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Lockerbie Release: Eric Holder knew in June
National Review ^ | 09/01 12:22 PM | Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on 09/01/2009 11:00:13 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Attorney General Eric Holder warned his Scottish counterpart in June that the man convicted of blowing US-bound Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky could get a hero’s welcome if allowed to return to Libya, according to the head of a group representing the families of victims.

Holder’s warning to Scotland’s justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, came nearly two months before the bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was released from a Scottish prison and greeted by a cheering crowd on his arrival in Libya last week.

Notes prepared ahead of Holder’s June 26 conversation with MacAskill were provided to the Associated Press by Frank Duggan, president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 Inc. Duggan said a Justice Department official read him notes that Holder used during the conversation.

Duggan also provided notes of a July 9 teleconference between MacAskill and some victims’ relatives, an emotional exchange in which family members told stories of their loved ones and implored MacAskill not to return Megrahi to Libya.

(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Testing; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: almegrahi; ericholder; holder; june; kennymacaskill; knew; libya; lockerbie; macaskill
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1 posted on 09/01/2009 11:00:14 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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Are we surprised?


2 posted on 09/01/2009 11:00:51 AM PDT by bergmeid
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Did O do anyhthing to stop this?


3 posted on 09/01/2009 11:01:24 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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Tick, Tick, Tick bump


4 posted on 09/01/2009 11:01:25 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: bergmeid

Obama knew.


5 posted on 09/01/2009 11:01:51 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

If Holder knew, obama knew.


6 posted on 09/01/2009 11:02:52 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I remember someone here on FR that asked how long until Øbama threw Holder under the bus for the backlash over the CIA investigations. Could it be starting now?


7 posted on 09/01/2009 11:03:16 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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Makes me wonder if obama didn’t start the whole process.


8 posted on 09/01/2009 11:04:05 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Sure seems that since the election of Zero, the world now listens to, and respects, us! (heavy /s)
9 posted on 09/01/2009 11:05:44 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Duggan said a Justice Department official read him notes that Holder used during the conversation.

Expect a small correction to this sentence in the next update: "...a FORMER Justice Department official ..."

10 posted on 09/01/2009 11:05:48 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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How about a warning to Scotland NOT TO RELEASE THE POS TERRORIST, PERIOD!?!


11 posted on 09/01/2009 11:06:39 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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I posted elswhere that a staffer in Jay Rockefeller’s office told me a day after the terrorist’s release that the Senate Intelligence Committee had gotten a heads-up on the release beforehand and had no problem with it.

The staffer also then went on to say “what’s this got to do with the United States of America anyway”.

That is when I lost it and told him most of those on board were Americans!

He hung up on me.


12 posted on 09/01/2009 11:06:41 AM PDT by HD1200
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When will this nightmare end? This admins. — I can’t even bear to say the name of the one — is ruin for this country to the core.

How can we survive another 3 years of this disaster?


13 posted on 09/01/2009 11:07:20 AM PDT by parisa
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Holder under the bus ... oh, I do hope so.

14 posted on 09/01/2009 11:07:48 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The Obama administration could not be more clear about their alegiances.

Here is a clue: it ain’t with the US.

It will be interesting to see what other “Rangels” come out of this.


15 posted on 09/01/2009 11:08:25 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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General Eric Holder warned his Scottish counterpart in June that the man convicted of blowing US-bound Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky could get a hero’s welcome

So it was like this? "I'm warning you he'll get a hero's welcome so how can we tone this down a bit?"

16 posted on 09/01/2009 11:08:46 AM PDT by what's up
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This smells like buttcovering to me. Did Zero or Eric (put the CIA in prison) Holder do a dam thing to try to stop this???
17 posted on 09/01/2009 11:10:32 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Martha's Vineyard is great! Hey, honey, let's take a drive . . . .)
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The Victims of Pan Am 103 Group must be livid with all they have gone through.


18 posted on 09/01/2009 11:12:59 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I knew Obama’s prints was all over this!


19 posted on 09/01/2009 11:18:24 AM PDT by classified
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To: cajungirl

Those DVD’s were supposed to butter Brown up!

Didn’t work. ;o)


20 posted on 09/01/2009 11:23:04 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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