Obama: ‘I Have Complete Confidence In Eric Holder’

[ProSense]

Obama: ‘I Have Complete Confidence In Eric Holder’

President Barack Obama on Thursday gave a firm vote of confidence to embattled Attorney General Eric Holder.

"I have complete confidence in Eric Holder as attorney general," Obama said at a joint afternoon press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "He does his job with integrity and I expect he will continue to do so."

Holder has come under fire for the Department of Justice's subpoena of Associated Press phone records, with even some on the left calling for his sacking.

But Obama defended the probe earlier in the press conference, emphasizing the need to get to the bottom of leaks. Earlier this week, Holder called the leak on a CIA operation in Yemen, the impetus for the seizure of the AP's phone records, one of the most serious in his career.

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-i-have-complete-confidence-in-eric-holder

Eric Holder's testimony was OUTSTANDING today! Kick if you're with me...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022850356

[SidDithers]

1. DU Rec...nt

Sid

[villager]

2. Which tells you, really, about many of the failings of this administration in a nutshell

n/t

[ProSense]

4. Or

"Which tells you, really, about many of the failings of this administration in a nutshell"

...the successes.

Holder announces 89 individuals charged with Medicare fraud
http://www.washingtonpost.com/holder-announces-89-individuals-charged-with-medicare-fraud/2013/05/14/ee06cb36-bccc-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_video.html

As part of a coordinated, nationwide takedown – the sixth that the Medicare Fraud Strike Force and its partners have conducted – this afternoon, we announce charges against 89 defendants in eight different cities for their alleged participation in fraud schemes to submit more than $220 million in false billings to Medicare. These defendants are accused of a variety of crimes involving the fraudulent use of Medicare information obtained illegally from elderly or low-income individuals; the submission of false billings for treatments that were never provided, or were performed by unlicensed individuals; and a range of other schemes that placed the safety of innocent people at risk in order to achieve illicit financial gain.

http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2013/ag-speech-1305141.html

[villager]

8. You forgot the successes in busting MMJ dispensaries, coddling war/wall street criminals, and

...the overweening success in expanding the surveillance state, too!

[ProSense]

11. I've been

"You forgot the successes in busting MMJ dispensaries, coddling war/wall street criminals, and ...the overweening success in expanding the surveillance state, too! "

...through that yesterday with the Ashcroft fans.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2849205

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2850772

[villager]

18. It's not about being an Ashcroft fan; it's about being more of a diligent citizen, instead of ....

...a star-addled, wholly uncritical, fan of the current administration, and being willing to see, and call out, its faults.

Which is what participants in a democracy need to do. Or heck, even in the vestiges of a republic, like the one on life-support here.

[ProSense]

22. Democracy

"It's not about being an Ashcroft fan; it's about being more of a diligent citizen, instead of ....

...a star-addled, wholly uncritical, fan of the current administration, and being willing to see, and call out, its faults.

Which is what participants in a democracy need to do. Or heck, even in the vestiges of a republic, like the one on life-support here."

...isn't about being self-righteous jerks who resort to name calling.

I mean, some people spent the first four years of the Obama Presidency lambasting the health care law (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022846359) and Dodd-Frank as useless, and labeling people who didn't agree with their opinions of legislation as "Third Wayers."

Well, you know what: Fuck that noise.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022854370

[villager]

23. Well, "self-righteous jerk" isn't exactly *not* "name calling." But you'd *already* used

...the inaccurate "Ashcroft Fan," to describe those who disagree with Holder's right-leaning policies.

Physician/healing/thyself, etc.

[ProSense]

24. Please,

Well, "self-righteous jerk" isn't exactly *not* "name calling." But you'd *already* used

...the inaccurate "Ashcroft Fan," to describe those who disagree with Holder's right-leaning policies.

Physician/healing/thyself, etc.

...own up to the name calling (I was returning the fire) and the accuracy of "Ashcroft Fan," albeit hyperbolic.

[villager]

25. Oh -- so your names are "accurate," and all others are "hyperbolic?" "Please."

n/t

[ProSense]

26. Hey,

Oh -- so your names are "accurate," and all others are "hyperbolic?" "Please."

..."Ashcroft Fan" is based on a declaration that he is preferable in some way to Holder. Your name calling is based on people disagreeing with you.

See the difference?

[villager]

27. "Ashcroft Fan" insinuates an agreement with Republican values, as you disingenuously know.

The point of those posts was to show how Holder is often to the right of Ashcroft on different positions, which a wholly uncritical view of this administration cannot brook.

[ProSense]

28. That's

"Ashcroft Fan" insinuates an agreement with Republican values, as you disingenuously know.

...nonsense. It simply means being a fan on some level, which is defined here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2849205

[villager]

29. ...true, actually. Your complete inability to own any of your deployed rhetoric

...runs parallel, sadly, to your inability to criticize this administration on the fronts where such criticism is entirely warranted.

Which was the point of my post -- while picking up on your use of "fan" -- in the first place.

[ProSense]

32. Wow,

"Your complete inability to own any of your deployed rhetoric...runs parallel, sadly, to your inability to criticize this administration on the fronts where such criticism is entirely warranted."

...you get to decide whether or not other people should be critical?

See my point here about legislation: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2854649

[villager]

35. Wow, indeed. You get decide when it's name-calling, and when it's not?

Your own name calling always conveniently exempted?

[ProSense]

36. Couldn't address the point in the comment, huh?

You get to decide whether or not other people should be critical?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2854831

Address that. It appears to be your issue. No one forced anyone to post a thread comparing Holder to Ashcroft and hyping that RW asshole.

You, on the other hand, believe you should determine when others should be critical.

[villager]

37. No, evidently you can't You keep dodging it. No one "forces" any post, ProSense. Not even yours.

People get to be critical of this administration.

People like you get to be critical of any and all critics of this administration, etc.

No one "forces" a post.

No one "forces" anyone to call anyone an "Ashcroft fan," when the point -- which you never addressed -- is why Obama's AG too often tacks to Ashcroft's right?

Perhaps, then, don't be so free with the insinuations and name-calling yourself, if the use of the exact same name -- in this case "fan" -- undoes you so much, in one of these many unforced DU threads.

[ProSense]

38. See

"People like you get to be critical of any and all critics of this administration, etc."

"It's not about being an Ashcroft fan; it's about being more of a diligent citizen, instead of .......a star-addled, wholly uncritical, fan of the current administration, and being willing to see, and call out, its faults."

"Your complete inability to own any of your deployed rhetoric...runs parallel, sadly, to your inability to criticize this administration on the fronts where such criticism is entirely warranted."

...those? They're your comments, and they all have something in common.

[villager]

39. You're getting more desperate, ProSense, Cutting and pasting from entirely different replies

...leaving no context, and of course omitting your comments and name-calls, which I was responding to!

Very GOP of you!

[ProSense]

40. LOL! What

You're getting more desperate, ProSense, Cutting and pasting from entirely different replies

...leaving no context, and of course omitting your comments and name-calls, which I was responding to!

Very GOP of you!

...can't stand to see your own comments together?

[villager]

41. shorn of context, of course. And of your own comments and replies. Disingenuous throughout.

Which has been sadly typical of you in this subthread, alas.

[radiclib]

42. This little intramural back-and-forth is a perfect example

of why we are completely fucked as a nation.
My Republican sister and brother-in-law are coming this weekend, the globe is melting, democracy is out the window, the banks own everything, the government is in a dysfunctional shambles, and not a word will be uttered about any of it, because what's the point?
How can human beings figure out how to preserve themselves and continue to evolve when, even in our little DU corner of the universe we can't even agree on the shape of the table?

[villager]

43. I don't disagree, actually.

We piss on each over breadcrumbs here, while the world burns.

I expect I've mixed/garbled several metaphors there.

[tridim]

5. Yes, a nutshell is an appropriately sized container for this administration's "failings".

[Scootaloo]

6. I'm thinking pistachio n/t

[Cha]

14. No, it tells you that. Many of us are quite capable

of appreciating the successes of the Obama Administration.

[villager]

19. And with "successes" like that, who needs failings on the civil liberties, environmental, and Wall

Street reform front!?

[patrice]

3. Are we supposed to wait for more dead State Dept personnel, before we try to find out who

might know what about CIA ops such as the location of things like a "safe house" in places like Benghazi, Libya?

[patrice]

7. Why isit necessary for ordinary citizens to ASK THE QUESTIONS that corporate media SHOULD be asking?

[gateley]

9. I'm not a Holder fan, but I'm with you on this --outstanding testimony!!

[The Magistrate]

10. At This Point, Ma'am, There Is No Real Choice

Personally, I would like to have seen Mr. Holder gone long ago, but he cannot be fired or resign now: anything that smacks of appeasement or capitulation will be a political disaster.

[msongs]

12. we've had 4 years of appeasement. no biggee about this issue nt

[The Magistrate]

13. It Is Always Possible To Do It Once Too Often, Ma'am

Putting this man out of office at present would be that once too often, in my view.

[Skittles]

15. be careful you two

you'll send Prosense into overdrive

[Demeter]

16. Not if Holder were put in Jail

I'd like that possibility explored, myself.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. It wouldn't be appeasement if we put in someone more liberal, more focused on corporate crime

and less focused on busting pot smoking cancer patients.

[The Magistrate]

33. The Post Would Remain Vacant, Sir

Until there were sixty-five Democrats in the Senate....

I doubt you like the man any more than I do, but the situation at present is what it is.

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Your point is well taken.

It's too bad the guy did such a bang up-job of alienating voters like myself. I had hoped he would be swapped out for the 2nd term. To quote Yoda, now, matters are worse.

[Cha]

17. The following is Research on AG Holder from

Tx4obama, although I can't find the link now.. and, your link from last night, ProSense, on Voting Rights.

The section here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder#Attorney_General_of_the_United_States

Also...

U.S. Arrests 91 In Massive $430 Million Medicare Fraud Bust
October 2012
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10021487883

The SCOOTER Store power wheelchair company raided in federal probe
February 2013
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505266_162-57570450/the-scooter-store-power-wheelchair-company-raided-in-federal-probe/

U.S. charges 89 people in $223 million Medicare fraud schemes
May 14, 2013
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014483461

AG Holder on Voting Rights..

With the Supreme Court having heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act last week, the Obama administration weighed in again Sunday with another impassioned defense of the 1965 law.

"For our nation's Department of Justice, the fair and vigorous enforcement of this and other vital protections -- and their defense against all Constitutional challenges -- constitutes a top priority," read Attorney General Eric Holder's prepared remarks for a speech he was set to give at the Edmund Pettus Bridge Crossing Jubilee. "Let me be clear: although our nation has indeed changed, although the South is far different now, and although progress has indeed been made, we are not yet at the point where the most vital part of the Voting Rights Act can be deemed unnecessary. The struggle for voting rights for all Americans must continue -- and it will

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/03/holder-voting-rights-act_n_2802793.html

Holder Stands Up for the Right to Vote

Today’s excellent New York Times editorial rightfully praises Attorney General Eric Holder’s efforts this week to highlight the sanctity of the right to vote in America. In his speech from the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas, the attorney general said, “The right to vote is not only the cornerstone of our system of government — it is the lifeblood of our democracy. And no force has proved more powerful — or more integral to the success of the great American experiment — than efforts to expand the franchise.”

But this year, we’ve seen a coordinated effort to shrink our democracy and push voters out of the electorate as legislatures across the country have passed laws that will make it harder for Americans – particularly African-Americans, the elderly, students and people with disabilities – to exercise their fundamental right to cast a ballot. The Department of Justice plays a critical role in fighting back against these voter suppression laws. The agency can challenge discriminatory voting laws and stop them from going into effect.

Take action and tell Attorney General Holder you agree with his efforts to protect the right to vote.

http://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/holder-stands-right-vote

You.. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022850445

Love this comment below the TPM article.. thanks ProSense

PluckyInKY

That's right, Mr. President, stand by your AG. When someone is trying to bring you down you don't help them by giving them what they want which is exactly what Bill Press and other idiots think the president should do.

[flamingdem]

21. Thanks for the informing

information Cha! (+tx)

[quinnox]

20. Ugh

[warrprayer]

31. ... don't rock the boat baby!