BuzzFeed - While several progressive, particularly civil rights groups, praised Obamaâs nomination of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to be the next attorney general, the American Civil Liberties Union was silent. U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, President Obama's attorney general nominee, speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on November 8, 2014. Yuri Gripas / Reuters WASHINGTON â President Obama's rushed announcement on Saturday morning that he has picked U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch as his nominee to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder was met with laudatory news releases from many on the left. One notable group is missing from the praise for the Brooklyn prosecutor: the American Civil Liberties Union. In the past, the group has clashed with the Obama administration's Justice Department on national security and press freedom issues. Although the head of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office recently spoke with BuzzFeed News about the future of the Justice Depa
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