Attorney General Eric Holder’s oversight hearing gets heated over 9/11 trials

Your agency head testifies at oversight hearings pretty regularly. But when he\'s just decided a few days ago to let a 9/11 criminal mastermind into the country for...

Your agency head testifies at oversight hearings pretty regularly. But when he’s just decided a few days ago to let a 9/11 criminal mastermind into the country for trial, those oversight hearings don’t run in the normal way. That’s the situation Attorney General Eric Holder found himself in today as he went before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Although much of the questioning focused on the terror trials, several Senators (including those featured in the highlights we played) wanted to know a lot about operational issues at DoJ.

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