Former Attorney General Eric Holder of the Obama Administration did not hold back on his tweet directed at the current AG Willam Barr, calling him “unfit.”
Here is the tweet:
“AG Barr has deliberately misrepresented the Mueller report. He has started examinations of the conduct of Intell/FBI personnel without a predicate-for political reasons. He is protecting the President. He does not stand up for the good people he leads. He is not fit to lead DOJ.” -Eric Holder
Holder served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015 under President Barack Obama. He was the first African American to hold the position of U.S. Attorney General. To see an incredibly extensive list of Holder’s accomplishments while in office, visit the government website Department of Justice Archives. Keep in mind, this was back in the day when the U.S. Attorney General and President of the United States served the people.
Some of Holder’ work with the Department of Justice is included below. These are the headings. There are also hundreds of detailed accomplishments in the DOJ Archives.
- The Department of Justice has thwarted multiple terrorist plots against the United States.
- The Department of Justice has successfully executed ground-breaking counter intelligence operations.
- The Department of Justice has prevented U.S. military and strategic technologies from falling into the wrong hands. The Department of Justice has continued to identify and disrupt Narco-terrorist networks.
- The Department has investigated and held accountable those responsible for financial fraud.
- The Department has secured justice for victims of lending discrimination or fraud.
- The Department has vigorously enforced the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA). The Department launched innovative programs to stop fraud in the residential mortgage-backed securities market.
- The Department has successfully prosecuted international cartels and domestic collusion conspiracies:
- The Department has prevented anticompetitive mergers and preserved market competition:
- The Department has established the most effective strike force in history to protect Medicare money:
- The Department has returned historic amounts of taxpayer dollars through the False Claims Act.
- The Department has vigorously protected the health, safety, and economic security of American consumers.
- The Department has expanded efforts to combat corruption at home and abroad.
- The Department has made historic progress in combating the diversion of controlled pharmaceuticals.
- The Department has made historic efforts to investigate and prosecute offshore tax evasion.
- The Department has protected billions of dollars claimed in abusive tax claims. The Department has saved taxpayers dollars by being more cost efficient.
- The Department has found record efficiencies in its budget and operations.
- The Department has renewed its commitment to Environmental Justice.
- The Department has successfully defended the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change and secured significant penalties, and the forfeiture of wrongfully claimed greenhouse gas emissions, through enforcement action.
- The Department has successfully defended two sets of important rules involving power plant emissions.
- The Department is assisting in efforts to increase production of renewable energy on public lands.
- The Department is committed to fighting the illegal trade in the world’s wildlife.
- Violent crime rates have steadily declined in the last five years as the Department has successfully prosecuted national, international gangs and traditional organized crime groups.
- The Department has successfully arrested and prosecuted large numbers of dangerous fugitives.
- The Department is working to hold accountable those responsible for the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.
- The Department is using innovative law enforcement strategies to prosecute cyber and intellectual property crime.
- The Department has provided unprecedented support for state and local law enforcement partners.
- The Department has made an unprecedented commitment to ensuring officer safety.
- The Department is supporting effective prisoner reentry and reinvestment programs.
- The Department has aggressively prosecuted child exploitation and pornography.
- The Department has launched initiatives to provide counsel to certain populations in immigration proceedings.
- The Department has expanded the successful Legal Orientation Program.
- The Department has charged a record number of human trafficking cases.
- The Department has enforced the rights of people with disabilities to remain in their communities rather than be institutionalized.
- The Department has responded to a crisis at the southern U.S. Border.The Department has enforced the Religious Land Use of Institutionalized Persons Act, and in the past five years under Attorney General Holder, the department has:
- The Department has effectively used the landmark Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act to enhance hate crime prosecutions.
- The Department launched the Defending Childhood Initiative.
- The Department has made significant investments to keep young people and communities safe.
- The Department has modernized the definition of rape in the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
- The Department has made an unprecedented commitment to reducing violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women.
- The Department continues to vigorously enforce the right of equal access to the ballot box.
- Expanding Equal Employment Opportunity in the Workplace.
- The Department has consistently defended the right for military personnel and their families as overseas civilians to vote.
- The Department continues to protect the voting rights of Alaska Natives and American Indians.
- The Department launched the first-ever Access to Justice Initiative.
- The Department has spearheaded unprecedented efforts to reform police departments throughout the country to ensure constitutional police practices.
- Juvenile Justice:
- Prison and Jail Conditions
- The Department has protected tribal sovereignty, tribal lands and resources and tribal treaty rights.