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• Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:02 AM

  Ah, but there is a Waco connection

  From the Associated Press, September 14, 1999:

  "The federal prosecutor who raised questions about a possible Justice Department cover-up in the Waco standoff was abruptly removed from the case along with his boss, according to a court filing made public today. Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder recused U.S. Attorney James W. Blagg in San Antonio and assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Johnston in Waco from any further dealings in criminal or civil proceedings related to the siege. Holder appointed the U.S. attorney in a neighboring district as a 'special attorney to the U.S. attorney general.' . . . Johnston wrote Reno warning that aides within her own department were misleading her about federal agents' roles. The recusal notice provides no explanation for Holder's action."

  The link is here: http://www.mcsm.org/waco18.html

  No it's not an authoritative news site, but I assume it didn't make up an AP story out of whole cloth.

  And much as folks might like to make excuses for what Holder said after 9/11, there's no excuse for what he said after Columbine about limiting speech on the Internet:

  "The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is gonna be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, reasonable regulations in how people interact on the Internet, that is something that the Supreme Court and the courts ought to favorably look at."

  Link here from Declan McCullagh's Politchbot site: http://www.politechbot.com/p-00374.html

  Still feeling good about this guy?

  —Curious observer Read Curious observer's other letters
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