Memories from the Attic

Toys in the attic Eric Holder's Pedigree

Saturday is when I do picture files house cleaning.   Usually I get waylaid, like with this Clinton era picture of Eric Holder that has new relevance. You may remember, going back to the Clinton terror, that Hillary Clinton was furious with Janet Reno for opening the door to a Whitewater special prosecutor, and wanted her out.  Post 1996 reelection buzz, however,  had Reno coming to an agreement with Hillary, and was allowed to stay on as AG -- under  guidance from  Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, and later her successor Eric Holder.  It was Holder who engineered the Easter Sunday Elain Gonzalez kidnapping in 2000.  Despite pictures to the contrary, Holder maintained, and I quote, that Gonzalez "was not taken at the point of a gun."  He also  claimed  that the federal agents whom he had sent to liberate Gonzalez had acted "very sensitively."  All this evidently recommended him in Obama when it came time to select his own AG.  So far he hasn't disappointed.  Obama. Here's another one I found; a Chuckles Schumer rollover. Chuckles will never go out of style as an object of ridicule. Chuckles