Holder’s legacy: counterterrorism to civil rights

By Jim Kuhnhenn

Published September 26, 2014 9:00am ET

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Holder’s legacy: counterterrorism to civil rights — President Barack Obama, accompanied by Attorney General Eric Holder, speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House to announce Holder is resigning, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, in Washington. Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration's legal fight against terrorism and weighed in on issues of racial fairness, is resigning after six years on the job. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) | Evan Vucci

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder, who is resigning as attorney general, leaves a legacy built over six years during which he was in the vanguard of administration policymaking but also the subject of intense criticism from Republicans. A look the legacy of the nation’s first black attorney general and one of President Barack Obama’s longest-serving Cabinet members:

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