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The night before, he'd stood on the roof of the White House alongside the president of the United States, leaning over a railing to watch fireworks burst over the Mall, the monuments to Lincoln and Washington aglow at either end. "I was so struck by the fact that for the first time in history an African-American was presiding over this celebration of what our nation is all about," he says. Now, sitting at his kitchen table in jeans and a gray polo shirt, as his 11-year-old son, Buddy, dashes in and out of the room, Holder is reflecting on his own role. He doesn't dwell on the fact that he's the country's first black attorney general. He is focused instead on the tension that the best of his predecessors have confronted: how does one faithfully serve both the law and the president?</p> <p> <div class="inlineComponentRight"> <div id="brightcove206468" class="mm-content"> </div> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var config = new Object(); config["divid"] = "brightcove206468"; config["type"] = "mini_lineup"; config["configpid"] = "452329876"; config["rsspid"] = "17185518001"; config["rsslid"] = "29107127001"; config["titleid"] = "29301063001"; config["numItems"] = "8"; config["lineupCollapse"] = "false"; config["lineupName"] = "MORE VIDEO"; config["videoPreview"] = "false"; config["autoStart"] = "false"; config["width"] = 286; config["height"] = 366; config["styleclass"] = "brightcove-mini-player"; config["activeTab"] = "video"; config["bgColor"] = "#ffffff"; config["url"] = "206468"; if (typeof(commercialNode) != 'undefined') config["commercialNode"] = commercialNode; if (typeof(commercialNode) != 'undefined') placeAd2("video/"+commercialNode,'video',false,''); bcFullscreenPlayer(config); </script> </div> </p> <p>Alone among cabinet officers, attorneys general are partisan appointees expected to rise above partisanship. All struggle to find a happy medium between loyalty and independence. Few succeed. At one extreme looms Alberto Gonzales, who allowed the Justice Department to be run like Tammany Hall. At the other is Janet Reno, whose righteousness and folksy eccentricities marginalized her within the Clinton administration. Lean too far one way and you corrupt the office, too far the other way and you render yourself impotent. Mindful of history, Holder is trying to get the balance right. "You have the responsibility of enforcing the nation's laws, and you have to be seen as neutral, detached, and nonpartisan in that effort," Holder says. "But the reality of being A.G. is that I'm also part of the president's team. I want the president to succeed; I campaigned for him. I share his world view and values."</p> <p>These are not just the philosophical musings of a new attorney general. Holder, 58, may be on the verge of asserting his independence in a profound way. Four knowledgeable sources tell NEWSWEEK that he is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices, something the president has been reluctant to do. While no final decision has been made, an announcement could come in a matter of weeks, say these sources, who decline to be identified discussing a sensitive law-enforcement matter. Such a decision would roil the country, would likely plunge Washington into a new round of partisan warfare, and could even imperil Obama's domestic priorities, including health care and energy reform. Holder knows all this, and he has been wrestling with the question for months. "I hope that whatever decision I make would not have a negative impact on the president's agenda," he says. "But that can't be a part of my decision." </p> <p>Holder is not a natural renegade. His first instinct is to shy away from confrontation, to search for common ground. If he disagrees with you, he's likely to compliment you first before staking out an opposing position. "Now, you see, that's interesting," he'll begin, gently. As a trial judge in Washington, D.C., in the late 1980s and early '90s, he was known as a tough sentencer ("Hold-'em Holder"). But he even managed to win over convicts he was putting behind bars. "As a judge, he had a natural grace," recalls Reid Weingarten, a former Justice Department colleague and a close friend. "He was so sensitive when he sent someone off to prison, the guy would thank him." Holder acknowledges that he struggles against a tendency to please, that he's had to learn to be more assertive over the years. "The thing I have to watch out for is the desire to be a team player," he says, well aware that he's on the verge of becoming something else entirely.</p> <div class="ad"> <div class="mediumRectangle"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> placeAd2(commercialNode,'bigbox',false,'') </script></div></div> <p>When Holder and his wife, Sharon Malone, glide into a dinner party they change the atmosphere. In a town famous for its drabness, they're an attractive, poised, and uncommonly elegant pair鈥攏ot unlike the new first couple. But they're also a study in contrasts. Holder is disarmingly grounded, with none of the false humility that usually signals vanity in a Washington player. He plunges into conversation with a smile, utterly comfortable in his skin. His wife, at first, is more guarded. She grew up in the Deep South under Jim Crow鈥攈er sister, Vivian Malone Jones, integrated the University of Alabama鈥攁nd has a fierce sense of right and wrong. 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I wouldn't be surprised if the FBI tried to cover it up. But I still believe it to have been the result of incompetence and excessive force rather than some sort of overarching conspiracy.<br/><br/>Hey, maybe not that different from Bush after all, really. Holder and Reno have done something that gives me more faith in them, however, and that is to have admitted error in the handling of that situation. I have not yet heard anyone from the GOP say that Abu Ghraib or the allegations of abuse at Gitmo were a shitstorming fiasco. Holder and Reno have, on the other hand, admitted to error in the handling of Waco. And the fact remains that I still do not believe that there was a deliberate desire to wipe out the Davidians on the part of the ATF prior to the siege. Bush's torture policies, on the other hand, were very, very much designed to cause deliberate harm and pain from the beginning, and his kill policies (let's not forget how many people we killed while discussing the three waterboarding suspects we know about) rescinded the 90% confidence rule and stripped away any notion that we cared if we killed innocents.<br/><br/>Do I know ABSOLUTELY CERTAINLY that there wasn't some sort of "let's murder these folks" mentality in Reno's Justice Dept. towards the Davidians? No, I don't, but I really doubt it. I do believe tear gas was used in an attempt to spare human life. 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Ford pardoned Nixon and took heat for it, and I think Holder needs to let it go in the name of looking forward.</p> </div> </li> <li class="top-level"> <ul class="comment-options right"> <li> <a id="reply_1083634" class="reply" href="javascript:void(0);" name="anchor_1083634">Reply</a> </li> <li class="last"> <a id="report_1083634" class="report" href="javascript:void(0);">Report Abuse</a> </li> </ul> <h6>Posted By: Vigilance @ 07/14/2009 10:46:03 PM</h6> <div class="post-content"> <p>I and others had discerned the reason as credible accusations of pedophilia against the cult's leader, a stockpile of military-grade weapons with dubious paperwork, Koresh teaching his followers that the government was the enemy, and Koresh resisting calls to surrender himself peacefully. 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