Holder says he has no intention of stepping down

[IDemo]

Source: NBC News

Amid calls by some congressional Republicans for his resignation, Attorney General Eric Holder told NBC News Wednesday that he has no intentions of stepping down.

Holder has been embroiled in a furor over a Justice Department subpoena of Associated Press phone records and an investigation of leaks to Fox News correspondent James Rosen.

Holder told NBC he is uncomfortable with how some of the leak investigations have progressed. Although he approved some of the steps in the investigation, he said laws and regulations forced his hand and should be changed.

"I'm a little concerned that things have gotten a little out of whack ... I think we can do a better job than we have. We can reform those regulations, reform those guidelines to better reflect that balance,” he said.

Read more: http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/05/18781813-holder-says-he-has-no-intention-of-stepping-down?lite

[ellie]

1. Good. I hope he doesn't.

[rhett o rick]

19. Me too. Pres Obama would most likely replace him with another Bush-guy, maybe Alberto Gonzales. nm

[dlwickham]

2. what a shame

he should have been the first cabinet official to go in Obama's 2nd term

[Tx4obama]

3. Good. He should stay. If he were to leave then the Republicans would think it was a win for them.

[frylock]

24. and that's what really matters..

amiright?

[graham4anything]

4. Why should the #1 greatest AG of all time do that? He should be on SCOTUS

[Mr. David]

6. Uh. Greatest?

I sure hope that was sarcasm. Big time.

[graham4anything]

8. I was 1000000% serious. He should be fasttracked to SCOTUS

[rhett o rick]

22. Yes I can see how the conservatives would love him. He is a Wall Street guy

that thinks medical marijuana users should go to prison for life. That's a conservative for you.

I wish for the days when conservatives where Republicans.

Our party has been contaminated.

[GoneFishin]

25. We don't need no stinkin' bill of rights.

It just slows down the corporatists' pillaging and hoarding.

[rhett o rick]

28. I'll drink some cool-aide to that. nm

[ucrdem]

17. Especially compared to the last two.

Reno, I'm a little ambivalent about, but at least she wasn't corrupt or brain dead or both like most GOP AGs.

[tularetom]

5. He's an incompetent jackass and he doesn't belong in that job

But if the republicans want him out, he should stay.

Besides he'd probably just be replaced with somebody even worse.

[John2]

14. What did you think

of the last two Attorney Generals and just who do you think would be better? As far as I'm concerned, he can stay where he is, and proceed to investigate more. He just need more encouragement to face up to these Bullies. I'm waiting for the Day when he turns the table on Issa. I'm very interested to see what comes out of this DOJ investigation of the IRS. The Republicans might have broke some laws. Lerner claims she broke no Laws. I'm just wondering who put her up to that apology? All, we know, the Republicans could have put her up to it. Issa's involvement smells.

[geek tragedy]

7. Issa wants his scalp, which means he has to stay. nt

[Denise21]

9. Holder says he has no intention of stepping down

I am so sick of people bullying Holder and Obama it gets me sick!!!! I love that Holder and Obama are telling these MTFrrrrrrrrrrrrrs to go f---k yourselves! You go Rice You go Eric Holder You go Obama Tell these MTFrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs to go suck it!

[DeSwiss]

16. You missed your calling. Sounds like a great campaign poster. :-| n/t

[GoneFishin]

27. I assume the MTFrrrrrrrrrrrrrs you are referring to are his own base,

because he never tells the Republicans to "go f---k yourselves". He starts every negotiation by handing them half of whatever they want, then negotiating away half of whatever is left.

[Doctor_J]

10. A shame the president doesn't treat him like Van Jones

talk about being out of whack.

[Major Hogwash]

11. Does somebody want him to step down?

The only people that I have heard clamoring for Holder to step down are Republicans like Issa.

[AllyCat]

12. You'd think they would like him. He's not much different from Gonzalez

[theaocp]

13. Why would he go?

There're MMJ dispensaries that need closin'.

[John2]

18. He is going in the

right direction with the investigation of the fake corporate media. Somebody needs to investigate the fake media. When they all circle the wagons, they must have did something.

[ucrdem]

15. somebody's gotta say it

[DeSwiss]

20. And a sigh of relief could be heard.....

...all up and down Wall Street. The Fatcats are safe until 2016 with their fox guarding the hen house.

- But grannies with cancer had better lookout.....

[Purveyor]

26. +1 EOM

[MotherPetrie]

21. Too bad. But I would expect no less from this Republican enabling asshole.

[Cha]

23. Yeah, I know AG Eric Holder is a hot button

issue around here.

But, I'm glad he's letting the corp media and gopricks know.. he's not leaving.

Not everyone hates Holder..

In Meridian Mississippi, where 4 of every 10 kids lives below the poverty line the public schools have been routinely jailing black children for offenses like: wrong color socks.

In Meridian, when schools want to discipline children, they do much more than just send them to the principal’s office. They call the police, who show up to arrest children who are as young as 10 years old. Arrests, the Department of Justice says, happen automatically, regardless of whether the police officer knows exactly what kind of offense the child has committed or whether that offense is even worthy of an arrest. The police department’s policy is to arrest all children referred to the agency.

http://krebscycle.tumblr.com/post/51912884114/that-hopey-changey-thing-at-the-department-of-justice

h/t http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/03/attorney-general-eric-holder-champion-of-the-people/

[OnyxCollie]

29. Heckuva job there, Sleepy.

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. Good! Stick a thumb in their fucking eyes, Holder...both sides

Fuck 'em sideways.