Eric Holder Is Just The Sort Of Two-Faced Liar A President Like Obama Needs
Byron York relates a story about Obama’s pick for Attorney General that pretty much sums up who the guy is in a nutshell. It has to do with a bit of duplicity Holder engaged in with regard to the Elian Gonzalez scandal.
In the period before armed agents seized the child, the Justice Department had been leaking its intention to avoid any sort of armed intervention. It would all be done quietly, they suggested. When top Department officials were asked about it, they said nothing to change that impression. About two weeks before the raid, Tim Russert asked Holder, “You wouldn’t send a SWAT team in the dark of night to kidnap the child, in effect?” Holder answered, “No, we don’t expect anything like that to happen.” Then the Department did precisely that. The day after the seizure, Holder appeared again with Russert, who asked, “Why such a dramatic change in position?” “I’m not sure I’d call it a dramatic change,” Holder answered. “We waited ‘til five in the morning, just before dawn.”
Now that’s some hope ‘n change we can’ believe in.
