Holder knew that advocating for Jose Padilla, aka Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, found guilty of conspiring to kill people in an overseas jihad and to funding and supporting overseas terrorism, would have been a nomination killer. Padilla planned to build and explode a “dirty bomb” in the United States. Who would confirm an attorney general who litigates, advocates for an enemy who wants to conquer and kill this nation?

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Attorney General Withheld Seven Legal Briefs From Senate During Nomination Process

POLITICO: Report: Nearly 100 misconduct allegations in 2009. “Nearly 100 allegations of senatorial misconduct were made in 2009, and 13 preliminary investigations over potential breaches of Senate ethics rules were launched, according to a report issued Friday by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics.” Roughly one per Senator.

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THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ON Chris Dodd’s poor personal decisions. “Far more troubling was Dodd’s relationship with mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, which appears to have given him a sweetheart deal on a pair of loans under a VIP program called “Friends of Angelo,” named for former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. Though Dodd was cleared of wrongdoing by the Senate Ethics Committee, he should have known better than to accept special terms from a company whose regulation he oversaw.

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HOT AIR: “According to a report from Ohio today, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has asked the ACORN-tainted Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, to investigation ACORN’s voter registration work in the state.” Hot Air does lots of dot-connecting.

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BYRON YORK: Did Holder stiff Senate on Justice Dept.

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TAXPROF: enate to Move Forward on Lael Brainard’s Nomination Despite Tax Problem. “The tax problems are (1) twelve late payments of real estate and personal property taxes, and late payment of unemployment taxes; (2) failure to timely file employment eligibility verification forms for her household help; and (3) failure to substantiate home office deductions.

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STIMULUS! Dave Obey Chides Obama Administration For ‘Stupid Mistakes’ On Stimulus Reporting.

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STIMULUS! Dave Obey Chides Obama Administration For ‘Stupid Mistakes’ On Stimulus Reporting.

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Hoekstra to launch investigation into Fort Hood shooting, dubs it 'homegrown jihadism' A key Republican lawmaker on Monday asked that the Obama administration keep documents relevant to the Fort Hood shooting available so Congress can continue its investigation into what he called an incident of “homegrown jihadism.” Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a preservation order to the heads of the FBI, CIA, NSA and Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair directing them to keep the documents as part of his committee's review of the attacks that killed 13 and wounded 30. In a release, Hoekstra accused the administration of dragging its feet in releasing items pertaining to the attacks that could prove the perpetrator, Maj

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Emails Discovered from Major Muslim Nidal Hassan to Al Qaeda UPDATE: OBAMA WITHHOLDING INFO PERTAINING TO HASAN’S JIHAD

CHRIS DODD UPDATE: U.S. House Committee To Subpoena Countrywide Records. Of course, some of those records have been “lost.”

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THE HILL: Democrats Lock Republicans Out Of Committee Room.

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