Word: doj
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...with tradition and stayed mum in advance of the hearing. But an Obama transition official says that Holder believes the Attorney General should "serve the American people, not the President, not any one political party," and base decisions solely on law and fact. He added that apart from strengthening DOJ's role in counterterrorism, Holder's principle objective would be to "restore credibility" to the department...
...Holder sticks to those lines, he should be able to walk nimbly between his inquisitors when it comes to the handling of DOJ's recent past and immediate future. But inevitably, once politics are out of the way, the Senate will turn to Holder's record, which is a good deal more complicated than his rhetoric...
...office had leaked grand-jury information. When Starr announced plans for an internal investigation of the leaks, Holder advised him to stand down until the federal judge overseeing the case found merit in the complaint. But at the same time, Holder quietly called the judge and offered the DOJ's help in pending issues raised by the President's lawyers, which included the leaks question. When Starr learned about the unusual intervention, he saw it as a betrayal. (Holder has denied that he "ever encouraged the judge to move forward the matter involving alleged leaks to the Justice Department...
...prosecution witness had supposedly received payments by anti-Clinton philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife to discredit the President. In April, Holder wrote to Starr, urging him to look into the matter, and then released the letter to the press. The accusation rested on shaky stories by questionable sources, but the DOJ's public spotlighting of it undercut Starr's credibility as he was trying to get to the bottom of the Lewinsky matter. With Reno's approval, Starr asked a seasoned ethics lawyer to look into the charges, which he ultimately dismissed as false...
...subscribe to the devil theories of Clinton's lawyers, he questioned whether Starr's deputies had manipulated him into approving the Lewinsky probe. As his view of the case darkened, so did his relationship with Bennett, a decorated career prosecutor who had worked with Holder at the DOJ when they were young lawyers and played pickup basketball together. Bennett had come to believe his old friend was undermining the investigation. The mutual bitterness came to a head at a March 20 meeting in Holder's office...