Before being elevated to Janet Reno's right hand [in BiIsIs al-Qlinton's "justice" department], he ran the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.... But in all the years that he ran the D.C. office, that office never initiated a single public corruption case against a D.C. official. Sworn to enforce federal anti-corruption laws in a city with one of the most notoriously corrupt governments in the county, Holder displayed his political acumen by letting D.C. corruption run rampant.

As deputy attorney general, Holder played a key role in President Clinton's pardon of the fugitive terrorist financier Marc Rich. Rich fled to Switzerland in 1983 to avoid prosecution for tax evasion and for arranging oil deals for the terrorist dictatorship in Iran while it was holding Americans hostage. According to the book Metal Men by Craig Copetas, Rich gave the Iranian terrorists small arms, automatic rifles and hand-held rockets in exchange for the oil....

[A U.S. House oversight] committee observed, "Holder has failed to offer any credible justification for his support of the Rich pardon." Accordingly, "his desire to be appointed [al-Gore's] attorney general provides a much clearer and more believable motivation than any offered by Holder to date." (The report is available [here])....

Liberal (and very anti-gun) Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen called Holder's story about the pardon "disingenuous" and wrote that the Rich pardon alone shows that Holder is unfit for "a post that ought to be reserved for a lawyer who appreciated that while he reports to the president, he serves the people." (Dec. 2, 2008)....

[He also lied to the American people in] one notorious case in which his purported concern "for the children" led to some very aggressive use of firearms. Holder was deeply involved in the gunpoint, nighttime kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez in 2000. Elian and his mother fled Fidel Castro's tyranny in Cuba and the mother died at sea during the escape. Elian was welcomed and sheltered by his relatives in Florida, but Castro wanted him back; Reno and Holder were happy to oblige.

Holder had publicly promised that there would be no nighttime home invasion. After the nighttime home invasion occurred, he claimed that he had kept his promise because the attack had actually taken place an hour before dawn....

Although a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showed a federal agent dressed like a soldier pointing a machine gun at the man who was holding the terrified child, Holder actually claimed that Gonzalez "was not taken at the point of a gun" and that the federal agents whom Holder had sent to capture Gonzalez had acted "very sensitively."

If Holder believes that breaking down a door with a battering ram, pointing submachine guns at children (not just Elian), and yelling, "Get down, get down, we'll shoot!" is an example of acting "very sensitively," his judgment about the responsible use of firearms is grossly insufficient for a cabinet officer who would be in charge of thousands and thousands of armed federal [BATFE] agents, many of them paramilitary agents with machine guns.

Holder's lack of integrity about the Rich pardon and the Gonzalez abduction would make him a poor choice for any law enforcement position. He is especially unsuited for attorney general — a position that, more than any other in the Cabinet, requires the rectitude to stand up to political pressure from the White House to bend the rule of law.

Dave Kopel, "The Holder Distortion," America's 1st Freedom, February 2008, pp. 35-36.

The man Barack Obama selected to head Treasury failed to pay about $34,000 in taxes. Timothy Geithner was selected to run the Treasury and he is unable to do what he will expect the rest of us to do. I guess he got his training from Charlie Rangel....

Geithner was informed by the IRS that he owed money in 2006 which was two years ago. Additionally, he failed to pay his taxes on more than one occasion. The truth is that he went for years owing taxes to the government....

Geithner also employed an illegal, or as the spokesman calls her, a person without documents.

Geithner also didn't realize a housekeeper he paid in 2004 and 2005 did not have current employment documentation as an immigrant for the final three months she worked for him, the transition official said.

Big Dog, "Treasury Selection Fails To Pay Taxes," Big Dog's Weblog, January 14, 2009.

[Hildabeast's husband and criminal partner] Bill Clinton has recently and rather disingenuously offered to submit his own foundation to scrutiny (see the work of my Vanity Fair colleague Todd Purdum on the delightful friends and associates that Clinton has acquired since he left office), but the real problem is otherwise. Both President and Sen. Clinton, while in office, made it obvious to foreign powers that they and their relatives were wide open to suggestions from lobbyists and middlemen....

[Terrorist financier Marc] Rich's ex-wife, Denise Rich, gave large sums to Hillary Clinton's re-election campaign and to Bill Clinton's library, and Marc Rich got a pardon. Edgar and Vonna Jo Gregory, convicted of bank fraud, hired Hillary Clinton's brother Tony and paid him $250,000, and they got a pardon. Carlos Vignali Jr. and Almon Glenn Braswell paid $400,000 to Hillary Clinton's other brother, Hugh, and, hey, they, respectively, got a presidential commutation and a presidential pardon, too....

In matters of foreign policy, it has been proved time and again, the Clintons are devoted to no interest other than their own. A president absolutely has to know of his chief foreign-policy executive that he or she has no other agenda than the one he has set.

Christopher Hitchens, "Serving the Clintonian Interest: The last thing we need is a Clinton in charge of foreign policy," Slate, November 24, 2008.