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President Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder previously worked for the large law firm of Covington & Burling, where he earned $2 million a year as a senior partner. This firm represented 17 terrorists under lock and key at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. One of the attorneys involved in defense of the terrorists dedicated his book "Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak," to "my friends inside the wire, Mamoad, Majid, Yasein, Saeed, Abdulsalam, Mohammed, Adnan, Jamal, Othman, Odil, Mohamed, Abdulmalik, Mareef, Adeq, Farouk, Salman and Makhtat. Inshallah, we will next meet over coffee in your homes in Yemen." One of the clients was released in 2005 and blew up himself in a truck bomb in Iraq, killing 13 Iraqi soldiers and wounding 42. As a senior partner, Holder had input on what cases the firm accepted. As attorney general, Holder has substantial conflict of interest issues with imprisoned terrorists and Guantanamo Bay.
Mark Falkoff, ed., "Poems from Guantanamo : The Detainees Speak," (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2007).