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Holder has condemned the Guantanamo Bay detention center as an international embarrassment, even though detainees there are treated more humanely than even the Geneva Conventions require. BTW, these subhuman savages ARE NOT entitled to Geneva Convention protections in the first place and certainly are not entitled to the same constitutional protections as if they were American citizens.
http://article.nationalreview.com/437992/holder-aiding-al-qaeda/andrew-c-mccarthy"
Eric Holder is lying through his teeth to the American people.
In depth information about Erik Holder and his large part in the Clinton pardon of 16 communist FALN terrorists.
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"As Deputy Attorney General, Holder, as The Washington Post explained, 'was the gatekeeper for presidential pardons.' Indeed, Holder was a key figure entrusted with the task of vetting the Clinton administration's 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001. The beneficiaries of those pardons included such notables as former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg (who was involved in the deadly 1981 armed robbery of a Brink's armored car) and Linda Evans (who had used false identification to buy firearms, harbored a fugitive, and was in possession of 740 pounds of dynamite at the time of her arrest in 1985)."
The the FBI is subject to the DOJ so therefore Holder has ultimate authority over the FBI.
FBI website links to sites praising the marxist/muslim terrorists William Ayers and Leonard Peltier.
A good question maybe the master of political philosophy emain can answer some of those questions for me????
American Thinker: Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl Marx
180 DOCUMENTED VICTIMS OF CHÉ GUEVARA IN CUBA
http://article.nationalreview.com/437992/holder-aiding-al-qaeda/andrew-c-mccarthy"
Eric Holder is lying through his teeth to the American people.
Eric Holder is chief among the many Obama Justice Department lawyers who, during the Bush years, donated their services as private attorneys for the benefit of al-Qaeda terrorists.
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Nothing has changed. As the Obama administrations attorney general, Holder is still gratuitously taking positions that help the likes of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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The attorney generals latest claims are grossly misleading. First, he asserts that guilty pleas are permitted in civilian capital cases as if to imply that only in military courts must we have burdensome trials in which juries must approve the death penalty.
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........Holder conveniently elides mention not only of this fact but of the history of capital punishment in civilian international-terrorism cases. In the 16 years since the federal death penalty was restored in 1994 16 years throughout which the United States has been ravaged by jihadist terror the Justice Department has approved capital charges for exactly three defendants: .......
In each case, civilian juries rejected the death penalty. If Holder is saying theres a better chance these savages will be executed if they are tried in the civilian system (and that is precisely what hes implying), there is nothing to support that claim.
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Second, the claim Holder floats that guilty pleas may not be permissible in capital military-commission cases is meritless.
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Nice try. Military commissions are not courts martial, even though it has been a project of the Left when it is not trying to endow our terrorist enemies with all the rights of American civilians to vest them with the same legal protections our law gives to American soldiers. Commissions, moreover, do not take place pursuant to the model of military law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Instead, they are governed by a special statute, the Military Commissions Act (MCA).
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Furthermore, Holder is now the attorney general. He is no longer at liberty to freelance for terrorists his client is the United States, which is at war with terrorists pursuant to a congressional authorization approved with overwhelming bipartisan support. His client is not the foreign terrorists: KSM already has plenty of lawyers. Holders client is the American public (i.e., the people KSM wants to kill). Thus, while Holder may not like military commissions, he is obliged to make them work, just as any attorney general who disagrees, as a private citizen, with the policy behind a given law is duty-bound to resist undermining that law in his official capacity.
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When critics contended that Americans had a right to know whether lawyers who chose to donate their services to al-Qaeda were now in charge of counterterrorism policy, Holder wailed that the patriotism of Justice Department lawyers was being attacked.
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In taking up Padillas cause, Holder was not acting out of obligation. He was acting out of passion, out of ideology. More forthright then than he is now, Holder conceded that using the civilian-justice system would limit the nations ability to conduct interrogations, to obtain timely intelligence, and to detain dangerous terrorists. Yet, he argued, these costs were a price worth paying to forestall what he saw as the real danger to America: not jihadist terror but unchecked presidential and military power over the prosecution of war.
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The attorney generals blind passion for his ideology has not changed. Mr. Holder would have us believe that lawyers are super-scrupled altruists who shed all their private biases the minute they assume public office the minute they have, at last, the raw power to enforce those biases. But the truth is far from that. Schooled to regard the law as a tool for achieving social justice (which is to say, a tool for enforcing their biases) lawyers may be the least altruistic officials of all.
In depth information about Erik Holder and his large part in the Clinton pardon of 16 communist FALN terrorists.
In 2008 Holder campaigned heavily for then-Illinois senator Barack Obama's presidential run. In the summer of 2008, candidate Obama tapped Holder to serve on the vice presidential selection team that ultimately chose Joe Biden to be Obamas running mate. In November 2008, President-elect Obama, who was slated to take his oath of office two months later, selected Holder to serve as his Attorney General.
At the time Obama made this selection, the Washington, DC-based law firm Covington & Burling (C&B), where Holder was a partner, was representing 17 Yemeni detainees (and one Pakistani national) in Guantanamo Bay. A notable former client of Holder's firm was yet another Guantanamo detainee, from Kuwait, ....... The aforementioned Kuwaiti was released from Guantanamo in 2005 and promptly resumed his terrorist activities. In March 2008 he blew himself up with a truck bomb in Mosul, Iraq, killing 13 Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42 others.
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On May 13, 2010, Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee. During his testimony, Rep. Lamar Smith tried to get the Attorney General to acknowledge that radical Islam might have played a role in motivating several recently attempted terrorist attacks against U.S. interests -- most notably Major Nidal Malik Hasan's November 2009 shooting of 13 fellow U.S. soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas; Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab's attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day 2009; and Faisal Shahzad's attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square on May 1, 2010.
Holder refused to acknowledge Smith's assertion.
Holder was also intimately involved in President Clintons August 11, 1999 pardon of 16 members of the FALN, acronym for the Armed Forces of National Liberationa violent terrorist organization (as designated by the FBI) that was active in the U.S. from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s.
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The FALN was a Marxist-Leninist group whose overriding mission was to secure Puerto Ricos political independence from the United States. Toward that end, between 1974 and 1983 the group detonated nearly 130 bombs in such strategically selected places as military and government buildings, financial institutions, and corporate headquarters located mainly in Chicago, New York, and Washington DC. .............. All told, FALN bombs killed six peopleincluding the Chilean ambassador to the United Statesand wounded at least 80 others.
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All the defendants were found guilty and were sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from 35 to 105 years.
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Throughout the clemency review process, neither Holder nor anyone else in the Justice Department contacted any of the people who had been victimized (or whose loved ones had been victimized) by the FALN. Most were never aware that clemency for the terrorists was even being contemplated. And those few who were aware of the possibility were rebuffed in their efforts to participate in the review process.
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Indeed the Deputy Attorney General was methodically spearheading the march toward clemency -- despite the fact that the sentencing judges, the U.S. Attorneys, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Fraternal Order of Police, and the FBI were unanimous in their opposition to pardoning the individuals in question.
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................ clemency was granted to sixteen terrorists, most of whom had served only a fraction of their prison terms. Of the sixteen, twelve accepted the offer and were freed, two refused it, and two others, who already were out of prison, never responded.
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Congress, for its part, was not pleasedcondemning the clemencies by votes of 95-2 in the Senate and 311-41 in the House.
In the aftermath of August 11, 1999, a report by the Justice Department stated that the FALN posed an ongoing threat to national security. And in late October 1999 the Senate Judiciary Committee released a report from Attorney General Janet Reno stating that the FALN members impending release from prison would increase the present threat of terrorism.
In an October 20th Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, and again with reporters the following day, Eric Holder denied that Reno was referring to the same FALN terrorists whose pardons he had worked so long and hard to secure. Yet when Holder was asked to identify whom Reno was in fact talking about, he responded as follows:
I dont know, no, I dont know that. We might be able to get you some more information on that, but, I mean, you know, there were certain people who are due to be released, or who were at least eligible for parole, had a release date in the next, as I said, three, four years. I dont know exactly who they were. Maybewe might be able to get you that information.
Neither Holder nor the Justice Department ever provided any additional names.
Also:
"As Deputy Attorney General, Holder, as The Washington Post explained, 'was the gatekeeper for presidential pardons.' Indeed, Holder was a key figure entrusted with the task of vetting the Clinton administration's 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001. The beneficiaries of those pardons included such notables as former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg (who was involved in the deadly 1981 armed robbery of a Brink's armored car) and Linda Evans (who had used false identification to buy firearms, harbored a fugitive, and was in possession of 740 pounds of dynamite at the time of her arrest in 1985)."
The the FBI is subject to the DOJ so therefore Holder has ultimate authority over the FBI.
FBI website links to sites praising the marxist/muslim terrorists William Ayers and Leonard Peltier.
In a 2001 memoir, he (Ayers) wrote, "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them."
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The United website also features Peltier's letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
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Kent's video questions the FBI's Web links in light of its official mission to "protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign-intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the Untied States, and to provide leadership and criminal-justice services to federal, state, municipal and international agencies and partners."
"Is the FBI showing leadership to other law-enforcement agencies when it recommends 'resources' that promote a terror bomber and the defenders of cop killers?" he asks.
A good question maybe the master of political philosophy emain can answer some of those questions for me????
The FBI media office, contacted by WND and asked for comment, transferred a reporter to an answering machine and then declined to return the call.
American Thinker: Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl Marx
180 DOCUMENTED VICTIMS OF CHÉ GUEVARA IN CUBA
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