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...having an event - it's the Inauguration. What Renuart means is that he's prepared should terrorists strike while perhaps 2 million Americans jam together on the National Mall next Tuesday. "We ought to be prepared to respond if something does happen that requires the Defense Department to provide support," he said, for "an event this visible and this important and this historic." (See TIME's Person of the Year, Barack Obama...
...come in handy if the White House has trouble lining up votes for various bills and proposals that reach Capitol Hill. Obama's army can make a lot of phone calls and send a lot of e-mails - and it has proved it knows how to act fast. Rallying support for legislation is one mission; so is making sure the army is intact - and still writing checks - in a few years, when Obama is likely to seek re-election...
...pardon of fugitive Marc Rich - which Holder facilitated - and the 1999 clemency Clinton granted to imprisoned members of FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group linked by the FBI to bombings, armed robberies and murders. Republicans accused the President at the time of using the commutations to draw Puerto Rican support in New York for the budding senatorial campaign of his wife. In the conservative National Review, Andrew C. McCarthy opines, "With the FALN pardons, [Holder] helped foster an atmosphere where terrorist clemency was not out of the question - even though the United States was then being targeted for terrorist attacks...
...Even in the Lewinsky case, Holder appeared to reverse course and seemed determined to blunt the investigation he had unleashed, lending DOJ's legal support to a dubious privilege claimed by the Secret Service to keep its agents from testifying...
...nominee's closest friends and defenders acknowledge that Holder made mistakes in the Rich case. But they explain his support for the FALN clemency as simply executing the President's constitutional right to commute prison sentences. And they say his views of the Starr investigation evolved because of questionable actions by Starr, not White House pressure. Holder will have a chance to answer every challenge to his integrity. The Judiciary Committee will test how well those explanations hold...