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Eric Holder's Baffling KSM Decision
Nov 20th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to question Attorney General Eric Holder about his decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in criminal courts rather than military tribunals...
4 Reasons Holder Failed to Convince Me on Terror Trials
Nov 20th, 2009 - FOXNews
In his recent appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder had the opportunity to outline clearly the Obama administration’s approach to the vexing legal issues surrounding the war against terrorists...
State suing credit raters over retirement fund losses
Nov 20th, 2009 - bizjournals
Ohio’s top lawyer is taking on the nation’s top three credit raters, alleging they inflated ratings on troubled mortgage-backed securities that wound up losing state pension funds $457 million when the housing market collapsed.
California's top officials to take 18% pay cut in December
Nov 20th, 2009 - MiamiHerald
Pay for California's top elected officials will be slashed by 18 percent next month, one year earlier than expected, to abide by an opinion issued Thursday from Attorney General Jerry Brown. Just in time for the holiday season...
Holder suggests acquittal won't free terrorist
Nov 19th, 2009 - Washington Times
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. let stand Wednesday a claim that confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will remain in U.S. custody even if he is acquitted in the so-called "trial of the century" scheduled for a New York courtroom.

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Speaking at a press conference on Feb 25 with DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, and reiterating a position made by the White House following DEA raids in California on February 4, US Attorney ...
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Red State Update: Attorney...
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Attorney General Greg Zoeller visited the State Fair to help Hoosiers search for unclaimed property. Search for YOUR unclaimed property at www.IndianaUnclaimed.com Unclaimed property includes ...

Attorney General from WikiPedia:

In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.

The term has traditionally been used to refer to any person who holds a general power of attorney to represent a principal in all matters. In the common law tradition, anyone who represents the state, especially in criminal prosecutions, is such an attorney. Although a government may designate some official as the permanent attorney general, anyone who comes to represent the state in the same way, even if only for a particular case, is an attorney general, and when that is a private individual, he may be distinguished from the permanent official as being a private or pro tempore attorney general.