Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 0062320920
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Under Attorney General Eric Holder, the Department of Justice has become a politicized hotbed of left-wing legal activism.
What is Eric Holder up to? When questioned by congressional committees on sensitive issues like the ATF "gunwalking" scandal or the surveillance of Fox News' reporter James Rosen, the attorney general either claimed ignorance or denied specific knowledge. When it was later revealed that Holder had personally signed off on the Rosen investigation, despite his explicit denials, indignant calls were heard across the political spectrum for his resignation. He became the first attorney general in history to be held in contempt by the House of Representatives over a reckless operation that killed a border patrol agent and numerous Mexican citizens. Yet Holder remained in his job, and it is clear that he has President Obama's full support.
In Obama's Enforcer, authors John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky provide the first explosive look inside this feared and powerful agency. They describe the transformation of the DOJ into a stronghold of progressive legal activism and provide in-depth portraits of the radical lawyers in Holder's inner circle.
Holder survives because his agency acts as a heat shield for the Obama administration, protecting the president's flank on numerous fronts. He also survives because his department is actively advancing Obama's hidden political agenda, from the administration's war on Fox News to its harassment of Tea Party activists. He has injected a new politically correct laxity into domestic security issues, eliminating the use of the words "radical Islam" and pushing for civilian trials for terrorists. He has also presided over an unprecedented expansion of politically correct actions at the DOJ's Civil Rights Division and launched a widespread attack on election integrity efforts.
In addition to monitoring reporters' phone records, DOJ lawyers were involved in instigating Operation Fast and Furious, ignoring the deliberate leaking of classified documents by the White House to favored reporters, the funneling of taxpayer funds to political allies through collusive settlements, and much more. Obama's Enforcer provides the first investigative look inside the country's largest law enforcement agency and reveals its true and dangerous role in advancing Obama's agenda.
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Church of control over the selection of those who will personify its beliefs.” But the radical position the government took in the case should come as no surprise since one of the principal authors of the brief filed with the Supreme Court was a relatively recent Justice hire: Aaron D. Schuham, formerly of Barry Lynn’s Americans United for Separation of Church and State. In another case it lost nine to nothing, Sackett v. EPA, the Justice Department tried to prevent a family from defending.
Like in most government agencies, provides substantive expertise and continuity from one administration to the next. However, the career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division are overwhelmingly liberal and have always manipulated the hiring process to ensure that the staff remains that way. In December 2000, when it became clear that a Republican would be in the White House, the division underwent an unprecedented hiring binge to fill ninety civil service vacancies before the new administration.
Do catch-up pandering to Hispanics.”39 And he and Eric Holder then added women and American Indians for good measure. CHAPTER 6 The Holder Rule of Ignorance and Deceit In his congressional testimony, Eric Holder has all too often displayed seeming incompetence, a lack of professionalism, a contempt for those questioning him, and a willingness to mislead if not outright lie to Congress. California representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) told one of the authors that for someone to be so.
Attorney general to be held in contempt by the House of Representatives. Meese said that his experience at the Justice Department showed him that bad behavior within the department is an “aberration and exception to the general rule.” The Justice Department is “by and large a well-run operation and most of the divisions are not ideological in their law enforcement.”27 The real checks on the behavior of the department, according to Meese, are “Congress, through both appropriations and.
Despite his radical record. 4. Byron York, “Obama’s Zealous Civil Rights Enforcer Gets Busy,” Washington Examiner, Aug. 6, 2010. 5. Wil S. Hylton, “Hope, Change, Reality.,” GQ, Dec. 2010. 6. “A Review of the Operations of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division,” Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Justice, March 2013. 7. Chuck Neubauer, “Taxpayers Financed Justice Official’s Romantic Travel,” Washington Times, Oct. 5, 2011. This employee was not asked to pay back the.