Eric Holder: My Humble Contribution to History [Montage]

Today the Department of Justice set the tone for Attorney General Holder's final send off, releasing a lengthy, hagiographic video documenting his tenure in office. The undoubtedly expensive production featured interviews with Holder's wife, Sharon Malone, Sens. Whitehouse and Leahy, Rep. John Lewis, the secretary of Labor, Tom Perez, as well as former president Bill Clinton. All testified to the historic nature of his time in office. At the end the DoJ listed his "key accomplishments," where the "historic" theme continued:

Largest mafia takedown in U.S. history; Depoliticized DOJ’s hiring practices;

Recommended DOJ no longer defend DOMA;

Implemented federal benefits for same-sex married couples;

Required videotaping of all federal investigations;

Strenghtened DOJ’s criminal discovery rules;

Modernized violent crime prosecutions in Indian Country;

Most constitutional policing investigations in U.S. history;

Most hate crime prosecutions in over a decade;

Historic investments in reentry programs;

Restricted mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses;

Convicted hundreds of terrorism cases;

Held BP criminally responsible in Gulf Oil Spill Disaster;

Provided grants to hire thousands of new police officers;

Modernized DOJ’s media guidelines;

Record penalties on banks involved in financial crisis;

Largest recoveries under False Claims Act in history;

Improved reporting to gun background check system;

Record number of human trafficking cases;

Sued to protect voting rights in states;

Protected indigent defendants’ right to counsel;

Successfully defended EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse.

Today Holder gave his final farewell (actually, as he acknowledged, his third farewell speech). And here the "historic" theme continued, where he referenced his place in history no fewer than seven times in a 12 minute speech. Take a look.