A top-ranking “Senate Republican suggested that Attorney General Eric Holder should ‘step down’ one year into the job,” The Hill reports.
GOP Conference Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) said on "Fox News Sunday" that the embattled Holder likely made the decision to read Miranda rights to accused underpants bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, after 50 minutes of interrogation by the FBI.
"Perhaps he should step down," Alexander said on Sunday morning.
"(Holder’s) doing a better job of interrogating CIA employees than he is of interrogating terrorists, and he’s not making a distinction between enemy combatants and terrorists flying into Detroit trying to blow up planes and American citizens who are committing a crime. He needs to go to Congress and say I made that decsion, and here’s why. And based on that perhaps he should step down," Alexander explained.
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