{"id":596,"date":"2014-09-26T10:23:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2014-09-26T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:23:31","slug":"eric-holder-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder Stepping Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General of the United States has stated that he is going to retire.\u00a0 To many, all they can say, it&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n<p>Holder has had a rocky time as Attorney General, starting early on in Obama&#8217;s first year as President.\u00a0 The dropping of charges against a Black Panthers&#8217; group was viewed as reverse racism by many.\u00a0 Holder&#8217;s next couple of years did not improve.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His justice department is still fighting Fast &amp; Furious.\u00a0 This program gave guns to criminal elements\u00a0in what became a total fiasco.\u00a0 To make things worse, they have hidden documents, and failed to provide information to others.<\/p>\n<p>There are many examples of other areas where Holder has actually politicalized the office of Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best is the IRS scandal.\u00a0 The very scandal which the justice department has never investigated.\u00a0 When people ask why, the response ranges but nothing is done.<\/p>\n<p>Holder became a mere wall upon which criticism of the administration was deflected upon.\u00a0 Under Holder&#8217;s guiding hand the justice department never wished to go after anything which might harm how people perceive democrats.<\/p>\n<p>One of his legacy will be his stonewalling abilities.\u00a0 Here is hoping that the next Attorney General will not be political, but Constitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General of the United States has stated that he is going to retire.\u00a0 To many, all they can say, it&#8217;s about time. Holder has had a rocky time as Attorney General, starting early on in Obama&#8217;s first year as President.\u00a0 The dropping of charges against a Black Panthers&#8217; group was viewed as reverse [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=596\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}