“The president is the chief law enforcement officer in the administration. He’s now saying, well, this isn’t anything that he’s got anything to do with. He’s up on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard and his attorney general is going back and doing something that the president said some months ago he wouldn’t do.”
The former vice president said in an interview on “FOX News Sunday” that President Obama has final authority to make law enforcement decisions. Cheney, whose muscular view of executive power underlay many of the controversies of the Bush administration, referred to Holder as a “political appointee.”
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alberto gonzales was asked if he considered himself just a “political appointee” but he said he, “couldn’t recall”.
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