Posts Tagged ‘Eric Holder’
Deplorable. How can you fight an enemy you cannot even acknowledge exists?
An article I submitted to NewsRealblog a couple of days ago was just published. It’s an analysis piece on NPR’s “On Point with Tom Ashbook” broadcast this past Monday (11/16). The segment was entitled “A 9/11 Trial in New York.” Ashbrook’s first guest was a report for the Wall Street Journal who explained very matter-of-factly that the decision to prosecute KSM & Co. was purely political. The two guests who joined afterward were former Judge Advocates General – one for the navy, and the other for the army. They held views opposite to one another. One of them was an idiot, a moron of the lowest order. Read the article, and you’ll see what I mean.
I don’t know what’s worse – KSM and his cohorts being tried in NYC, or listening to leftist know-it-alls explain why sometimes 2 and 2 equal 5. Because that’s what is going on here. We’re expected to believe that turning our justice system upside down to accomodate a bunch of scumbag terrorists is somehow good for the country. We’re just never told how, exactly.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) cross-examined a clueless and often rambling Eric Holder about his rationale behind the decision to prosecute KSM in civilian court. The result is difficult to watch. Holder is, after all, our nation’s Attorney General:
Holder comes across like a schoolboy who forgot his homework. What an inept performance. There was a pause of SEVEN SECONDS between Graham’s first question and Holder’s stammering response. Did the media and blogosphere pick up on this and run with it the way they did with President Bush on 9/11? No, of course not. Leftists stick together.
I’d like Holder to answer the questions posed by Frank Gafney, too:
Think that’ll happen anytime soon? Not likely.
I’d really like to see Eric Holder and Rudi Guiliani in a courtroom DeathMatch. Here’s what Rudi thinks about this KSM in NYC business:
These are very dangerous times, and that thin blue line between civilization and chaos has just been erased.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to bring self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of his alleged co-conspirators to trial in New York City is a disaster. Barring a repetition in civilian court of an earlier confession, it is at least as likely that the terrorist known internationally by his initials, KSM, will be set free as it is that he will be executed for the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans eight years ago.
Frank J. Gaffney
Founder and President Center for Security Policy,
Washington, DCThe Center for Security Policy is a not-for-profit, non-partisan educational corporation established in 1988. Under Mr. Gaffney’s leadership, the Center has been nationally and internationally recognized as a resource for timely, informed and penetrating analyses of foreign and defense policy matters. Mr. Gaffney also contributes actively to these debates in his capacity as a columnist for the Washington Times and as a monthly contributor to Defense News and Investor’s Business Daily. He is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a columnist for American Spectator Online, WorldNetDaily.com and JewishWorldReview.com. He is a featured weekly contributor to Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio program and appears frequently on national and international television and radio programs. In addition, his op-ed articles have appeared, among other places, in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, and Newsday.
In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving nuclear forces, arms control and U.S.-European defense relations. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO’s senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.
From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle. From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Senator John Tower (R-Texas). In the latter 1970′s, Mr. Gaffney served as an aide to the late Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (D-Washington) in the areas of defense and foreign policy.
Mr. Gaffney holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Gaffney was born in 1953 and resides in the Washington area.
(From NewsReal)
by kathyshaidle
Good to know Attorney General Eric Holder has his priorities straight.
Last night, Sean Hannity of FOX News reported that a lengthy ethics investigation of former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has been suddenly called off. Hannity cited an “anonymous source” who told reporters that the investigation “was killed in Washington.”
(Richardson, whom Hannity described as “a close ally of the Obama administration,” was up for the choice post of Commerce Secretary, until a federal grand jury began an investigation into a state contract awarded to one of Richardson’s major political donors.)
Instead, Holder has decided to focus his investigative powers elsewhere. As Joseph Klein wrote here August 25, Holder has appointed a “prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA interrogation abuses during the Bush administration. It is arguably one of the worst decisions to date of an already disastrous Obama administration. It chills effective intelligence-gathering as long as interrogators have to worry that everything they say and do may end up being used against them in a criminal trial.”
I feel safer already, don’t you?
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
Obama Administration Declares War…On CIA
Behind the scenes at the White House a power struggle has been waged between CIA Director Leon Panetta and Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the prosecution of Bush-era CIA officials. Holder won, and has announced the appointment of special prosecutor John Durham to carry out the investigation.
