Holder Aide: We Made No Special Promises to Bond

Holder Aide: We Made No Special Promises to Bond
By Elana Schor - January 28, 2009, 4:35PM

My colleague Zack at TPMmuck just heard from an aide to Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. The aide definitively denied Sen. Kit Bond's (R-MO) claim that Holder had given him "assurances" of avoiding future prosecutions of Bush intelligence officials who engaged in torturous interrogations.

"Eric Holder has not made any commitments about who would or would not be prosecuted," the aide said via e-mail. "He explained his position to Senator Bond as he did in the public hearing and in his responses to written questions."

The aide pointed to Holder's written response to a question from Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ):

Prosecutorial and investigative judgments must depend on the facts, and no one is above the law. But where it is clear that a government agent has acted in "reasonable and good-faith reliance on Justice Department legal opinions" authoritatively permitting his conduct, I would find it difficult to justify commencing a full-blown criminal investigation, let alone a prosecution.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/holder-aide-we-made-no-special-promises-to-bond.php

GREAT NEWS!

OMG! Who'd a thunk it?

those who crafted and ordered actions BASED on these "legal opinions" of the Justice Dept??

To make it look like they didn't cave. They took an indefensible position in the first place, so they put themselves in this position. Morans!

me to hear that Rove was initiating this whole endeavor to get Holder out of this position. They are all scared shitless of this guy as AG.

I will dance in the street the day that man faces the justice he attempted to subvert!

it's still prominent on their website

He says no one is above the law and at the same time says there won't be a full investigation on illegal activities if the person was acting on good faith reliance on Justice Department legal opinions. I have not heard of the Justice Department superseding the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. Just where in the Constitution is that article or where is that statute?

Make a nice fat list of allegations and accused parties. Demand in the loudest maximum terms that Holder make individual assurances of never pursuing any of these cases as a condition of his appointment. Have party leaders Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh do a joint press conference calling for a nationwide Freeper mobilization in defense of blanket eternal immunity for every last Bush regime member.

Don't back down!

not the torture, necessarily.