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Revealed: The Justice Dept's secret rules for targeting journalists with FISA court orders
Revealed: The Justice Dept's secret rules for targeting journalists with FISA court orders Should this be added to the article?Terrorist96 (talk) 10:35 am, Today (UTC−4)
Introduction is very misleading
How come the lead of the article does not mention that Eric Holder was a corporate lawyer? He worked for a law firm, Covington & Burling, that exclusively specialized in representing the interests of multinational corporations, both before he joined the Obama administration and afterwards. He is still there today. He even brought many of the top attorneys of his Department of Justice, such as Lanny Breuer, and DOJ chief of staff, Margaret Richardson, from the same corporate law firm. The marketing slogan of the law firm is, "We will get you the best deal," according to the American Lawyer. And following the largest economic collapse in U.S. and global history in 2008, Eric Holder, who acceded to office at the start of 2009, refused to prosecute any of the executives involved in what has been publicly recognized as fraudulent and illegal behavior on the part of the commercial and investment banks that were at the center of the crisis. There are numerous articles on this obvious conflict of interest. The reason why every single person walked away scot-free, is because Eric Holder represented those same corporate clients before he became Attorney General, and after he became Attorney General. That needs to be included or inferred in the summary, to provide a fair and balanced article on this ex-government official's biographical rendering. Stevenmitchell (talk) 21:43, 17 August 2020 (UTC)