Attorney General Holder reminds Sessions who’s boss.

[ProSense]

Attorney General Holder reminds Sessions who’s boss.

This morning, Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) slammed the Justice Department’s release of Bush-era memos authorizing the use of torture on terrorist suspects, telling Holder that his “predecessor, Judge Mukasey, and Mr. Hayden,” the former Director of National Intelligence, “didn’t approve of that at all.” Holder reminded Sessions that Mukasey and Hayden were no longer in charge:

SESSIONS: Well it was disapproved by your predecessor, Judge Mukasey, and Mr. Hayden, the CIA, um, DIA director. They didn’t approve of that at all. … You were willing to release matters that the DNI and the Attorney General believe were damaging to our national security.

HOLDER: Well, one attorney general thought that. I am the Attorney General of the United States, and it is this attorney general’s view that the release of that information was appropriate, as well as the president of the United States. I respect their opinion, but I had to make the decision, holding the office that I now hold.

Watch it:

(Holder Reminds Sessions: I Am The Attorney General Of The United States)

[Bolo Boffin]

1. "They call me Attorney General Holder."

Apologies to Mr. Tibbs.

[HopeOverFear]

2. HA! Get down with your bad self, Holder

[Hepburn]

3. Fucking priceless ~~ K&R...n/t

[lamp_shade]

4. I watched it and jumped right up out of my chair to applaud. He said it with such

confidence. Sessions didn't like it one bit. Loved it.

[alsame]

5. Ass kicking answer! nt

[Cha]

6. I bet he did..they still

don't know what hit them.

[uponit7771]

7. Nice

[mecherosegarden]

8. Good, very good! N/T

[EffieBlack]

9. I'm surprised Sessions didn't call him "boy."

He really seemed to be saying that Holder's opinion didn't count at all because "the Attorney General" disagreed with him. He just couldn't seem to wrap his mind around the fact that the black man sitting in front of him IS the Attorney General.

Can you imagine how galling it must have been to Sessions to have a black man look him in the face and tell him "I'M the Attorney General?" And to make it worse, he threw in the President of the United States, another black man, to trump Sessions' claim.

This must be enormously frustrating for Sessions and his ilk - they must think their entire worlds have spun upside down.

[vaberella]

11. +1. Ha! They struggle every day from falling to their baser instincts. n/t

[KingFlorez]

10. I bet he wanted to call him all kinds of nasty names

I almost wish that Sessions had let something bad come out of his mouth, the GOP could always use a little more damage.

[classysassy]

12. I'll bet my last peso

old Jeff,blew his top when he got home,I can hear it now,that damn darkie treated me like I am white trash.I'm gonna report this to the local klan chapter.

[depakid]

13. Yep- Holder's AG alright-

and presides over a continuing disgrace every single day.

Kinda tough to run a department and make it even worse than it was was under Bush I- but you have to hand it to the guy. He's thus far accomplished it.

[SKKY]

14. What Holder was really saying here was...

"Bitch pleazzz!"

[tblue37]

15. I am K&R-ing YOUR post on this subject over another poster's

thread because you provided a summary/partial transcript for us deafies and the other poster did not.

Thank you for being so considerate!