Oct. 2, 2014 Eric Holder Could Have Brought the Country Together
Eric Holder and his boss, the president, have had a unique opportunity
to put much of "race" in our rearview mirror.
Wall Street Journal
Regarding your editorial "Eric Holder's Legacy of Politics" (Sept. 26): Eric Holder deserves credit for aggressively
pursuing civil-rights cases and using his high office in advancing race
relations. On the flip side his record on prosecuting financial fraud has been
an abysmal failure. None of the executives have been held accountable for the
Wall Street crash which led to the worst recession in 80 years. The Justice
Department decided to give a virtual free pass to most of these offenders,
though they whacked the companies' stockholders with unprecedented fines. A war
on journalists and whistleblowers has been pursued using the odious Espionage
Act of 1917 which was used to repress dissent during wartime. Finally, Mr.
Holder's DOJ-sanctioned drone attacks have resulted in the death of scores of
innocent civilians and provided the legal cover for raw executive power. The
New York Times's James Risen, whom the Obama administration wants to prosecute,
told a New York Times columnist that President Obama is "the greatest
enemy to press freedom in a generation."
Tejinder Uberoi
Los Altos, Calif.
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