Posted on 09/21/2009 5:38:26 AM PDT by dennisw
A good friend writes:
Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. From the C & B website:
The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantánamo Bay. The Supreme Court will soon review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the Supreme Court case. We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients. On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.
Covington & Burling’s Gitmo bar roster has included some of the most radical detainee advocates; see David Remes, who peeled down to his underwear at a press conference in Yemen to draw attention to his clients’ plight and Marc Falkoff, who published a book of detainee poetry and who, in the book’s intro, compared their heroic struggle to the Jews held in concentration camps and Japanese Americans held in internment camps during WWII. [One of Falkoff's "gentle, thoughtful" young poets--a Kuwaiti "cleared for release" and repatriated in 2005--blew himself up in a truck bomb in Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42 others.]
The fact that Mr. Holder, while Deputy Attorney General, pushed for the release of 16 violent FALN terrorists against the advice of the FBI, the US Attorneys who prosecuted them and the NYPD officers who were maimed by them, suggests that he was perfectly willing to put politics before the national security interests of the country. He is not suited for the job of attorney general, which is central to the issues surrounding the disposition of war on terror detainees.
As nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis
WHY IS THIS NOT AN EGREGIOUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
oh wait, there I go being rasist
This guy needs to go. Right along with Van Jones.
Eric Holder . . . please proceed to “under the bus”. You are done, finished.
signed, The American People
Eric Holder is DANGEROUS to AMERICA.
If we don’t get rid of Holder, nothing will ever be done about ACORN/SEIU, or any other of Obama’s criminal enterprises.
Did the vetting process at the White House fail again? Surely there would have been a question regarding even a remote possibility of a conflict of interest? For the friggin’ Attorney General?
So, where do we go from here, now that Michelle Malkin aired this? Our reps just send back boiler plate letters no matter the topic. Ron Nehring doesn’t reply to the big issues. Michael Steele should have been all over this. What now?
I’m telling ya, these obammy f’s are gonna get a whole lot of us killed.
Steele is a DIABLO (not thick skinned enough to be a RINO) Should have been all over this. Dayumed GOP is “above such things”(McLame school of opposition research)
Nice work Malkin.
It’s getting to the point where obama is probably ready to jump under the bus. I’m wondering if his presidency (so-called) is going to make it to the 2010 elections. It’s starting to look like there was a cover-up on Northwest 253 and Fort Hood connections. How could obama not have known that the CIA interrogated Umar? This was a massive failure on the part of the CIA, DHS and State Department. The heads of all three cabinets need to go.
In this case, the CIA actually did what it was supposed to do. They investigated, reached a decision, and passed that information to the proper entity. It was the State Dept that dropped the ball. The CIA does not get the final decision on who can and cannot enter the US.
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