Mistaking Defiance for Principle

Apparently there will be some debate over the legacy of Eric Holder at Justice. This goes to show how wonderfully diverse our community thinking has become; some people actually think his tenure has been reasonable.  As a deputy attorney general in 1999, he recommended pardons for 14 Puerto Rican terrorists. A year later, he did the same for fugitive financier Marc Rich. Marc Rich! He then, as AG, created the Fast and Furious program that provided weapons for drug cartels for some still unexplained reason, ignored the IRS abuse and political targeting, developed a program for dealing with illegal immigrants that can only be called a non-program, created a similar non-policy toward the perpetrators of the sub-prime crash, became the first AG in the history of the nation to be held in criminal contempt of Congress and somehow, aided and abetted by the President of the United States, turned race into the prime focus of the country's legal system.

In a society that mistakes defiance for principle, Holder has found a niche.
The debate should not be over the quality of his leadership but rather whether or not the disasters he created were criminal or just stupid.