barack Obama’s Open Government Memorandum, subsequent Open Government Directive, and Attorney General Eric Holder’s FOIA memorandum; requiring that information be made available to the public in an electronic format; limiting, to a period of 25 years, the ability of agencies to keep internal deliberations… [read post]
11 Jun 2016, 12:35 pm
Jack reflected on how Snowden’s revelations — which former attorney general Eric Holder praised last week as a “public service” — inadvertently strengthened and entrenched some of the intelligence community’s very practices that Snowden sought to dismantle while also forcing the agency to consider the benefits of greater transparency. [read post]
5 Jun 2016, 7:56 am
And as Thomas Catan tells us in the Wall Street Journal, Attorney General Eric Holder apologized to Google for the U.S. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 5:59 am
[Tallahassee Democrat] * Former attorney general Eric Holder says NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden performed a "public service" by sparking a debate over government surveillance -- but still must pay a price for his illegal actions. [read post]
31 May 2016, 1:50 pm
Here are the bullet points.IRS doubted the Obama administration had legal authority to spend the projected $3.9 billion on health insurance premium subsidiesAttendees were given an OMB memo outlining the salient points of the proposed spendingAttendees could read and discuss the memo, but could not take notes or copiesThen Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on the legality of government subsidiesThe Obama administration failed to get Congress to sign off on… [read post]
31 May 2016, 1:13 pm
“A human catastrophe is unfolding in Fallujah,” says Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council. [read post]
17 Apr 2016, 8:27 am
(emphasis added) Geist also complains that the objectives set out in the IP chapter of the TPP do not maintain “a balance between rights holders and users on all IP provisions”. [read post]
3 Apr 2016, 9:15 pm
Payments under the program were halted in December (because federal funds had run short) and then, in the final days of his service as Attorney General, Eric Holder announced that he would apply new rules limiting the scope of the practice. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 7:55 pm
As one of his final official acts before stepping down, Attorney General Eric Holder imposed some constraints on equitable sharing last year. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 2:19 pm
" While the administration didn't set a target for the number of cases, former Attorney General Eric Holder told the Washington Post last year that he had hoped that as many as 10,000 people could have their sentences reduced under the program. [read post]
7 Mar 2016, 1:45 pm
Even former United States Attorney General Eric Holder recently expressed his belief that marijuana “ought to be rescheduled. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 11:35 am
Attorney General Eric Holder publicly stated that the Justice Department needed these reforms in order to get information about financial crimes. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 10:32 am
In 2010, he received the Director's Award from United States Attorney General Eric Holder for superior performance for his work in the prosecution of United States v. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 11:07 am
Enter New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman. [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 4:03 am
*As of this date, the FOIA website still lists Eric Holder as Attorney General, even though he has been replaced by Loretta Lynch. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 1:30 pm
Holder on Policing and Racism: The contrasting views between FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Eric Holder on race, crime and the police, and the fact that Holder's statements were given much more attention than Comey's, exemplifies the tendency for the mainstream to bury its head in the sand in spite of "essentially irrefutable data" that shows the disproportionate amount of crime committed by people… [read post]
15 Jan 2016, 1:51 pm
In the crowd today is Major General James Livingston, who's the co-chairman of my campaign here in South Carolina, a Medal of Honor recipient. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 2:50 pm
But then-Attorney General Eric Holder undermined the OLC from the get-go (see Page 17 in the link), and Obama ignored it in the key test, Libya. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 3:56 am
Obama has issued a total of 184 commutations and 66 pardons -- more grants, as the White House wasted no time in pointing out, than the last six presidents combined....By the administration's own estimates, [however], as many as 10,000 people could be released under the new criteria, former Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. told The Washington Post this month. [read post]
