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That rule guided Holder after he left Queens to become a corruption prosecutor, municipal judge and U.S. Attorney. And it will probably guide him as the nation's 82nd Attorney General. Holder takes over a sprawling, 110,000-person Justice Department that was treated at times like a private law firm by the Bush Administration, both in its novel interpretation of the law and in the way it purged employees who did not share its political views. Returning to the department he helped run in the late 1990s, Holder invited all employees to his grand fifth-floor office to introduce...
...nation's first African-American Attorney General, Holder, 58, brings a unique perspective to the job. In the 1970s, New Jersey police pulled over his Plymouth Duster to search for weapons. The car contained nothing more than Holder, then a dean's-list undergraduate at Columbia University, and a group of black friends. It impressed on Holder the dangers of using the law as a blunt instrument, a lesson he applied years later in overseeing a racial-profiling settlement with the New Jersey state police. After Columbia Law School, he passed up high-paying jobs for a chance to prosecute...
...Bill Clinton named him Deputy Attorney General. Holder's decision four years later to facilitate a presidential pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich was a blunder, he later admitted. It revealed the danger that occurs when top officials forget that their job is not to accommodate political masters in the White House--an issue that dominated Holder's confirmation hearing...
...Washington dinner party and later advised the then Illinois Senator's office. Obama tapped him, along with Caroline Kennedy, to head his vice-presidential search committee last summer, a process that apparently deepened the candidate's trust in Holder. When Obama called to offer the Attorney General job in late November, the issue of independence arose immediately. Obama made clear he was looking for someone to represent the rule of law, not his political interests, a point Holder stressed at his Senate hearing...
...result of this cautiousness, Ekman often sounds vague, ambiguous, and worst of all, obvious. In distinguishing between “believing-a-lie mistake” and a “disbelieving-the-truth mistake,” he writes, “There is no general rule about which kind of mistake can be most easily avoided. Sometimes the chances of each are about the same, and sometimes one type of mistake is more likely than the other. Again, it depends upon the lie, the liar, and the lie catcher.” For those who are inspired...