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The endless hypocrisy of Eric Holder
NY Post ^ | July 15, 2010 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/16/2010 3:17:58 AM PDT by Scanian

Attorney General Eric Holder has developed a bad habit of accusing others of acting in bad faith while doing so himself.

Take the issue of Guantanamo Bay. In Aspen, Colo., last week, Holder accused Congress of playing politics in preventing President Obama from closing the Gitmo detention center -- as Obama had promised to do within a year of his inauguration. But this accusation is disingenuous for a variety of reasons.

Obama campaigned on calls to reverse the Bush administration anti-terrorism protocols, charging that they were either unnecessary or counterproductive. Then, when invested with the responsibility of governance, he reversed himself on almost all of them -- tribunals, renditions, Iraq, the Patriot Act, targeted airborne assassinations and Guantanamo Bay. Holder himself once supported the detention of terrorists without regard for the Geneva Conventions. What made him so radically change his views?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: badfaith; congress; executiveorder; gitmoclosing

1 posted on 07/16/2010 3:18:01 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Holder was instrumental in gaining the release of his law firm’s clients from Guantanamo. He is simply waiting on the remainder of the detainees to hire the services of Covington & Burling.


2 posted on 07/16/2010 3:25:22 AM PDT by Hoodat (.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: Scanian

Eric Holder is not hypocritical.

He and the DOJ hate whites, Jews, Christians,
native borne Americans, the US Constitution,
and the rule of Law.


3 posted on 07/16/2010 3:37:37 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: Scanian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN67KJdd6Mw
4 posted on 07/16/2010 3:41:53 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Scanian
"Attorney General Eric Holder has developed a bad habit of accusing others of acting in bad faith while doing so himself."

That makes him the penultimate Democrat. Can you expect him to do otherwise?

5 posted on 07/16/2010 3:43:54 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: Scanian
Life of Brian

Incompetent Official 1

Life of Brian

Incompetent Official 2

6 posted on 07/16/2010 4:05:10 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Diogenesis
Eric Holder, the guy that fried the kids in Waco Texas. Pumped the house full of poison and lit it up? Those kids were white. No doubt he enjoyed that.
7 posted on 07/16/2010 4:16:23 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Scanian

Make him resign and demand an Independent Council investigate all of the charges against him.

LLS


8 posted on 07/16/2010 4:34:19 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: Scanian

Ping


9 posted on 07/16/2010 5:24:00 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Scanian

bump


10 posted on 07/16/2010 5:39:20 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (Mike/Chris Wallace: Did you give in? Palin: "HELL NO!" 109 days til the midterms, if they're held..)
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To: Scanian

Everyone picked by obama was picked because they have a common mindset with obama.

Black revolutionary marxists of a feather hang together.


11 posted on 07/16/2010 5:43:11 AM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: Scanian

A person who says he is going to decide if there is going to be equal protection of the laws does not belong in the Justice Department.


12 posted on 07/16/2010 6:11:22 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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