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Attorney General Eric Holder took aim at former Defense and CIA chief Leon Panetta on Monday, whose recently-published memoir accused President Barack Obama of vacillating over policy in Syria and damaging U.S. credibility.
Holder, in an interview with CNN, defended the president's decisiveness and said Panetta acted improperly by dishing on the president.
"I think [what] Leon said in the book is unfortunate. But frankly, I don't think it's something that a former Cabinet member should do while the president he served is still in office," Holder said. "That's not something that I would even co
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