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Eric Holder, Deputy Attorney General Who Obstructed Chinagate Investigation and Planned Elian Raid, Allowed to Become Privy to Internal Deliberations (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, Inc., the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, and which has brought lawsuits against Reno Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder for his obstruction and abuse of constitutional and rights of American citizens, is incredulous that the Bush-Cheney Administration would allow Mr. Holder to participate in its first cabinet meeting. “Deputy Attorney General Holder, who was the right-hand man of corrupt Clinton-Gore Attorney General Janet Reno, should not be made privy to the internal workings of the Bush-Cheney cabinet, but rather should be a target of prosecution for incoming Attorney General John Ashcroft,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “During the first cabinet meeting, President George W. Bush urged his cabinet secretaries to be ethical. Obviously, the attendance of Mr. Holder undercuts and contradicts any claim that ethics will be a centerpiece of this administration,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. Also sitting in on the cabinet meeting today was Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, who, as Judicial Watch uncovered, had arranged for illegal campaign contributions from John Huang to former Senator Alphonse D’Amato (R-NY). Also in attendance was Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, former Clinton-Gore Commerce Department Secretary, who was in contact with accused spy Wen Ho Lee’s family while Lee was under investigation for espionage. Mr. Lee was convicted of a felony for violating U.S. national security law at the Los Alamos nuclear lab. “The first Bush-Cheney cabinet meeting (with Holder, Chao and Mineta in attendance) could have been scripted by a French existentialist; it was truly ‘theater of the absurd.’ Perhaps Bush’s next cabinet appointment will be John Paul Sartre,” commented Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. |
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