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Holder: No surrender on rule of law

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Holder: No surrender on rule of law

In a speech Wednesday extolling the rule of law, Attorney General Eric Holder rebuked members of the Bush administration for casually dispensing with longstanding American legal principles while pursuing the fight against terrorism.

Holder declared that officials prosecuting the war on terror, whom he did not name, “surrendered faithful obedience to the law to the circumstances of our time.”

“We will not sacrifice our values or trample on our Constitution under the false premise that it is the only way to protect our national security,” Holder said, speaking to a conference at West Point. “Discarding the very values that have made us the greatest nation on earth will not make us stronger—it will make us weaker and tear at the very fibers of who we are.”
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Holder: No surrender on rule of law - Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com

Finally, some sanity. Thank you Obama.
 
This from the Holder that told Clinton it was okay to sell presidential pardons.
 
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