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In reply to the discussion: That hopey changey thing at the Department of Justice [View all]dsc
(52,488 posts)5. I don't think anyone disputes Holder's record on voting or civil rights
after his rocky start on DOMA briefs. That doesn't negate his record on prosecuting banks (abysmal), going after pot smokers (abysmal), and his targeting of whistle blowers. But in the final analysis, despite some amount of independence, the major themes are Obama's and if Obama wanted more banks prosecuted it would have happened or Holder would be gone.
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It figures you'd dig up a ridiculously hyperbolic and debunked five-year-old opinion to post. n/t
ProSense
Jun 2013
#29
Hyperbolic headings in the piece are disproved immediately by quoted passages.
DevonRex
Jun 2013
#31