Changes

Holder does not believe in the [[Second Amendment]] and supported the unconstitutional ban on handguns in Washington D.C.<ref>http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/holder_obama_guns/2009/01/15/171877.html</ref> On February 25, 2009 Holder told reporters that he wants an "assault weapons ban."<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1</ref> Second amendment scholar Stephen Halbrook testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that while Holder was Clinton's deputy attorney general, the Justice Department broke federal law by storing records of firearms purchases.<ref>http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsID=118</ref>

Holder does not believe in the [[Second Amendment]] and supported the unconstitutional ban on handguns in Washington D.C.<ref>http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/holder_obama_guns/2009/01/15/171877.html</ref> On February 25, 2009 Holder told reporters that he wants an "assault weapons ban."<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1</ref> Second amendment scholar Stephen Halbrook testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that while Holder was Clinton's deputy attorney general, the Justice Department broke federal law by storing records of firearms purchases.<ref>http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsID=118</ref>

In February 2009, Holder called America, "A Nation of Cowards."<ref>[http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/02/holder_america_is_a_nation_of.asp Holder: America Is "A Nation of Cowards"]</ref>

Shortly after his appointment by [[President Obama]] in February 2009, Holder called the America people "a nation of cowards."<ref>[http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/02/holder_america_is_a_nation_of.asp Holder: America Is "A Nation of Cowards"]</ref>

==Fast and Furious scandal==

==Fast and Furious scandal==

On March 10, 2011, Holder made his first of many comments about the Justice Department's internal investigation, telling Texas Senator [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] that he had "asked the Inspector General to try to get to the bottom of it."  Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar was asked to head an independent investigation. Holder had been in effect Schnedar's boss from 1994 until 1997 while she served as assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in the 90s.  During Ms. Schnedar's tenure the two had worked a number of cases together.<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/fast_and_furious_in_a_rotten_nutshell.html#ixzz27iRBCN28 Fast and Furious in a Rotten Nutshell], Ronald Kolb, ''American Thinker'', October 7, 2011,</ref> Schnedar quit shortly before the Inspector General's Report was issued, clearing Holder. The bulk of the report throughout was done by Schnedar, but Press Releases attributed the report to her replacement.<ref>[http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/22/fast_and_furious_doj_inspector_general_report_delivered Fast and Furious: DOJ Inspector General Report Delivered], Katie Pavlich, ''Townhall'', August 22, 2012.</ref>

On March 10, 2011 Holder made his first of many comments about the Justice Department's internal investigation, telling Texas Senator [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] that he had "asked the Inspector General to try to get to the bottom of it."  Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar was asked to head an independent investigation. Holder had been in effect Schnedar's boss from 1994 until 1997 while she served as assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in the 90s.  During Ms. Schnedar's tenure the two had worked a number of cases together.<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/fast_and_furious_in_a_rotten_nutshell.html#ixzz27iRBCN28 Fast and Furious in a Rotten Nutshell], Ronald Kolb, ''American Thinker'', October 7, 2011,</ref> Schnedar quit shortly before the Inspector General's Report was issued, clearing Holder. The bulk of the report throughout was done by Schnedar, but Press Releases attributed the report to her replacement.<ref>[http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/22/fast_and_furious_doj_inspector_general_report_delivered Fast and Furious: DOJ Inspector General Report Delivered], Katie Pavlich, ''Townhall'', August 22, 2012.</ref>

==Terrorist pardons==

==Terrorist pardons==