Krauthammer: "Insane" To Give Terrorist A Lawyer (Video)

How much could we have learned from Christmas Day Jihadist? Do Eric Holder and Barack Obama really want to protect terrorists "rights" more so than American Security?

Attorney General Holder speaks to 9/11 Families (Video)

Following a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing in which Attorney General Holder defended his decision to try 5 suspected 9/11 terrorists in federal court in New York, he spoke briefly with a family member of a victim who had attended the hearing.

Lindsey Graham Destroys Eric Holder On 9/11 Terror Trials (Video)

AG Holder did not perform too well today when questioned about the 9/11 trials.

Sen. Grassley To Holder: What If KSM Gets Off Like O.J.

It's a good question, actually. And precisely what I am afraid of.

Sister of 9/11 victim blasts decision to try confessed 9/11 mastermind in New York City (Video)

This a poltical travesty!

Ex-CIA chiefs decry Holder interrogation probe in letter to Obama (Video)

Maybe Holder will resign? Maybe Obama will condemn Holder? Maybe the radical communist regime will listen?

If yes? Then great. If not? Have fun with your one term, Mr. President.

Barack Obama HAS NO CLUE about national security!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Terror Interrogations

Didn't Obama say he wanted to move on and let this all go and not worry about the past and move forward or some crap like that?

Oh wait...you mean Obama lied again?

The Washington Post reports:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move.

Holder is poised to name John Durham, a career Justice Department prosecutor from Connecticut, to lead the inquiry, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not complete.

Durham's mandate, the sources added, will be relatively narrow: to look at whether there is enough evidence to launch a full-scale criminal investigation of current and former CIA personnel who may have broken the law in their dealings with detainees. Many of the harshest CIA interrogation techniques have not been employed against terrorism suspects for four years or more.

The attorney general selected Durham in part because the longtime prosecutor is familiar with the CIA and its past interrogation regime. For nearly two years, Durham has been probing whether laws against obstruction or false statements were violated in connection with the 2005 destruction of CIA videotapes. The tapes allegedly depicted brutal scenes including waterboarding of some of the agency's high value detainees. That inquiry is proceeding before a grand jury in Alexandria, although lawyers following the investigation have cast doubt on whether it will result in any criminal charges.

Word of Holder's decision comes on the same day that the Obama administration will issue a 2004 report by the then-CIA Inspector General. Among other things, the IG questioned the effectiveness of harsh interrogation tactics that included simulated drowning and wall slamming. A federal judge in New York forced the administration to release the secret report after a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union.

A separate internal Justice Department ethics report on the professionalism of lawyers who blessed the questioning techniques continues to undergo declassification review and is not likely to be released imminently. The New York Times reported Monday that the ethics report recommended that Holder take another look at several episodes of alleged detainee abuse that previously had been declined for prosecution during the Bush years, bolstering his decision to appoint a prosecutor.

Leaders at the Justice Department and the intelligence community have clashed this year over the release of sensitive interrogation memos, military photographs of detainee abuse and how to handle the cases of more than 200 detainees at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Holder's decision could complicate the Justice Department's relationship with the White House, where President Obama has repeatedly expressed a desire to move forward from the national security controversies of the Bush administration. Deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton told reporters Monday that the president had complete faith in Holder and that the decision whether to launch an investigation was the attorney general's sole prerogative.

"The White House supports the attorney general making the decisions on who gets prosecuted and investigated," Burton said.

GOP Rep. Grills Eric Holder: "Hate Crime For Preachers Who Preach Against Gays?" (Video)

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) discusses Hate Crime laws with Attorney General Eric Holder.



The law in question is 18 U.S.C. 2 which states:

(a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids,
abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is
punishable as a principal.

(b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly
performed by him or another would be an offense against the United
States, is punishable as a principal.

The key legal phrase Gohmert argues is "induces". A preacher's sermon could be considered as an "inducement" of a crime.

Ambassador John Bolton Rips Attorney General Holder May Help Spanish Judge Try Bush Officials! (Video)

Eric Holder is a communist pig like his boss. How the hell can Holder justify assisting a rogue Spanish court?

It's his responsibility to protect the Constitution! It's one thing, albeit wrong, to prosecute Bush officials in America but having the Attorney General of The United States assisting a Foreign Court to prosecute Americans including a former President and Vice President?

Banana Public indeed!

Attorney General Holder Questioned About Interrogation Memos (Video)

"It is my duty to enforce the law," says AG Eric Holder.

The Man who pardoned Marc Rich and the FLAN terrorists testified today on interrogation investigations.

Holder, like his boss, is radical, arrogant, dishonest and dangerous for America and National Security.

This guy never should have been confirmed as Attorney General. The backlash from the "torture" memos will have a deep, far-reaching impact greater than the Naive One-In-Chief can possibly comprehend.

Obama: Holder Will Decide Whether To Prosecute Bush Officials (Video)

Didn't he say a few months ago that he wouldn't prosecute Bush officials? Oh that's right, he's a liar.

Fox News reported today that MoveOn.org is putting together a petition to send to Holder asking for prosecution.

President Obama likes to claim the proverbial buck stops with him.

However, how can the buck stop with him if he keeps passing the buck onto members of his administration?

In his short Presidency, he has done this several times with various administration officials and members of Congress (i.e. allowing Nancy Pelosi to write the "stimulus" bill).

He continues to vote "present" on sensitive issues and it's getting really old.

Take a stand, Mr. President, please. Show some leadership for a "change".



Keep in mind, yesterday the CIA released the names of Gitmo detainees who have been waterboarded.

I guess we saw this coming for months, but now it's official.

Remember, Eric "Pro-Terror" Holder said terrorists could soon be your neighbor.

What purpose does any of this serve anyone?

The only people it helps are the terrorists! Whether or not Bush Administration officials are prosecuted, the damage is already done!

Our national security has been breached by our own President. Our counter-terror tactics have been released for the whole world to see.

Thanks a lot, Barry! You moron!

Once again, Obama proves he is arrogant, radical, dishonest and dangerous for America.

AG Holder: Some Guantanamo prisoners could be released in U.S.

No surprise here! Just lie down, America, put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye!

This is same Eric Holder who called us a "nation of cowards" on race.

The same Eric Holder who is Pro-Terrorism, Anti-American, Pro-Iran, and Pro-Bill Ayers!

Reuters reports:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners could be released into the United States while others could be put on trial in the American court system, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday.

Holder, who was chosen by President Barack Obama to lead the administration's efforts to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba within a year, said the review of what to do with each of the prisoners had begun.

About 240 terrorism suspects, including suspected planners of the September 11 attacks, are being held in the prison. Many have been detained for seven years without charges and some were subjected to interrogation techniques denounced by critics as torture.

The administration faces intense political resistance to the idea of bringing the prisoners to the United States as part of closing the detention camp. The administration seeks to transfer some detainees to Europe or other countries while freeing others.

Holder told reporters at the Justice Department that the administration's review, made on a case-by-case basis, would determine whether the prisoners need to be put on trial or whether they can be released.

"For those who are in that second category, who can be released, there are a variety of options that we have. Among them is the possibility that we could release them into this country," he said.

Holder said it was possible the 17 Chinese Muslims who have been held for years at Guantanamo, and two or three others prisoners, could be freed in the United States.

The 17 members of the Uighur ethic group have been cleared for release but have nonetheless remained at Guantanamo while the United States tries to find a country willing to take them. The U.S. government has said it cannot return them to China because they would face persecution there.

Face persecution in China!? Good! Maybe the Chinese have the balls lack the Obama Administration lacks!

Eric Holder is a pussy!

Obama Gives Holder A Spanking For "Nation of Cowards" Gaffe... Three Weeks Too Late

Barack Obama gave Attorney General Eric Holder a mild spanking yesterday in an interview with the Times.

Last month, Holder called America a "nation of cowards" when dicussing race in our country.

But one question? Why did it take almost 3 weeks to rebuke Mr. Holder?

And what's this crap about "if I had been advising my attorney general"? Isn't that The President's freaking job to supervise his Cabinet?

Is Obama just letting these fools run amok while he's off "saving the world" with The Radical American Communist Experiment (R.A.C.E.)?

This would have been nice to hear... I don't know... maybe the day after Holder's gaffe?

Seriously, who's running this place!?

The New York Times reports:

WASHINGTON — President Obama has chided his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., for describing America as a “nation of cowards” when discussing race, wading into a tumult that flared over Mr. Holder’s indictment of the way this country talks about ethnicity.

“I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language,” Mr. Obama said in a mild rebuke from America’s first black president to its first black attorney general.

Mr. Obama was asked whether he agreed with Mr. Holder. He hesitated for five seconds before responding.

“I’m not somebody who believes that constantly talking about race somehow solves racial tensions,” Mr. Obama said. “I think what solves racial tensions is fixing the economy, putting people to work, making sure that people have health care, ensuring that every kid is learning out there. I think if we do that, then we’ll probably have more fruitful conversations.”

I don't understand that last statement, but then again, I don't really understand anything Obama says these days.

And he hesitated for five seconds and that's the best he could come up with?

Yo! Bama! The question was about race and you answered with a BS economic talking point?

Was the teleprompter broken?

Attorney General Holder On Race: We Are a "Nation of Cowards"

Didn't we just elect a Black President? I thought this was supposed to a new Hopeychangey "post racial" United States.

Didn't The One's Greatest Racial Speech Of All Time end all this?

Maybe Mr. Holder should worry about cleaning up his track record first.

The Politico reports:

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that despite advances, the United States remains “a nation of cowards” on issues involving race.

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards,” Holder said in remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month.

His comments appear on a transcript provided by the Justice Department.

“Even as we fight a war against terrorism; deal with the reality of electing an African-American, for the first time, as the president of the United States; and deal with other significant issues of the day, the need to confront our racial past and to understand our racial present, and to understand the history of African people in this country — that all endures,” the attorney general added.

“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”

B-b-but Attorney General Holder, haven't you heard that some of White America's best friends are black? No, seriously, they even tell pollsters about it!

ABC News polls show there has been sharply increased social interaction between black and white Americans in the past few decades. In June, 79 percent of whites reported having a "fairly close personal friend" who's black, up from 54 percent in 1981. Ninety-two percent of blacks reported having a white friend, up from 69 percent a generation ago.


Similarly, a 2005 poll found that 48 percent of whites and 63 percent of blacks said someone in their family had brought a friend of the other race home for dinner — also far higher than when the data series began in 1973.

Eric Holder's Confirmation Postponed Until Next Week

Controversial Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder will have to wait at least another week to become America's Top Cop. Some Senate Republicans want more time to question Mr. Holder on his involvement in pardoning Marc Rich, FLAN terrorists and members of Bill Ayers' Weather Underground.

From Roll Call:

Ranking member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said that he had convened a meeting of the committee’s Republicans earlier in the day to “try and find a way to move forward” with the Holder nomination but that the Members were unhappy with the amount of time that they had been given to question Holder. Specter made the remarks at a committee hearing where Holder’s nomination was supposed to be voted on.

“There was a unanimous view that there was insufficient time to question Mr. Holder,” Specter said, noting that he was meeting with the nominee late Thursday to further discuss some of his concerns.

Leahy accepted the delay in a professional, mature manner.

AOL's The Political Machine reported:

"I'm extremely disappointed but they have that right, so this historic - historic - nomination is over." (Judiciary Committee Chairman) Leahy then slammed down the gavel and ended the hearing. He and Specter then left in opposite directors.

Poor Sen. Leahy didn't get his way and had a "I'm taking my gavel and going home" moment. The Democrats are supposed to get anything they want now that Obama is officially President! How dare any insignificant Republicans get in the way!

A small victory for Republicans, but it appears terrorist sympathiser Holder will be confirmed.

Eric Holder Is Pro-Terrorism, Anti-American, Pro-Iran, Pro-Bill Ayers Yet Senator Herb Kohl Asks Him If He Could Challenge Obama In Basketball?

“One last question, and this relates to your ability to exercise your responsibilities independently of what the president may or may not like. Uh, he is reported to have considerable skills as a basketball player, and you have indicated to me when we met in my office that you also are a person of considerable skill. In the event, Mr. Holder, that he invites you to the gym for a little one on one, will you promise us and the American people that you will do everything in your power to defeat him as badly as you can?”

--Senator Herb Kohl, owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks at Senate confirmation hearings of controversial Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder



From USA Today:

Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., ends his questions by asking Holder if he'll do everything he can to defeat Obama on the basketball court (the president-elect is a regular player).

Holder, who played high school ball in New York City, says of Obama that "he's 10 years younger than me. He plays a lot more frequently than I do. Having said that, I've got a New York City game. ..."If you give me a little time and a little space to get back in shape, I think I could hang with him."

But beating Obama might not be a great idea, Holder jokes.

Nice, hard hitting question from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Seriously, way to take Holder's controversial record seriously.



What a joke....



For more on Holder's hearings....

Eric Holder's Confirmation Hearing, Water Boarding is Torture, "My Decisions Were Not Always Perfect, I Made Mistakes"

My decisions were not always perfect," Eric Holder said today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I made mistakes. I hope that enough of my decisions were correct to justify the gratifying support I have received from colleagues in law enforcement in recent weeks. But with benefit of hindsight, I can see my errors clearly and I can tell you how I learned from them."

Yes, we remember those mistakes....

When Eric Holder was nominated by Barack Obama in November, we documented his record.

Not only was Holder involved in the pardon of convicted felon and communist sympathiser Marc Rich, but he was also involved in pardons of convicted felons Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans.

Both Rosenberg and Evans were former members of Bill Ayers' Weather Underground. Both were convicted of bombing the US Capitol, weapons and explosives charges and harboring known felons.

And then there's his controversial involvment in the pardon of other terrorists.

From LA Times:

Attorney general nominee Eric H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations, according to interviews and documents...

Holder instructed his staff at Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney to effectively replace the department's original report recommending against any commutations, which had been sent to the White House in 1996, with one that favored clemency for at least half the prisoners, according to these interviews and documents. And after Pardon Attorney Roger Adams resisted, Holder's chief of staff instructed him to draft a neutral "options memo" instead, Adams said. The options memo allowed Clinton to grant the commutations without appearing to go against the Justice Department's wishes, Adams and his predecessor, Margaret Colgate Love, said in their first public comments on the case.

The 16 members of the FALN (the Spanish acronym for Armed Forces of National Liberation) and Los Macheteros had been convicted in Chicago and Hartford variously of bank robbery, possession of explosives and participating in a seditious conspiracy. Overall, the two groups had been linked by the FBI to more than 130 bombings, several armed robberies, six slayings and hundreds of injuries.

So now that we know he is sympathetic to terrorists, his rejection of water boarding should come as no surprise.

And his involvement with Marc Rich displays further lack of judgement, questionable moral principles and general "unconscionable conduct".


NYTimes, via PJ:

"Mr. Holder, the [Congressional] report says, played a major role, steering Mr. Rich’s lawyers toward Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel. Mr. Rich hired Mr. Quinn, whose Washington contacts and ability to lobby the president made the difference, according to the report. It says that Mr. Holder’s support for the pardon and his failure to alert prosecutors of a pending pardon were just as crucial. …

The panel criticized Mr. Holder’s conduct as unconscionable and cited several problems. It cited his admission last year that he had hoped Mr. Quinn would support his becoming attorney general in a Gore administration."

From Pajamas Media:

So to be clear, Holder helped steer the attorney for Rich, a fugitive whose pardon request would likely have been rejected through normal channels due to is status as a fugitive, to the man Holder wanted assistance with in getting his next job. Now there’s a man who knows something about conflicts of interest.

More from Fox News.

We encourage the Senate not to confirm Mr. Holder. His resume as an attorney and judge are superb, but his previous behavior as Deputy Attorney General illustrates enough questionable conduct at The Justice Department to prevent from serving the country as Attorney General.