{"id":184863,"date":"2012-01-01T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/01\/i-may-be-wrong-about-eric-holder\/"},"modified":"2012-01-01T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:55:00","slug":"i-may-be-wrong-about-eric-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/01\/i-may-be-wrong-about-eric-holder\/","title":{"rendered":"I May Be Wrong About Eric Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it does appear that he is <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/karoli\/doj-aggressively-investigating-police-bruta\">actually investigating allegations of police brutality<\/a>, with investigations being described as having, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/views\/epidemic-excessive-force-police\">mushroomed to unprecedented levels<\/a>,&#8221; involving investigations of the Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Department&nbsp; (Joe Arpaio), Seattle&#8217;s police department,&nbsp; Newark, East Haven, Miami, and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>The cynic in me notes that Obama&#8217;s closest move toward action on this matter was his now-disavowed comments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32122967\/ns\/us_news-life\/t\/obama-poor-choice-words-scholars-arrest\/#.TwFD-PL4WuI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrest of professor Henry Louis Gates<\/a>, which, when juxtaposed with his history is one of studiously avoiding involvement in any issue that might remind people that he&#8217;s black, would lead me to conclude that he is studiously uninvolved with this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to clear White House directives on torture and the banksters, where it is clear that the word went out that there would be no prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m assuming that the fact that actual law enforcement is occurring here because the Obama administration is largely uninvolved with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it does appear that he is actually investigating allegations of police brutality, with investigations being described as having, &#8220;mushroomed to unprecedented levels,&#8221; involving investigations of the Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Department&nbsp; (Joe Arpaio), Seattle&#8217;s police department,&nbsp; Newark, East Haven, Miami, and Puerto Rico. The cynic in me notes that Obama&#8217;s closest move toward action on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1041,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}