Democracy Now!
| May 23, 2013
The Obama administration has admitted for the first time to killing four US citizens in drone strikes overseas. Three died in Yemen: the Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. A fourth, Jude Kenan ...
Associated Press
| May 14, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder defended the Justice Department's decision to seize two months of Associated Press phone records (including for the AP phone in the House of Representatives press gallery) because of one of the "most serious leaks" he ...
Russia Today
| May 13, 2013
The president of the Associated Press has sent a strongly worded letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder after the Department of Justice acknowledged seizing two months of phone records of reporters and editors. The department offere...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 16, 2012
It has been two-and-a-half years since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and spilling nearly 5 billion barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Now, oil giant BP has reached a settlement with the US government. The com...
Channel 4 News
| Nov 15, 2012
BP will pay the biggest ever criminal fine in US history as part of a $4.5bn settlement. The oil giant has pleaded guilty to 14 criminal charges relating to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 workers.
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 5, 2012
As the Obama administration drops any attempts to prosecute those responsible for the torture of prisoners during the Bush administration, Inside Story Americas asks if this will affect the US's standing in the world, and if we can be sure such ab...
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...JusticeU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder still reviewing legal pot At a meeting of state attorneys general on Tuesday, US Attorney General Eric ...
— Feb 27 at 08:11 pm
...to lose nine percent of its budget between now and September 30th. We're going to lose $1.6 billion. There are not going to be as many FBI agent...
— Apr 5 at 04:12 am
...the court to strike down the portion of the Voting Rights Act that requires "pre-clearance" of changes to voting procedures in parts or all of 1...
Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. is the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, in office since 2009. Holder, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, is the first African American to hold the position of U.S. Attorney General.
Holder previously served as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and a United States Attorney. In that office he prosecuted Congressman Dan Rostenkowski for corruption charges related to his role in the Congressional Post Office scandal. Later, he was Deputy Attorney General of the United States and worked at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He was senior legal advisor to Senator Barack Obama during Obama's presidential campaign and one of three members of Obama's vice-presidential selection committee.
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