i would like to hear more from both of you on this subject when the time comes.

David Iglesias
Patrick Fitzgerald
Francis Boyle

Especially when the department he will head is at absolute rock-bottom in its checkered history.

Pick someone else, please, President-Elect Obama.

I also think the Rich pardon is picayune, in light of his role. I confess that years ago I found myself in a somewhat comparable role, and while that certainly hasn’t worked out with anything like the same level of notoriety, I still take heat for doing what I honestly thought at the time was the right thing, albeit I readily admit to wishing I’d had more time and a bit more prescience as to how history might judge it [I have come to realize there was very likely a connection between those two which some hoped I was just naive enough to miss acting on.]

My biggest concerns with Holder remain the faulty [I hope simply then naive] thinking behind his illegal drugs initiative [among other things, how that shows up in our over-filled prisons], and his series of brain squeezes from 9/11 on with prisoners [which I would expect has been the subject of discussion with Obama]. I state these two notwithstanding it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if absolutely no one raises them there – maybe Whitehouse.