Posted on 11/19/2009 1:44:22 PM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet
Attorney General Eric Holder lacks authority to make a decision on moving terror detainees to civilian courts for trial, one of his predecessors said Wednesday.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who held his position during the Bush administration from 2001-2005, said that Holder lacked the legal standing to decide to move alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other terror detainees to federal courts in New York City to stand trial. >p>
"The attorney general doesn't have the authority to mandate that the secretary of Defense turn somebody over to him and yield jurisdiction so that something that would have been done in a military setting is done in a civilian setting," Ashcroft told the Christ Stigall show on KCMO radio this morning.
"I believe that this is a decision that comes as a result of the president making the decision, or if not making the decision, allowing an attorney general to do what he normally doesn't have the authority to do, and could only do at the acquiescence of the president," the former AG and former Missouri senator argued.
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Two choices:
1—Obama is lying when he says he did not sign off on this
Say it ain’t so! The Messiah lies?
2—Holder is illegally trying to exercise authority over of the military as if he was CIC, bypassing the normal line of succession IF the President was incapacitated. (Hear that Biden? Holder took the job you wanted)
Technically it could be called an attempted coup. Sounds like treason to me. But he said we are ignorant. I say we put him in a Tribunal and see what the military says.
Well, they did discover life on Mars, I wonder if it or they will receive a jury notice ?
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JUST watch this will be next ping me to it when it happens.Obama will set the 9/11 terrorists free in Pakistan and our troops will still be sitting ducks because he won’t decide and no one will say a word about impeachment.
Obama could go on TV and admit he is a freaking terrorist and this would be the headline the MSM reported...
Obama speaks excellent Arabic and makes peace en route to his date night.
This is bIG..How can we the people stop this trial ? There must be some legal way .
Is this trial happens it will disgrace this nation to no end. The president is PURPOSELY allowing a hate Bush/Hate America circus to happen. He is a piece of shit traitor .This PROVES it . Ideas? any legal people on here.?
Obama did slide in some PC law didn't he? It will probably applies to the 9/11 terrorists and The Fort Hood terrorist!
More pieces of this puzzle.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388642/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392288/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388642/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392288/posts
Thanks for the ping!
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