Holder admits nine Obama Dept. of Justice officials worked for terrorist detainees
By BYRON YORK, Washington Examiner
Our Justice Department is hard at work
Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.
Holder’s admission comes in the form of an answer to a question posed last November by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley. Noting that one Obama appointee, Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, formerly represented Osama bin Laden’s driver, and another appointee, Jennifer Daskal, previously advocated for detainees at Human Rights Watch, Grassley asked Holder to give the Senate Judiciary Committee “the names of political appointees in your department who represent detainees or who work for organizations advocating on their behalf…the cases or projects that these appointees work with respect to detainee prior to joining the Justice Department…and the cases or projects relating to detainees that have worked on since joining the Justice Department.”
In his response, Holder has given Grassley almost nothing. He says nine Obama political appointees at the Justice Department have advocated on behalf of detainees, but did not identify any of the nine other than the two, Katyal and Daskal, whose names Grassley already knew. “To the best of our knowledge,” Holder writes.
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Tags: Eric Holder, Justice Department, Terrorists
February 23rd, 2010 at 4:39 pm
18 USC Chapter 115: Treason, Sedition and Subversive Activities. Does a lawyer defending a terrorist/jihadi gain immunity from an act that otherwise might be considered aiding the enemy? Is it misprision of treason to conceal knowledge of treason under a legal cloak?
This Administration is the most anti-American I have known.
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:38 am
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February 23rd, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Step aside Obama, we have already found your replacement.
He is a REAL American Hero with a REAL American Heart.
Introducing the one, the only Col. of Kandahar, Lt. Col. Allen West.
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Guess what else?
He has the long form of his Birth Certificate that he is not afraid to show to you!
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Sadly,I have never been disgusted or ashamed of my country until this anti-American administration came to power. Myself and my felloe brothers and sisters who have fought in the war on terror are now labeled as "potential terrorists",while the real potential terrorists are given a free pass in the name of political correctness. I can do nothing but mourn a once great country that is being rapidly destroyed by this Kenyan fraud and his assortment of whack jobs,Marxists,and Muslims. I pray God will have mercy on this country,even though we don't deserve it,and these criminals will somehow be brought to justice..and soon..
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Holder should have been locked away for the pardons he appropriated for Mr. Rich and the guerillla Puerto rican terrorists that shot up the Capitol and Blair House and committing murder… He is as well one of "THE GREATEST RECTUMS IN ALL OF DIARRHEA" and the Law Profession..How incompetent.
Shameful…
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Holder needs to be investigated also by the next administration.
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:05 pm
So who is surprised at this???What Jerks they really are.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:29 am
IMPEACH OBAMA IN 2010
THE THUG FROM CHICAGO.
http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:27 pm
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