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To: combjelly who wrote (389974)	6/9/2008 5:06:59 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575625

>> This other guy was just the last one in the sequence. Don't try to marginalize Holder's role. Libbey was a "hired gun" -- it was TOTALLY APPROPRIATE for him to represent Marc Rich in the matter. This is what lawyers do. (Jack Quinn was actually the lawyer who handled the work; Libbey just briefed Quinn on the case). At any rate, neither Libbey nor Quinn did anything wrong in connection with the pardon. They simply represented their client. Holder, Obama's "search team member", was a Deputy AG whose responsibility it was to see that the request was handled properly internally. "... In the end, Holder told Congress he would have tried to stop the Rich pardon if he had known the full details of the fugitive financier's case. Holder said he did not pay much attention to Rich's case amid a flood of pardon requests that came to the Justice Department in Clinton's last days in office." This, by any measure, is incompetent. It was HIS JOB to "know the full details". Yet, he admits he didn't. This is the kind of slop Obama is appointing already. I can't wait to see his choices for major appointees.