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To: LindyBill who wrote (304466)	5/9/2009 4:33:43 PM
From: Bearcatbob	6 Recommendations Respond to of 793888

The only thing that will derail Team Lie Obama will be the bond market. Nancy can say she took a trip on a flying saucer and somehow it would be alright. Until the idiocy financially impacts the Dem elite nothing will change. As excited as we get - the vast majority are in love with O and his team of thugs and liars. Last week interest rates rose, gold rose, oil rose - inflation is coming. That is what will stop the bums who are now in control. That and nothing else. Bob

To: LindyBill who wrote (304466)	5/10/2009 2:15:29 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793888

Re: Obama's Commission Farce [Andy McCarthy]~~Thank goodness for at least one good journalist, Andy McCarthy!! I was curious as to the EH's law firm...found: - Covington & Burling Law Firm...Keep a watchful eye out for these folks from AG Eric Holder's firm: While looking, came across this, and below Malkin's piece: pipelinenews.org >>>>>>> Al Nashiri [born in Saudi Arabia] is part of a group of 15 Yemeni GITMO detainees who are represented by David Remes a member until he was either booted or saw the handwriting on the wall and "resigned" on July 18, 2008, of Attorney General Eric Holder's law firm, Covington & Burling. <<<<<<< >>>>>>>>That until just a few months ago, Mr. Remes and now Attorney General Holder served in the same law firm while Remes actively mounted an over-the-top defense of terrorists of the ilk of Al Nashiri, casting them as victims, will forever cloud the DOJ's dealing with the GITMO detainees.<<<<<<<< $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Pay attention to Eric Holder’s law firm and Gitmo detainees By Michelle Malkin • January 23, 2009 02:41 PM michellemalkin.com A good friend writes: [A]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis, note that AG nominee Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. From the C & B website The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantánamo Bay. The Supreme Court will soon review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the Supreme Court case. We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients. On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions. Covington & Burling’s Gitmo bar roster has included some of the most radical detainee advocates; see David Remes, who peeled down to his underwear at a press conference in Yemen to draw attention to his clients’ plight and Marc Falkoff, who published a book of detainee poetry and who, in the book’s intro, compared their heroic struggle to the Jews held in concentration camps and Japanese Americans held in internment camps during WWII. [One of Falkoff's "gentle, thoughtful" young poets--a Kuwaiti "cleared for release" and repatriated in 2005--blew himself up in a truck bomb in Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42 others.] The fact that Mr. Holder, while Deputy Attorney General, pushed for the release of 16 violent FALN terrorists against the advice of the FBI, the US Attorneys who prosecuted them and the NYPD officers who were maimed by them, suggests that he was perfectly willing to put politics before the national security interests of the country. He is not suited for the job of attorney general, which is central to the issues surrounding the disposition of war on terror detainees