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
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some people need killin'
On Mar 3, 3:09 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> *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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