Posted on 02/19/2010 7:09:02 PM PST by Whenifhow
Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.
Holder's admission comes in the form of an answer to a question posed last November by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley. Noting that one Obama appointee, Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, formerly represented Osama bin Laden's driver, and another appointee, Jennifer Daskal, previously advocated for detainees at Human Rights Watch, Grassley asked Holder to give the Senate Judiciary Committee "the names of political appointees in your department who represent detainees or who work for organizations advocating on their behalf…the cases or projects that these appointees work with respect to detainee prior to joining the Justice Department…and the cases or projects relating to detainees that have worked on since joining the Justice Department."
In his response, Holder has given Grassley almost nothing. He says nine Obama political appointees at the Justice Department have advocated on behalf of detainees, but did not identify any of the nine other than the two, Katyal and Daskal, whose names Grassley already knew. "To the best of our knowledge," Holder writes,
during their employment prior to joining the government, only five of the lawyers who serve as political appointees in those components represented detainees, and four others either contributed to amicus briefs in detainee-related cases or were otherwise involved in advocacy on behalf of detainees.
Holder says other Obama appointees, like Holder himself, came from law firms which represented detainees but did no work on behalf of the terrorist prisoners. But other than Katyal and Daskal, Holder does not reveal any names of any Obama appointees, nor does he mention the cases they worked on.
And what are they recused from, anyway? Very little. Holder writes that Katyal has not worked on any Guantanamo detainee matters but has participated in litigation involving detainees who continue to be detained at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan and in litigation involving [Ali Saleh Kahlah] al-Marri, who was detained on U.S. soil." As for Daskal, "she has generally worked on policy issues related to detainees," Holder writes. "Her detainee-related work has been fully consistent with advice she received from career department officials regarding her obligations."
As for everyone else, Holder lists no names and no cases, but in a paragraph filled with modifiers, he makes it clear that all the lawyers who had advocated for detainees are free to work on general detainee matters.
The senior Department officials referenced above, like other political appointees who are similarly situated, have recused from particularspecific detainees in which their former firms represent the detainee or another party and from decisions relating specifically to the dispositions of particular detainees represented by their former firms. These recusals pertain to decisions relating to particular matters involving specific parties who are or have been represented by their former law firms within the relevant time period. However, as noted above, these senior officials have been authorized to participate in policy and legal decisions regarding detainee matters, in particular matters regarding specific detainees whom their prior employer did not represent, and in decisions relating to the disposition of such detainees. [emphasis added] matters regarding
Finally, it is possible that there are more than nine political appointees who worked for detainees. Holder tells Grassley that he did not survey the Justice Department as a whole but instead canvassed several large offices within the organization.
Bottom line: Holder revealed no names beyond the two already publicly known. He revealed no cases from which Justice political appointees recused themselves. The letter, which will likely be interpreted on Capitol Hill as a thumb-your-nose statement, is sure to anger Republican senators more than satisfy them
You’ll love this.
Our government is simply not on our side in the Counter-Jihad War.
WASS
Transparency: The Campaign Promise.
Reality: No names revealed of those who *advocated* for terrorist detainees.
Bi-Partisanship: The Campaign Promise.
Reality: Thumb-Your-Nose letters and speaches (”I won”).
What do you expect from the govt hand-picked by the Traitor-in-Chief?
There is only One Visible Public Official more Corrupt than Holder and You’al know WHO that “IS”! This DOJ is Dispicable! but its Nothing! compared to the SLIME HOUSE!!
>Holder admits nine Obama Dept. of Justice officials worked for terrorist detainees
What a horribly misleading title if the following sentence is true.
>Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department.
“represented or advocated” would be include the standard lawyer’s job, even if his client were guilty. Moreover, John Adams legally represented redcoats in the Boston Massacre, yet I see nothing accusing [or implying] him of being traitorous... even given his own stated pleasure in securing acquittals for the accused soldiers.
WHAT?
-PJ
America is rotting from the inside. We must eject these pretenders. They will be the end of our beloved country!
Material (( ping ))
As a matter of fact, Ubanga and his administration hate America as much as the Jihadists do.
/mark
Since the basic qualification for appointment to the Obama Administration is adherence to the Marxist creed, its not surprising that they can’t find anyone who hasn’t actively worked to destroy the U.S. at some point in their career.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455188/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455181/posts
Remember the good old days when we shot Commies instead of electing them?
I do...
If not; then WHY? Why even 'go there'?
Perception not always reality; but no one needs glasses when looking at this Obamanation of Justice; and what seems damn close to a treason if not a treason itself.
We must STOP this madness!
Nation’s First (Semi)-Black President; Nation’s First Terrorist President; Nation’s First Terrorist First “Lady”.
We have to put these polidiots and their handlers in JAIL !
ONLY way the rest of em will get a clue . Seditious SOB’s have got to do hard time or worse at some point. America can NOT endure this crap and survive the repeated attempts to destroy it from within. Our lives, our future, safety, liberty and that of future generations are in real danger from this political gamesmanship this trash plays without fear of accountability for their actions.
They have to pay with their freedom and personal resources when they intentionally and openly do such damage to Americas infrastructure.
My opinion.......pipe dream, rant, whatever............
Stay Safe FP !!
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