Posted on 04/06/2011 2:32:00 PM PDT by Starman417
I never thought I'd say it, but I miss Janet Reno. I never thought I'd ever again see an Attorney General of such incompetence, yet here we are.
In what CNN calls "A long line of Obama shifts" Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheik Mohammaed would be tried in a military tribunal instead of a civilian court. The poor man whined about Congress interfering and forcing him to try KSM in the military rather than the civilian system. He made it clear that he believes he knows better than Congress what to do with KSM:
Expressing his disappointment in no uncertain terms, the attorney general said that as a native New Yorker, he knows as well as anyone the federal court's capacity to try the suspects. He added that he's intimately familiar with the cases, much more so than congressional members -- or the public -- who opposed allowing the cases to be held in the United States."Do I know better than them? Yes. I respect their ability to disagree but they should respect that this is an executive branch function, a unique executive branch function," Holder said in a press conference.
Some of us doubt that more than a little.
First, there's the cost of a civilian trial. Trying KSM in New York City in a civilian court is estimated to cost at least a billion dollars and take five years. It is no surprise that the wealthy Holder would have little regard for the burden of expense he would rest upon the country. This was to have been an ego trip for Holder at our cost.
Then there's issue of Obama and Holder predetermining the outcome. Holder came right out and said that if somehow KSM was found innocent he would still not be freed.
Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged on Wednesday a previously unspoken proviso to the controversial decision to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators in a federal court in New York: even if the defendants are somehow acquitted, they will still stay behind bars.
Obama played Carnac to Holder's Ed McMahon and divined the outcome of the KSM trial:
Obama said that those offended by the legal privileges given to KSM won’t find it “offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him.”
Heck, if the outcome is already determined, why have the trial?
If KSM was found innocent and ordered freed by a judge, Holder said that he'd then circumvent the law of the land
“Under the regime we are contemplating … the ability to detain under laws of war, we would retain that ability,” Mr. Holder added, meaning anyone freed by the courts could simply be returned as an enemy combatant to indefinite military detention.
In Bagram. Like in a military tribunal.
So Obama and Holder want to utilize the civilian judicial system unless they lose and then they'll ignore the judiciary in favor of their own playground rules.
Now if that doesn't inspire confidence in the US Judicial system, nothing does.
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I'll pass.
A saner country would try him for sedition against its citizens.
Goes along with the worst occupant of the Oval Office.
IMHO, HOLDER should be a detainee at Gitmo. He’s got it in for America worse than any 10 muzzie terrorists.
As does his boss the office puppet.
Holder has never been more than a pimp
I lost confidence years ago.
The legislative branch can pass a bill, and some liberal legislating from the bench simply makes a vague statement about the un- Constitutionality of it and that's the end of it.
Same with Jesse Jackson.
More and more, I’m getting ticked off at the legislative branch for shirking their responsibilities and punting everything to the judges — who rarely side for the right, it seems — and then crying, boo hoo, the judge said so, I’m helpless.
You’re not helpless, you’re a spineless wimp calculating how often you can punt before losing votes.
You wouldn't say that if you were one of "his people"
Exactly.
Thanks for your perspective (no sarcasm). You are right.
Janet Reno was primarily just plain stupid. Dumb as a box of rocks. I remember her being asked simple questions by a reporter, and seeing the dumbfounded look on her face made me sure I wouldn’t hire her for the mail room.
Holder is more of a whining leftist weenie. He’s not stupid, he’s just a small political mind, when the job requires a deep and broad non-partisan thinker.
It's cumulative. Standing by and doing nothing more than a hand slap when black racist thugs harass and threaten voters at a polling place in Philadelphia is pretty high up on the list of seditious items. So is refusing to defend a duly enacted law. So is using the derisive term "my people" to defend the actions of racists thugs against white people.
I could continue, but hopefully you get the point.
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