Lockerbie Release: Eric Holder knew in June

National Review ^ | 09/01 12:22 PM | Kathryn Jean Lopez

[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.

[mowowie]

A girl I went to HS with died on Flight 103.
My hometown named a park after her.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Scots put this forward in exchange for a $27 billion energy deal for BP in Libya. What did the US get ?

[kidd]

What does Obama know and when didn’t he know it?

Did the administration’s reaction consist of speculation about a hero’s welcome or were more concrete consequences conveyed?

[HardStarboard]

Someone ask Holder if he knows how we convicted al-Megrehi of the PanAm Flight 103 bombing?

It was by superb detective work by the CIA - the same CIA Holder and Obama are now hell bent to destroy.

[Major Matt Mason]

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

Not just Obama, but the DemocRat Party. Hence my tagline below.

[Freddd]

Absolutely NOT. It is a clear reminder he will let terrorists go...while persecuting Whites and Christians.

[wmileo]

"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?"

Don't sell Holder short.

He had a plan where we would offer an exchange for the terrorist and hand over Dick Cheney to the Libyans instead.

Everything was set until both the U.S. Marshals and FBI told the Generalissimo he would have to take Cheney in himself.

Holder is not exactly a hands on Attorney General. IMHO, he will be needing both of those hands to cover his a$$.

[dead]

Holder's such a douchebag crook, he only warned him to secure his own payoff.

If the FALN terrorists and Marc Rich had to pay off Holder, there's no reason this Libyan should get a freebie.

[wmileo]

Just my two red cents:

If OBAMA thought that humbling the United States of America to our so called Allies in Europe this past Spring was going to foster their cooperation in the Struggle against the Islamofacists, he is the biggest Village Idiot Kenya has ever produced(with the exception of his Father).

[nitzy]

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

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

[Joe 6-pack]

"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..."

I'm guessing al-Megrahi only had three months to live in June, too....

[InterceptPoint]

Vincent Foster doesn’t think that is very funny. LOL.

[BerryDingle]

The media keeps bringing this back up as if we are too stupid to know what actually happened. Sort of like the “Keg Kennedy is still dead” articles.

[oneamericanvoice]

O didn’t try to stop it. Heck, he probably bought the flowers for the adoring paid supporters to hold.

[drypowder]

Obamathug is such the control freak narcissist that it is indicative that he not only knew but had to approve. I surmise that Ronald Reagen would have had the plane blown out of the sky before it reached Libya.

[Right Wing Assault]

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

Probably wasn't even born when it happened.

[GSWarrior]

I don't think Scotland needed or likely sought Obama's approval or blessing. Other than strongly express disapproval, what exactly could Obama have done to stop the release?

Everything bad that happens is not Obama's fault.

[eeevil conservative]

I will never shop at a BP again..... I will however muster up enough saliva to spit at them each time I pass one....

[eeevil conservative]

Freeing Terrorists for Oil!

BRILLIANT! That’ll keep us safe.....

[libstripper]

Just call him what he is, the Illegal Alien.