Via HotAir:
President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential transition.
Holder, who served as deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, still has to undergo a formal “vetting” review by the Obama transition team before the selection is final and is publicly announced, said one of the sources, who asked not to be identified talking about the transition process. But in the discussions over the past few days, Obama offered Holder the job and he accepted, the source said…
The only hesitancy about Holder’s selection was that he himself had reservations about going through a confirmation process that was likely to revive questions about his role in signing off on the controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.
Memories of the Marc Rich pardon:
Eric Holder does a tap dance on the subject of the seizure of Élian González.
Gibbs: Hey, no problem with Obama’s choice of campaign advisors. (…just wait until after the election…)
In a matter of two days, Obama has picked the Abbott and Costello of the Élian Gozález debacle for White House counsel and Attorney General. Didn’t we warn you that change isn’t always a good thing??
