Chicago Sun-Times
Eric Holder and Barack Obama before Controversy
Eric Holder —President-elect Barack Obama’s pick to head the Justice Department —has amended his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation paperwork to include a tie to Gov. Blagojevich.
That follows a report Dec. 17 in the Chicago Sun-Times disclosing that Holder had left out the fact that Blagojevich planned to appoint him in 2004 as a special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board and that Holder had made a public appearance with the governor regarding that effort.
On Dec. 19,Holder filed “supplemental responses . . . to the Committee’s questionnaire relating to my nomination as Attorney General.”