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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That was then , this is now. Then we as a Government, operated more or less Under the Constitution. Including its system of checks and balances.
That all changed November4, 2008. Aided and abetted by the Ministry of Misinformation, a/k/a liars and traitors, a/k/a the main stream media, the traitors who live in the United States put into political office the biggest bunch of American hating traitors that the world has ever known.
Thus, Holder and obama can do as they damn well please. Who is going to stop them? Thus far, no one has.
All Obama has to do is tell Gates to turn them over. Of course, he would then have to personally take the responsibility, something which he is loathe to do.
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Sure he does, legal authority flows from Da One
Either that or they’ve been injected with an RFID tag or some other type of nanotechnology tracking device! Just kidding:)
This is hugh!
Maybe.
That is it in a nutshell. You’re correct but if these 9/11 terrorists succeed in getting even more ‘lawyered up’ any judge has to throw the case out because they were not read their miranda rights. I have heard horrific stories of the terrorists crying torture and abuse (while they had it made in Gitmo even with issued prayer rugs and respect) from the ACLU’s mouth to Obama’s big ears.
It is definitely on Obama no matter what and sadly I really don’t think Obama cares about anything but putting Bush/Cheney/CIA on trial as Obama himself wants this more than the safety of this country.
Either that or it’d be grounds for an appeal against conviction (and he will be convicted, BHO said so).
SIX CRITICAL REASONS NOT TO TRY JIHAD TERRORISTS IN AMERICAN COURTS
Remember a high ranking military official months ago when Obama first ordered the break up of their military courts and Gitmo, saying
NO,SIR.
Since when has lacking legal authority for anything stopped the left?
Does Obama have the authority to force the resignation or to fire Robert Gates? If he does, he will simply fire Gates and replace him with another lackey who will do whatever the zero tells him, legal, illegal, or unconstitutional.
Bottom line: This was/is Obama’s decision, not Holder’s.
It is BIG! because it means OBOZO CAN”T DENY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS TRUE ASSAULT ON OUR AMERICA!!! It is a Travesty of Justice and makes a Mockery of Our Freedoms when Terrorists caught in the Battlefield are given kid gloves treatment and all of the Freedoms we work so hard to have for Our Families! Obama truly Hates AMERICA!! Read His History, Read his Quotations! Lokk at all of his Terrorist Friends, be they William Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Reverend Wright, Castro, Hugo Chavez ad infinitum..
Isn't this going against the very thing Obama and Holder are seemingly trying to do? They preach the liberal mantra.. Being fair, give justice to the poor, poor crybaby tortured by Bush; terrorists?
If they are GUARANTEEING the terrorists convictions BEFORE the trial THIS ALONE could throw the trial. HOW and WHO IN THE HELL do they think they are as attorneys muchless CIC and AG to call a plea before a trial had begun?
Here's a question: Lacking an application for some kind of intercession can the USSC intervene on it's own to stop this?
Yes, but there has been denials that Obama ordered it.
Score one for Ashcroft.
Whack. Rightly so.
10/4.
It is all a farce. A “comedy” of Nazism to destroy our Constitution, our Liberty, our Freedom and our Nation.
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