Obama keeps Holder as Attorney General

By JOSH MARGOLIN

• Last Updated: 3:04 AM, November 13, 2012

President Obama is holding on to Eric Holder as the nation’s top law-enforcement official, The Post has learned.

The newly re-elected president asked his controversial attorney general to stay for the second term, and Holder has agreed despite enduring a firestorm of criticism from Republican lawmakers.

“I don’t know if everyone in the White House wants him [Holder] to stay, but the important guy does, and that’s all that matters,” said one person briefed on the matter.

Holder’s office declined to comment.

His hardest-fought battle came over the botched sting operation called Fast and Furious, which allowed Mexican drug gangs to get their hands on American guns.

ERIC HOLDER
Contempt of Congress.

Holder, 61, was accused of stonewalling a House investigation into the case and was held in contempt of Congress this year.

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