While Holder was serving as number 2 in the Clinton justice department, nearly as many terrorists were pardoned as prosecuted. That should have been a clue.
After the 9/11 terrorists were caught, Shiek Khalid Mohammed (the main guy) announced that he and his four pals wanted to plead guilty and be executed. That did not fit the Obama plan so Holder, driven by liberal ideology and not by law and careful judgement - Holder alone decided to transfer these terrorists from military custody at Guantanamo, where they were held as enemy combatants and charged with being war criminals . . . to New York for a civilian trial.
Mr. Holder does not have the power or authorization to do this. Obama probably told him to do it anyway. There is a logical argument that even the President may not have the power. The Supreme Court will probably have to decide.
Submiting these admitted terrorists to our civilian court system would be an awful mista ake. It would grant them civilian rights and, worst of all, furnish them a platform to broadcast their propaganda to the entire world. War is WAR. During WAR is not the time for legal controversy on such a well known and settled procedure. Clearly another of many efforts to expand the powers of the White House. Disgusting.
Such arrogance, and so insulting to the families and friends of the 9/11 victims. But now get this: Holder has gathered so much flak that he has since backed off. He now says that military commissions are fully appropriate, but not for the worst criminals or for the five 9/11 jihadists who, not long ago, stood ready to conclude their lives at the end of a rope.
Such arrogance, and so insulting to the families and friends of the 9/11 victims. But now get this: Holder has gathered so much flak that he has since backed off. He now says that military commissions are fully appropriate, but not for the worst criminals or for the five 9/11 jihadists who, not long ago, stood ready to conclude their lives at the end of a rope.
Does any of this make sense?
Our military forces must LOVE the dysfunctional Obama administration.
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To you, it's all about Holder asking for clemency for a Puerto Rican independence terrorist group and somehow that relates to him deliberately plotting to free, rather than convict some of the masterminds behind 9/11. You will believe what you will and the links wouldn't have convinced you. I would though be interested in reading your links, with evidence that has led to your accusation of Holder being treasonous. If it's Levin or Beck, never mind as they don't have to operate with real evidence on anything.
Let's pass that. I think you are saying that the war on terror is no war but rather a police matter to be handled by our civilian courts and our national legal system. If so, that would be a fundamental difference between us.
I definitely recognize radical Mulim terrorists have, whether we like it or not, declared WAR on all infidels, and especially those from the great Satan America. They are indeed unlike any enemy we have ever had. This is our first ever religious war. The enemy has no home, no clear leadership, no competitive weaponry, and so forth. But they did manage to MURDER 3,000 AMERICAN CITIZENS ON OUR OWN SOIL. These terrorists are not common criminals. They are WAR CRIMINALS.
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The courts had found them guilty by default, since they didn't show up in court! All AG Holder had to do was allow the verdict to stand.
Yeah, your man Holder is quite the guy. This administration is riddled with Chicago goons.
God help us.
On the war, I see there being a group of people intending to kill us. But who do you bomB? Who do you invade? Can you fight a convential war and if you cannot, what does that do to our troops when they are caught firing on civilians because they can't tell who the bad guys are? You wrote about this problem of using the word war for the issue when we don't fight it like a war.
We shall see what Holder does and whether like so many right wingers, he lets off his side and if so, I will say he's wrong and Obama was wrong to appoint him and the Congress to approve him. But it's not a done deal yet as to how effective he will be. I wrote more about this in ingineeer's blog.
(It was Bush's right to fire any/all those attorneys... they served at the President's pleasure, and the news media lied to the American public about it.)
Once again, your lack of credibility stands out like a bloody red nose.
To me having a prvate army on our own ground is highly risky. I don't know if it will end up someday turning against our government because the American people didn't vote appropriately. If that happens, it'll be a right wing takeover,not a leftie takeover. So you know who is at risk to disrupt our system by force and it's not Obama supporters... for now anyway.
The irony DRIPS from that last comment, Rain.
Thanks though for being concerned about our health...
You made it through eight years of seething hate for GWB...
I'm sure we'll make it through four of this Kenyan buffoon.