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U.S. attorney general: bin Laden operation lawful
Reuters ^

Posted on 05/03/2011 10:04:06 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

U.S. attorney general: bin Laden operation lawful 11:49am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder defended as lawful on Tuesday the U.S. operation to go into Pakistan that resulted in the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the taking of his body.

The acts taken were "lawful, legitimate and appropriate in every way. The people who were responsible for that action, both in the decision making and the effecting of that decision............

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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KEYWORDS: doj; ericholder; holder
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Different set of rules........
1 posted on 05/03/2011 10:04:11 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

SHUT UP HOLDER-you waffling prig~!


2 posted on 05/03/2011 10:06:40 AM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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To: Sub-Driver

SHUT UP HOLDER-you waffling prig~!


3 posted on 05/03/2011 10:06:55 AM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I don’t get it. Holder insists that terrorists/enemy combatants, or whatever the politically correct term for these guys is, are entitled to full constitutional rights, including trial in a civilian court. Why is Holder not outraged that we killed rather than capturing and taking Bin Laden alive????


4 posted on 05/03/2011 10:07:47 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Sub-Driver
Well if AG Holder makes a statement, that's good enough for me. /sarc

This isn't the first time he has addressed whether something is lawful or constitutional. No division of powers in the branches anymore.
5 posted on 05/03/2011 10:07:47 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Sub-Driver

If you can’t trust Eric Holder, who can you trust?


6 posted on 05/03/2011 10:08:11 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (We would all be better off if the federal government just decided to end itself.)
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To: Sub-Driver

yet according to this POS the intelligence gathering needed to find out how to off obl was not lawful....


7 posted on 05/03/2011 10:08:22 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Uh oh!

Holder has just blown the cover of Seal Team 6!

Since he said that ‘The acts taken were “lawful, legitimate and appropriate in every way...” ‘, obviously these were done by members of the New Black Panther Party!

/sarc


8 posted on 05/03/2011 10:09:59 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less." M Rosen)
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To: Sub-Driver

How ridiculous for Holder to even make a statement. Our national sovereignty is our right, specifically when our sovereignty is challenged.

That’s why nations have m i l i t a r i e s.

It’s not a federal job program.


9 posted on 05/03/2011 10:12:27 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’d probably be accused of bias if I said his decision was colored by outside events.


10 posted on 05/03/2011 10:13:19 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Sub-Driver
Using the old tried and true grain of salt approach with this idiot. If he doesn't think Black Panthers intimidating voters is illegal, you have to wonder what he thinks is.
11 posted on 05/03/2011 10:13:42 AM PDT by cashless (Unlike Obama and his supporters, I'd rather be a TEA BAGGER than a TEA BAGGEE.)
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Thanks for the clearance, you putz.

At least we know Binny wasnt a member of the NBP.


12 posted on 05/03/2011 10:16:39 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I have seen a lot of complaints from soldiers about the New Rules of Engagment and how it has caused many deaths.

So did the CIA follow those rules of engagment when giving the order?


13 posted on 05/03/2011 10:18:06 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: BwanaNdege

Thank you for the laugh....after reading the comments from that brain donor Rashard Mendenhall, I needed it.


14 posted on 05/03/2011 10:21:55 AM PDT by Jobu Needs A Refill (Piper Palin 2036.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Why is Holder not outraged that we killed rather than capturing and taking Bin Laden alive????

'Cuz there's a Donk in the White House; THAT'S why.

15 posted on 05/03/2011 10:25:04 AM PDT by HKMk23 (A free man unarmed is just a slave on borrowed time.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Sine you’re trying to be a smart @ss: Shoot at sheriff trying to bring you and see what happens


16 posted on 05/03/2011 10:27:24 AM PDT by mewykwistmas (Lost your job as a birther under Obama? Become a 'deather'! Where's Bin Laden's death certificate?)
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To: Sub-Driver
"I'll take the waterboarding for $200, Alex"

OBL, comments when asked if he wanted to go for the catagory of small arms fire to the head, or the catagory of illegal American torture techniques, during the special Seal episode of Jeapardy.

Holder is such a joke. But that's racist. Hey, if they shot Obama because of his muslem beliefs, isn't that a hate crime?

17 posted on 05/03/2011 10:35:47 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: Sub-Driver

Let’s see. He approves the legality of his bosses actions. Ok, that has me convinced.


18 posted on 05/03/2011 10:39:58 AM PDT by McGruff (When it comes to Obama's birth certificate. Trust, but verify.)
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To: Jobu Needs A Refill

“Thank you for the laugh...after reading the comments from that brain donor Rashard Mendenhall, I needed it.”

Yeah, I read those too.

Talk about Rashard shooting himself in the foot!

It will be interesting to see how bin Laden’s death will play out in the mosques of America this Friday.


19 posted on 05/03/2011 10:41:48 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less." M Rosen)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Why is Holder not outraged that we killed rather than capturing and taking Bin Laden alive??

I had the same question.

I don't know what "mewykwistmas" is talking about.

Nothing about this story is consistent with prior Regime policy or practice. Nothing about what Liberals are now saying is consistent with what they were shrieking nearly every day until Obama's immaculation. Nothing about the MSM's response is consistent with prior reporting and bias over the past 40 to 50 years.

Not that I expect consistency or honesty from any of these people; but the degree of hypocrisy has just jumped exponentially in the last 48 hrs.

20 posted on 05/03/2011 10:43:43 AM PDT by PENANCE
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