Holder doesn't help himself with how secretive the administration is about stuff. Calling him the "worst AG ever" is some of the most nonsensical hyperbole ever uttered on this board (do we need to go back to Mr. Palmer
and no, he is not worse than Ashcroft). The thing is, he never explains anything and just leaves it up to the media and conjecture to fill in the void. I appreciate what he's done with the DOJ's Civil Rights Division after what the Bush Administration had done to it, but overall his tenure has been a disappointment. It's a shame, he was supposed to be one of the buffers against Rahm Emanuel's political calculation, and it was supposed to be a celebration when Rahm left. In my short life, I've come across a lot of politicians and government attorneys just based on family relationships and places I've worked. Holder is one of the 4 or 5 people that I can say I genuinely liked. His tenure disappoints me more than most because I actually expected something out of him, and it's not because of the cases he did bring (he brought a lot of cases the Bush administration would not), but it's the ones he didn't bring, and I can't entirely put the blame on him. His entire tenure shows that the moderate to center-right segment of the White House, and of the Democratic apparatus won out over the more progressive attorneys like him and Craig. I suppose I should've sen it coming when Craig was forced out.
As for the marijuana issue, attorneys for the most part don't even like prosecuting it, everyone I know considered it an annoyance and waste of their resources from CA to DC to New England, I'll never understand that shyt.