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Attorney General Holder Announces Federal Election Monitors, Urges All Americans to Vote
As Americans across the country prepare to vote in tomorrow #39;s midterm elections, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice has dispatched federal monitors to polling...

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Private emails tied to the "Fast and Furious" scandal reveal Attorney General Eric Holder fiercely attacking his critics, saying the Republican lawmaker leading a congressional probe into the matter just wanted to "cripple" a law enforcement agency and "suck up to the gun lobby."

At the time, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., was raising alarms over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation in Arizona that put guns into the hands of criminals in Mexico, two of which ended up at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

As Issa was looking to bring more witnesses before his committee to testify in April 2011, Holder's chief of staff warned the attorney general in an email that the matter "keeps escalating."

"Issa and his idiot cronies never gave a damn about this when all that was happening was that thousands of Mexicans were being killed with guns from our country," Holder shot back in an email. "All they want to do -- in reality -- is cripple ATF and suck up to the gun lobby. Politics at its worst."

That email was just one of more than 64,000 pages turned over to lawyers within the House on Tuesday -- just hours before polls across the country close in a hotly contested battle between Republicans and Democrats for control of the Senate.

The Election Day dump of documents came after a lengthy court fight over whether the Justice Department must turn over certain documents detailing the department's response to media reports uncovering "Fast and Furious." Over the summer, a federal judge refused to let the department withhold those documents.

Among other documents turned over Tuesday was an email offering the first contemporaneous evidence that Holder knew nothing about the ill-fated gunrunning probe while it was under way.

Memos briefly describing "Fast and Furious" had been sent to Holder's office at the time, and Justice officials have long accused Republicans of leaking those memos to the media in an attempt to tie him to the botched investigation.

But when news reports mentioning those memos were forwarded to Holder in late 2011, he privately responded to colleagues by saying, "I didn't read them. I rarely do."

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WASHINGTON The deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security has emerged as a leading contender to be the next US attorney general, well-placed sources told The Post.

Cuban-American lawyer Alejandro Mayorkas is on the short list of candidates to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, the sources said. Hes one of the top candidates. He has all the qualifications needed to succeed in the job, one insider said.

Moyorkas has been bolstered by the support of the countrys largest law enforcement officers organization, the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP).

National president Chuck Canterbury penned an Oct. 31 letter on behalf of Moyorkas and sent it to President Obama at the White House.

The letter, a copy of which was exclusively obtained by The Post, glowingly lays out Mayorkas public service experience in Washington, DC.

The FOP enthusiastically supported his nomination to his current post as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and it has been a true pleasure working with him in that capacity over the last year, Canterbury wrote. We have no doubt that Mr. Mayorkas has the requisite ability and experience to lead the U.S. Justice Department and meet the challenges in the years ahead.

Before DHS, Mayorkas was director of US citizenship and Immigration Services the biggest immigration system in the world with a $3 billion budget and 18,000 workers.

The insider said Mayorkas is the only candidate for attorney general with extensive managerial experience in DC.

Its essential to have managerial experience in a vast and complex agency like DOJ. Its not good enough to just be a lawyer, the insider said.

The insider pointed out that another top contender, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District Loretta Lynch, falls down in that area.

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Eric Holder admits his biggest error
With attorney general Eric Holder ready to leave office he gave an interview in which he disclosed what his biggest regret was.

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that he does not know enough about the decision to close airspace above Ferguson, Missouri reportedly to keep out the media during unrest to say whether the Justice Department will investigate. But Holder did say that he supports "transparency" during news events. "Anything that would artificially inhibit the ability of news gatherers to do what they do I think is something that needs to be avoided," he said.

The Associated Press has reported that recordings obtained through a Freedom of Information request reveal that local authorities wanted the Federal Aviation Administration to close 37 miles of airspace around Ferguson to stop news helicopters from filming protests and clashes that erupted after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager in August.

St. Louis Police have insisted the request was made solely for safety reasons, but one FAA manager said in a recorded telephone call that "they finally admitted it really was to keep the media out," the Associated Press reported. Another manager at the FAA's Kansas City center said police "did not care if you ran commercial traffic through this TFR (temporary flight restriction) all day long. They didn't want media in there."

Asked about the report at a news conference, Holder said he didn't know "an awful lot about what the nature of the request was and how it impacted news coverage and helicopters and things of that nature." Asked if a no-fly zone targeting news outlets something authorities could investigate, Holder said he didn't know enough about the situation and the communication between the FAA and the police to respond.

First published November 3 2014, 9:18 AM

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