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To: LindyBill who wrote (355225)3/23/2010 12:39:25 PM
From: Brumar893 Recommendations   of 793928
 
Their problem is they have a corrupt hack as AG. When he opens his mouth in public thats evident. The worst thing is thats the reason he was picked:

The attorney general's insistence that Osama bin Laden will never be taken alive and his odd statement about Mirandizing bin Laden's corpse; his comparison of bin Laden to Charles Manson; his assertion that the 50 minutes spent questioning Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a "fairly long period of time" — those and other statements amounted to a blooper reel from just one Holder appearance. In addition, Holder's testimony made clear that there is still indecision and confusion inside the Obama administration about what to do with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; postponing Holder's committee appearance until mid-April gives Team Obama three more weeks to figure out what to do with KSM. "This is about keeping Holder from digging another hole for the administration in a forum where the questioners are better prepared," says one source.

A source on Capitol Hill confirmed to me that the White House used the ObamaCare signing as their reason to postpone Holder's appearance at Judiciary. However, the real reason could be a series of embarrassing admissions in a submission to the committee from the DoJ. Judiciary had asked for answers on the oft-claimed "hundreds" of terrorists tried in the federal court system, as well as an explanation of how the federal court system can protect national-security information as well as military commissions. According to this source, the DoJ's answers confirm exactly what had been suspected — that Holder has not been telling the truth on either point:

In responses submitted to the Judiciary Committee this afternoon, the Department of Justice concedes that military commission trials have better safeguards for protecting classified national security information from leaks than civilian criminal trials. Although Attorney General Holder has repeatedly testified that civilian criminal trials are just as effective as military commission trials in protecting classified information, ...
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