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On bombing suspect, tough questions for Eric Holder
Washington Examiner ^ | 1-22-2010 | Byron York

Posted on 01/21/2010 8:58:49 PM PST by smoothsailing

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1 posted on 01/21/2010 8:58:49 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Eric Holder wants to make sure that his old firm and other cronies will make a fortune representing these terrorists..it is business to them. With out money.
This perp has a rich father..tell him to pay.


2 posted on 01/21/2010 9:03:07 PM PST by Oldexpat
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If I am not mistaken, before Holder was AG he was partners with the law firm that works bro bono for the prisoners at Guantanimo Bay. Therefore he has a soft side for them I feel. And we all know he does nothing without Obies oK.
3 posted on 01/21/2010 9:13:03 PM PST by ColdOne (:^))
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To: maggief; hoosiermama; Liz; STARWISE; SE Mom; Oldexpat

Here’s more from Byron York - just posted.


4 posted on 01/21/2010 9:16:25 PM PST by onyx
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To: smoothsailing

I’ll bet the Senators won’t get an answer from Holder. He’ll come up with something similar about privileged information he cited in the Black Panther fiasco.


5 posted on 01/21/2010 9:36:51 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: smoothsailing

So that his former Law Firm can make Milions from US defending this scum.

or

Holder is anti-American like his boss Obummer.


6 posted on 01/21/2010 9:41:04 PM PST by ncfool (The new USSA - United Socialst States of AmeriKa. Welcome to Obummers world.)
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“Eric Holder wants to make sure that his old firm and other cronies will make a fortune representing these terrorists..it is business to them. With out money.”

http://njteapartycoalition.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-not-try-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-in.html

Certainly, not everyone has done a 180 on this. Attorney General Holder was never a supporter of military tribunals. As he said, “after 8 years of delay”, we are finally moving forward”. It is true. Very few military tribunals were ever carried out due to leftist attorneys’ attempts to derail the proceedings with legal challenges. Many of these attorneys are in the Obama Justice Department today – including Eric Holder, a former partner in Covington & Burling LLP. Covington and Burling represented at least 18 Guantanamo detainees, donating over 3,000 FREE hours of legal service, making Holder’s claim of “8 years of delay” even more incredible.

Countless lawsuits delayed the military trials. These same delays, created by law firms like Covington and Burling, are the Obama administration’s justification for holding civilian trials.

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How close are Togo West and Holder?

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Administration Gets a High-Level ‘Aggie’
Washington Post - Thursday, November 15, 2001
Author: Judy Sarasohn

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Jonathan D. Blake, chairman of Covington ‘s management committee, said the firm signed up (Frank) Hunger because of “his trial experience, his DOJ background, his legislative savvy and the fact we can have some fun together. We think he’s a good guy.”

For his part, Hunger said he was attracted to the firm because of the opportunity to help map strategy for clients and litigation and to manage cases. He noted that a number of his friends are at the firm, including former deputy attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and former Army secretary Togo West Jr.


7 posted on 01/21/2010 9:44:28 PM PST by maggief
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Good, maggief, thanks for bringing that here.
And now we have WH confirmation that Holder was the culprit.


8 posted on 01/21/2010 9:49:02 PM PST by onyx
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Wonder if he has an off shore account that money is being put into.

Liz are there any signs of money laundering here?


9 posted on 01/21/2010 9:52:27 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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Indeed. Several “interests” in Cayman Islands, Here;s one:

Covington & Burling LLP | Biographies | Meera ...Covington & Burling LLP 265 Strand London WC2R 1BH Tel ... onshore and offshore jurisdictions including the UK, Jersey, Guernsey, Cayman Islands ...

www.cov.com/mshah ·


10 posted on 01/21/2010 9:58:42 PM PST by onyx
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Here's a little tidbit on the Hasan murders, West co-led an investigation team.

Former Army Secretary Togo D. West Jr., who co-led a Pentagon review of the shooting, dismissed concerns that Maj. Hasan's religion was a factor in performance reviews during his career as an Army medical counselor.

When asked whether the immediate problem at Fort Hood, Texas, was Islamist radicalization, Mr. West declined to single out Islamists. "Our concern is not with the religion," he told reporters at the Pentagon. "It is with the potential effect on our soldiers' ability to do their job."

Mr. West said "radicalization of any sort" is the issue and that "our concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations."

Muslim question persists in Army shooting--Signs missed at Fort Hood

11 posted on 01/21/2010 10:00:35 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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Thank you, jazusamo. Togo’s report was a complete sham.
Holder’s DOJ must be dismantled.


12 posted on 01/21/2010 10:09:56 PM PST by onyx
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The need to recuse themselves from participating. This TOG0 guy is a fraud. We paid him and Obummer wrote his report.

Where is the MSM on this issue. this a Treason when you read TOGO’s report on Hassan.

Treason by Holder, Obummer and TOGO.


13 posted on 01/21/2010 10:17:28 PM PST by ncfool (The new USSA - United Socialst States of AmeriKa. Welcome to Obummers world.)
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Yes it was a complete sham.

Holder’s DOJ is also a sham. He and his political heads do whatever he feels like or is told to and the law be damned. He is truly scary in the fact that the Dems in Congress and Zer0 back him up.


14 posted on 01/21/2010 10:20:10 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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Clarice Feldman at American Thinker opines:

I don't see how Holder can avoid being severely damaged in this inquiry. Either he had no protocol in place in which case he was an exceedingly negligent executive or he did have one and it permitted the terrorist to be treated as a criminal, depriving us of potentially important national security information for some lamebrained notion of international justice, a notion not contained in any treaty nor warranted by common sense..

15 posted on 01/21/2010 10:20:33 PM PST by smoothsailing
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I would ask holder to what country does his allegiance belong because its obviously not to the USA.That goes for his boss as well.
16 posted on 01/21/2010 10:25:06 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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Thanks for posting, maggief.

Beyond the money to be made by his law firm, there’s Holder’s anti-American, pro-terrorist record going back at least as far as the FALN pardons in the Clinton years.


17 posted on 01/21/2010 10:25:27 PM PST by smoothsailing
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Thanks, Smooth...As usual Clarice is dead on the money and I have to believe he has a protocol to treat them as criminals.


18 posted on 01/21/2010 10:29:20 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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Yes, Holder and his DOJ have politicized terrorism and put our nation’s security at an unimaginable high risk. Who’s going to prosecute the DOJ? Surely not the democrat controlled senate. Holder has to be removed from office along with all his minions.


19 posted on 01/21/2010 10:29:23 PM PST by onyx
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Why refer to the enemy as an “enemy combatant” when he is in reality the enemy? During WWII did we refer to Nazis and the Japanese as “enemy combatants?” No. They WERE the enemy.

Today, both the Japanese and the Germans are our friends and allies. Why? Because we crushed them. We killed maimed and multilated everything in their midst until they unconditionally surrendered. But, somehow, today, muslims who will kill us are exempt from this status. Until we recognize them as an enemy, they will continue to kill us at will.

Many ask why are we refusing to accept that muslims are our enemy? Some argue Islam is a religion of peace. If you accept that premise, then you are as good as dead.


20 posted on 01/21/2010 10:44:15 PM PST by takenoprisoner (Freedom Watch: fight for freedom with everything you have.)
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