In College, Attorney General Holder was “Fast and “Furious”
Univision is poised to report details on the “Fast and Furious” scandal, providing incriminating information that has yet been unavailable to Congress.
Via The College Fix: The Daily Caller reviews Attorney General Eric Holder’s radical college years, since he is the center of the Department of Justice scandal:
As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters with a group of black students later described by the university’s Black Students’ Organization as “armed,” The Daily Caller has learned.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has not responded to questions from The Daily Caller about whether Holder himself was armed — and if so, with what sort of weapon.
Holder was then among the leaders of the Student Afro-American Society (SAAS), which demanded that the former ROTC office be renamed the “Malcolm X Lounge.” The change, the group insisted, was to be made “in honor of a man who recognized the importance of territory as a basis for nationhood.”
Black radicals from the same group also occupied the office of Dean of Freshman Henry Coleman until their demands were met. Holder has publicly acknowledged being a part of that action.
The details of the student-led occupation, including the claim that the raiders were “armed,” come from a deleted Web page of the Black Students’ Organization (BSO) at Columbia, a successor group to the SAAS. Contemporary newspaper accounts in The Columbia Daily Spectator, a student newspaper, did not mention weapons.
Holder has bragged about his involvement in the “rise of black consciousness” protests at Columbia.
The Daily Caller notes that Holder has bragged about his involvement in the “rise of black consciousness” protests at Columbia, and also describes the radicalism of the black student organization with which Holder was involved. An example of this renegade approach is the nature of its support of the Black Panther Party.
In March 1970 the SAAS released a statement supporting twenty-one Black Panthers charged with plotting to blow up department stores, railroad tracks, a police station and the New York Botanical Gardens.
The SAAS, along with the SDS and other radical campus groups, staged a campus rally on March 12, 1970…The rally’s purpose, The Columbia Daily Spectator reported, was to raise bail money for the twenty other Panthers and to call on District Attorney Frank Hogan to drop the charges.
As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office (The Daily Caller)
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This guy is our attorney general? How? Only in Washington.