Bush’s former deputy attorney general Jim Comey: ‘Eric Holder should be confirmed.’

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from ThinkProgress:



Bush’s former deputy attorney general: ‘Eric Holder should be confirmed.’»

Recently, conservatives have been rallying behind Karl Rove’s call to obstruct Attorney General nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation hearings, citing the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich. Today, former deputy attorney general Jim Comey, who famously clashed with the Bush administration on illegal wiretapping, endorsed Holder, saying he will ensure that the DOJ is free from political influence:

I know a lot of good people who have made significant mistakes. I think Mr. Holder’s may actually make him a better steward of the Department of Justice because he has learned a hard lesson about protecting the integrity of that great institution from political fixers. I’m not suggesting errors of judgment are qualification for high office, but in this case, where the nominee is a smart, decent, humble man, who knows and loves the Department and has demonstrated his commitment to the rule of law across an entire career, the error should not disqualify him. Eric Holder should be confirmed as Attorney General.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/22/comey-endorses-holder/

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. What mistakes?

If he's talking about the Marc Rich pardon, well, fuck him. That was no mistake. A President's power to pardon is fucking ABSOLUTE, and he answers to NO ONE for whatever he decides to do. While that may cause our heads to explode when Fuckface drops his bomb just before January 20, 2009, it must be so. The framers of the Constitution knew what they were doing.

Anyone who tries to characterize Holder's participation in the decision to pardon Rich is full of shit.

Holder's golden. I know him. He's led an exmplary personal and professional life. He will be - I really believe this - the greatest AG our country has ever had, and Ramsey Clark is an old friend of mine (he wasn't so hot as AG, though).

Mistakes, my ass............................

[Captain Hilts]

2. The Rich pardon was a favor to Israel's PM Barak, who lost his job for accepting Clinton's...

Middle East Peace Plan in the summer of '00.