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...past year, Holder and Obama have been navigating one of the more difficult constitutional relationships in American government. On the one hand, the Attorney General is appointed by the President; on the other, he must remain politically independent of the White House. Holder, who as Deputy Attorney General a decade ago approved both the expansion of Ken Starr's investigation of Bill Clinton and Clinton's disastrous pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, needs no lesson on the pitfalls of his position. But Holder enjoys a personal relationship with Obama that he never had with Clinton - and that makes...
Calls for Holder to resign - coming now from Republicans like Lamar Alexander - aren't likely to move either the Attorney General or his boss. Holder says he won't budge, even if Obama eventually overrules his KSM decision. "I don't think it would have any impact on the relationship I have with him," Holder says. "I'm committed to making sure that he is as successful as he can be." For now, it seems Obama would say the same thing about Holder...
Every movement needs a creation myth, and the gourmet-food-truck movement has a really good one. In 1996, Roy Choi, a law-school dropout and a general disappointment to his Korean-immigrant parents, was watching the Food Network one afternoon, eating Cheetos while coming down from some serious drugs, when suddenly Emeril Lagasse started talking directly to him. "He came out of the TV," Choi recalls, "and said, 'Smell this. Touch this. Taste this. Do something...
...General in Military Court...
ERIC HOLDER, U.S. Attorney General, on the prospects of the al-Qaeda leader ever being put on trial, during questioning by members of Congress about trying terror suspects in federal civilian courts...