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Richard Blumenthal’s resume would be the envy of anyone running for public office, graduating from Harvard College magna cum laude, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson, selected for a Fiske Fellowship to study at Cambridge University, earned his Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and serving as Connecticut’s Attorney General. Why would a guy with that resume stretch the truth by saying he served in Vietnam when he did not?

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Attorney General Eric Holder named a special prosecutor to do something President Obama initially said he was against, look back to the previous administration’s possible abuse of prisoners.

Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

President-elect Obama chooses Eric Holder to be Attorney General. A Columbia Law School graduate, Holder was appointed by Ronald Reagan to serve as Superior Court Judge of the District of Columbia. He stepped down in 1993 to accept an appointment to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. In 1997 Holder was elevated to Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno in the Clinton administration. He was generally viewed as a centrist in the Justice Department.

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