"Though Mr. Rosen attempts to restore Mitchell's reputation, "The Strong Man' is no whitewash. Mr. Rosen presents the evidence of Mitchell's abuse of the public trust in detail, including the extensive espionage he ordered of left-wing groups and his secret efforts to undermine the 1968 Paris Peace Talks by secretly urging South Vietnamese officials not to agree to a peace deal that Mitchell and Nixon feared would tip the election in Hubert Humphrey's favor.
"These abuses are mitigated only by the fact that others around him were more corrupt. "Mitchell used his power to advance the greater good,' Mr. Rosen writes, "which he happened to see as indistinguishable from the fortunes of Richard Nixon'."
The targeting of James Rosen in 2009, which seems to have had nothing to do with partisan politics, has now, in 2013, contributed to great hue and cry, among beltway journalists and Republicans especially, with Sen. Cruz making perhaps the most demagogic comments, though hardly unprecedented. But it's this over-reach, this detachment from documentable reality that will help Eric Holder the more it makes him look like a victim and scapegoat.
At this point it's not clear what, if anything, Eric Holder may have done that was unethical and/or criminal. What is clear is what he hasn't done -- he has not engaged in the least bit of overzealous prosecution of bankers, torturers, executive
branch war criminals, or others who have done so much damage to the country in recent decades.
And almost no one takes him to task for that.
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