Obama appointed Gitmo radicals to DOJ

Obama appointed Gitmo radicals to DOJ

Anyone surprised?

The Department of Defense briefed the president this morning....

They told President Obama that 2 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq.

To everyone’s surprise, he collapsed onto his desk, head in his hands,
visibly shaken, almost in tears.

Finally, he composed himself and asked, “Just how many is a brazilian?”

Uh oh!

“Eric Holder has finally admitted that the “post-partisan” candidate for “change” has appointed nine separate ultra-liberal, America-hating Gitmo terror-apologists to sensitive posts within the Department of Justice...”

I doubt Eric Holder has admitted this.

Yes. I didn’t expect Obama to be quite this bad. Every day, it seems, there is a new nightmare to which we have to adjust our expectations of the president.

f’n criminal

Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more.

The list, ping

Purely coincidental, I’m sure. Obama didn’t know.

Thats rediculous. If he thought a brazilian soldiers were killed he’d be doing the Snoopy dance on his desk.

For anyone who does not believe our usurper in chief is not the next terrorist attack..... it’s time to open your eyes.

Where’s the outrage? I’ve been watching this play out for months. It is a well known fact that the firm in which Holder is a partner has represented 17 Yemeni detainees on a pro bono basis. I’ve been shocked at how little buzz there’s been in both the MSM and conservative websites. Michelle Malkin’s been one of the few covering this extensively. These are truly dangerous people at DOJ. For instance, let’s look at Jennifer Daskal:

A BLEEDING HEART TO ‘FIGHT’ TERROR

By MEGHAN CLYNE

Last Updated: 1:02 AM, July 17, 2009

Posted: 1:00 AM, July 17, 2009

IF you were hiring a lawyer to help pro tect Americans from terrorists, you likely wouldn’t choose a left-wing ac tivist who’s been a champion of the killers held at Guantanamo Bay.

Then again, you’re not President Obama. His Justice Department has raised eyebrows by tapping Jennifer Daskal, formerly “senior counterterrorism counsel” at Human Rights Watch, to work as counsel in its National Security Division and to serve on a task force deciding the future of Guantanamo and its detainees.

A former public defender, Daskal has no prosecutorial experience — let alone a background in national security. So how did she land an important job at Justice — one of only four political appointments at the National Security Division?

“Even when selecting political appointees, the administration must place qualifications above political views, especially in an office as important as the National Security Division,” says Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.

Others note that if Daskal’s Human Rights Watch activism counted as lobbying, the hire would be a direct conflict of interest: She’s now working for the government on the same policies she was recently paid to shape from the outside.

As a lawyer for the advocacy group, Daskal never missed a chance to give Gitmo detainees the benefit of the doubt while assuming the worst about US government intentions. She has called for a “truth commission” to investigate Bush anti-terror policies, and was even unhappy with Team Obama before joining it.

In February, Justice asserted the state-secrets privilege to avoid disclosing details of the CIA’s interrogation program; Daskal called it “a huge disappointment . . . inconsistent with the commitment to transparency and openness promised by the new administration.”

Back when five Gitmo terrorists, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, announced their intention to confess, Daskal refused to accept their guilt: “In light of the men’s severe mistreatment, the judge should require a full and thorough factual inquiry to determine whether or not these pleas are voluntary.”

Maybe she didn’t hear the outburst from one of the five at the end of his hearing: “I hope the jihad will continue and strike the heart of America with all kinds of weapons of mass destruction.”

Daskal thinks America is guilty of torture — but she has an odd understanding of it. In a 54-page report on Gitmo detainees’ allegedly deteriorating mental health, she laments how one detainee, “a self-styled poet,” “found it was nearly impossible to write poetry anymore because the prison guards would only allow him to keep a pen or pencil in his cell for short periods of time.” Quick, call the Red Cross!

Then there’s the attention Daskal lavished on Canadian-born Omar Khadr, a detainee she says is being denied “his rights as a child.” (Human Rights Watch has urged Defense Secretary Bob Gates to transfer Khadr to courts where he’d be treated as a juvenile.)

He’s an adult now, but Khadr was 15 when apprehended on an Afghan battlefield — where, US troops say, he launched the grenade that killed Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer.

Sgt. Layne Morris, who was wounded by the same grenade, calls claims that Khadr should be treated as a child “laughable.” And he says: “The fact that she took on that young man’s case — and has argued the ridiculous things that she has — and is now appointed to the Justice Department, where she brings in those same thought processes and prejudices — it doesn’t bode well for the security of our country.”

http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_LKigyfMmBAPWGXMBp5Mn3O

When confronted with this information, Obama said, “These are not the people I thought I knew.”