In 1999, then a deputy attorney general Eric Holder helped arrange Bill Clinton pardons for 16 unrepentant members of FALN
who had been convicted of “a variety of charges that included conspiracy, sedition, violation of the Hobbes Act
(extortion by force, violence or fear), armed robbery and illegal
possession of weapons and explosives — including large quantities of
C-4 plastic explosive, dynamite and huge caches of ammunition.”Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency January 09, 2009|
— Attorney general nominee Eric H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations, according to interviews and documents. Details of the role played by Holder, who was deputy attorney general at the time, had not been publicly known until now. The new details are of particular interest because Republican senators have vowed to revisit Holder’s role during his confirmation hearings next week.
More and more Americans are discovering that the Obama Administration’s definition of transparency is more Clintonian and semantic than it is honest and encouraging.
In addition, the Obama White House is successfully preventing — with the help of their minions populating the mainstream news media –the discovery that Attorney General Eric Holder has been less than forthcoming about his activities prior to being appointed U.S. Attorney General.
General Eric Holder’s 2009 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guidelines.
Holder’s guidelines were supposed to aid President Barack Obama’s “new era of open government” by establishing a “criteria governing the presumption of disclosure” and creating “effective systems for responding to requests.”
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