*More On Those Terrorist Lawyers At The Justice Department: *From,
unfortunately, an anonymous commentator giving us off-the-record
comments from unnamed government officials.
But this issue is so important that I thought I should share this
<http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/01/nameless-abettors> with you,
anyway.
[Iowa Senator Chuck] Grassley has for months been requesting the
names and positions of all Obama Department of Justice attorneys --
almost all of them political appointees -- who prior to joining the
administration worked directly or indirectly for suspected
terrorists or enemy combatants. On February 19, Grassley received
a five-page letter from Attorney General Eric Holder's office
claiming that at least nine lawyers at the department either
represented detainees or worked on amicus briefs on detainees'
behalf. But the letter did not reveal the names of those lawyers.
But DOJ sources say there may be as many as 16 political appointees
-- including Holder -- who represented detainees, worked on or
signed onto amicus briefs on detainees' behalf, or provided legal
counsel to organizations that actively sought to reverse Bush
Administration anti-terrorist and detainee policies. These groups
included the leftist organizations Human Rights Watch and Citizens
for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
So Holder is refusing to tell us who these terrorist lawyers are, how
many there are in the Justice Department, and what they are now working on.
The "Prowler" ends with this:
Ironically, say DOJ sources, while Holder and his staff continue to
work hard to protect the identities of those attorneys who provided
legal advice to suspected or convicted terrorists, several of the
attorneys in question are believed to have been instrumental in the
efforts of Human Rights Watch and CREW to leak to the media and
Democrat supporters on Capitol Hill, the names of CIA interrogators
of enemy combatants and suspected terrorists, as well as the
locations of foreign-based U.S. secure holding facilities and
various interrogation techniques used on terror suspects and enemy
combatants.
He (or she) calls that ironic; I call it disturbing.
(Earlier post on this subject here
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/February2010_3.html#jrm8414>.
Attorney General Eric Holder is forcing us to rely on anonymous sources,
but we still should be cautious about accepting what they say, although
I saw nothing implausible in this account.)
- 11:55 AM, 3 March 2010 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/March2010_1.html#jrm8440>
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