US Attorney General Eric Holder has an interesting standard for
clemency. Last week Holder said he was open to having a discussion on
giving the whistleblower Edward Snowden a reduced sentence but that full clemency was “going too far.”
And to some degree it would be inconsistent given the Obama
Administration’s wild and outrageous attack on whistleblowers and
journalists for Holder to say anything different.
But while Holder has become notorious for going soft on Wall Street
as Attorney General, as Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton
Administration he was part of one of the most controversial pardons in American history. A pardon so odious many thought it would disqualify Holder from becoming AG in the first place.
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