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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (390267)	7/12/2009 2:34:38 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Respond to of 436258

Yep. Quite a contrast with Potter. The whole show was a mixture of appalling and infuriating.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (390267)	7/12/2009 6:09:44 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Getting back to Holder, seems we'll find out what he's made of soon enough. Greenwald's generally skeptical, but see the first update ... salon.com Or better yet, read the whole piece by Harper's Scott Horton ... thedailybeast.com A couple of choice quotes: "As he read through the latter two documents, my sources said, Holder came to realize the focal and instrumental role that Department of Justice lawyers had played in constructing the torture regime and in pushing it through when career lawyers raised objection. He also took note of how the entire process was orchestrated from within the Bush White House ... " "In the days after Obama’s speech at the CIA, both Axelrod and Emanuel insisted that the White House had made the decision that there would be no prosecutions. According to reliable sources, that incensed Holder, who felt that the remarks had compromised the integrity both of the White House and Justice Department by suggesting that political advisers made the call on who would or would not be criminally investigated ..."