Post by Origanalist on Jul 18, 2014 7:12:57 GMT -8
Obama’s Enforcer Eric Holder’s Justice Department by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky
After reading Obama’s Enforcer this reviewer felt like Rip van Winkle. What was once the freest nation in the world became an oligarchy while I, and apparently the rest of the country, slept. Of course, it’s been obvious for quite awhile that the Obama administration disregards the rule of law when it serves the president’s purposes, but thanks to a complicit or cowardly media – choose one – the extent and frequency are mostly unknown.
Obama’s Enforcer does an excellent job of rectifying that problem. John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky provide a detailed account of how Attorney General Eric Holder transformed the Department of Justice (DOJ) from a non-partisan agency, charged with administering fair and impartial justice, to a corrupt partisan enforcer of Obama’s ideological agenda. It is all here and substantiated by 24 pages of notes.
This powerful executive branch agency has “enormous discretionary power “ to decide which alleged lawbreakers to pursue and exerts “major influence over social, economic and national security policies.” Under Holder, DOJ has grown from a little over 105,000 employees in 2008 to 114,000 in 2013. In clear violation of civil service rules Holder has filled the career ranks of the Justice Department with political allies or cronies and Democratic Party donors.
Most Americans are not aware of the scope and power of the behemoth agency. In addition to the forty different offices within Justice…
Eric Holder also oversees the Bureau of prisons…the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); he Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; The U.S. Marshals Service; the Drug Enforcement Administration … In essence, the Justice Department is the largest law enforcement agency in the world with investigators and agents, lawyers, and prison officials all combined in one government department.
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After reading Obama’s Enforcer this reviewer felt like Rip van Winkle. What was once the freest nation in the world became an oligarchy while I, and apparently the rest of the country, slept. Of course, it’s been obvious for quite awhile that the Obama administration disregards the rule of law when it serves the president’s purposes, but thanks to a complicit or cowardly media – choose one – the extent and frequency are mostly unknown.
Obama’s Enforcer does an excellent job of rectifying that problem. John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky provide a detailed account of how Attorney General Eric Holder transformed the Department of Justice (DOJ) from a non-partisan agency, charged with administering fair and impartial justice, to a corrupt partisan enforcer of Obama’s ideological agenda. It is all here and substantiated by 24 pages of notes.
This powerful executive branch agency has “enormous discretionary power “ to decide which alleged lawbreakers to pursue and exerts “major influence over social, economic and national security policies.” Under Holder, DOJ has grown from a little over 105,000 employees in 2008 to 114,000 in 2013. In clear violation of civil service rules Holder has filled the career ranks of the Justice Department with political allies or cronies and Democratic Party donors.
Most Americans are not aware of the scope and power of the behemoth agency. In addition to the forty different offices within Justice…
Eric Holder also oversees the Bureau of prisons…the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); he Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; The U.S. Marshals Service; the Drug Enforcement Administration … In essence, the Justice Department is the largest law enforcement agency in the world with investigators and agents, lawyers, and prison officials all combined in one government department.
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