Caught red handed.

“After Eric Holder’s confirmation hearing nearly two weeks ago, senators on the Judiciary Committee submitted follow-up questions for him to answer in writing. In his hearing testimony, as in 2001 when Congress investigated the scandalous Clinton pardons, Holder’s feeble explanation for the central role he played in the Marc Rich pardon was that he didn’t really know who fugitive financier was, and never took the time to inform himself, when he was approached to intercede on Rich’s behalf. In his follow-up questions (question 1b, specifically) Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican, probed Holder’s claim of ignorance:

Specter: Did you receive information about the facts of the Rich case from anyone other than Mr. Rich’s attorney, Jack Quinn?

Holder: No.

Oops. Evidently, that time in 1995 when Holder (then U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia) had his office sue one of Rich’s companies for concealing its relationship to Rich in order to obtain $45 million in government contracts must have slipped his mind.”

Yeah, like Timothy Geithner forgot to pay his taxes. Just a $39,000 slip of mind.

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