The widely-reported selection of Eric Holder as Barack Obama’s Attorney General represents another Clinton-era retread and calls into question whether President-elect Obama is committed to “change we can believe in.”

Holder’s biggest drawback is his involvement with the Clinton pardon of billionaire fugitive Marc Rich.

Obama’s selection of Holder follows speculation that Hillary Clinton will be nominated to be his Secretary of State. Obama successfully campaigned on the idea that electing John McCain as the next president would amount to a third Bush term. If Obama keeps selecting from the Clinton “gene pool,” critics might say this is an effort to have a third Clinton term.

Holder’s biggest drawback is his involvement with the Clinton pardon of billionaire fugitive Marc Rich. Rich was the commodities trader who fled the country in 1983 to escape prosecution for tax evasion, racketeering, and trading with the enemy. As reported by Pajamas Media and elsewhere, Rich’s attorneys circumvented normal procedures, took the pardon to the White House attorneys, and gained pardon for their client, whose wife just happened to be a friend and major donor to the Clinton Library, the Democratic Party, and Clinton’s legal defense fund. A firestorm ensued as did congressional investigations in which Democrats as well as Republicans excoriated the Clintons’ conduct.

It is doubtful Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee will make much of this but Republicans should — and must — demand more details about that Rich pardon, which have yet to come out.