The disgrace known as Eric Holder
posted at 1:10 pm on August 1, 2009 by directorblue
[ Homeland Security ]
Last year, Wired Magazine visited the Homeland Security Stakeholders SI Conference and snapped some photos of a transportation security display.
This is a replica of a nitroglycerin bomb that Ramzi Yousef used in an attempt to destroy Philippine Airlines flight 434. The bomb detonated and killed a passenger, but failed to take the plane down.
This shoe-bomb is an accurate copy of Richard Reid’s footwear. The terrorist was subdued by passengers after attempting to ignite his shoes.
According to an FBI investigation, had Reid succeeded, 197 men, women and children would have perished.
Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder decided to improve Reid’s sentencing conditions, permitting him to socialize, evangelize and recruit fellow prisoners. In addition, he can now communicate with sympathetic members of the press. These actions directly contravene advice from every national security expert.
On June 17, at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colo., …inmate number 24079-038, began his day with a whole new range of possibilities. Eight days earlier, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Denver filed notice in federal court that the Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) which applied to that prisoner—Richard C. Reid, a.k.a. the “Shoe Bomber”—were being allowed to expire. SAMs are security directives, renewable yearly, issued by the attorney general when “there is a substantial risk that a prisoner’s communications, correspondence or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury” to others…
…in order to appease political constituencies both here and abroad, the Obama administration is moving full steam ahead, operating on the false premise that giving more civil liberties to religious fanatics bent on destroying Western civilization will make a difference in the Muslim world. In a letter sent to his father as he began his hunger strike, Reid provided a preview of how he will exercise his newly enlarged free speech rights, calling Mr. Obama a “hypocrite” who is “no better than George Bush.” His lawsuit remains active while the Department of Justice works out a settlement that satisfies the man who declared, “I am at war with America.”
Put simply, Holder — following President Obama’s orders, it would seem — has unleashed Reid to pursue Jihad in prison, evangelizing, preaching and editorializing to recruit those who would re-enact 9/11 on a grander scale.
Perhaps this action should not comes as a surprise. Holder was a senior partner in the prestigious law firm of Covington & Burling, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. In January, an anonymous contributor to Michelle Malkin’s website wrote:
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…
That statement was, quite obviously, prescient.
Remember the case where several “New Black Panthers” intimidated Caucasian, Hispanic and Asian voters at a polling place in Philadelphia? They flaunted billy clubs at at the polls until the police showed up. One of the defendants, Jerry Jackson, is an elected member of the local Democratic Committee and, at the time of the incident, was a “credentialed poll watcher for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party“.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice (i.e., the Obama administration) killed a civil complaint related to the incident. A prominent 1960s civil rights activitist called the case “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” he’d ever seen, including the Mississippi voting rights crisis. A former commissioner at the Federal Election Commission stated, “In my experience, I have never heard of the department refusing to take a default judgment.”
Holder’s behavior is outrageous. He has not only failed to uphold his oath of office, but his decisions to act as a puppet for administration policy, consequences be damned, indicate a reckless disregard for the law and the safety of all Americans. Holder must resign or be ejected from office.
Update: Hack Panthers.
Cross-posted at: Doug Ross @ Journal.
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The only qualifications thugs have to have is blind loyalty and obedience to their leader. Maybe they also need total disrespect of themselves or does that go without saying?
Let’s stop kidding ourselves, Ø’s goons all told are not qualified. They merely sit in the offices behind the doors with distinguished titles, they don’t serve the office.
ericdijon on August 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Holder will not resign. He’s the perfect person for Obama. They’re both doing everything they can to bring the country down.
Daggett on August 1, 2009 at 6:15 PM
This is why people say that elections have consequences.
“I Eric Holder, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So
help me God.”
The following is an exerpt from a 1999 Assertion of Executive Privilege With Respect To Clemency Decision.
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/falnpotus.htm
The granting of clemency pursuant to the pardon power is unquestionably an exclusive province of the Executive Branch. U.S. Const., Art. II, § 2, cl. 1.
U.S. Const., Art. II, § 2, Clause 1: Command of military; Opinions of cabinet secretaries; Pardons
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
The President is the military’s commander-in-chief; however Article One gives Congress and not the President the authority to declare war. Presidents have often deployed troops with Congressional authorization, but without an explicit declaration of war. (Since WW II, every major military action has been technically a U.S. military operation or a U.N. “police action”, which are deemed legally legitimate because of decisions such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Authorization for Use of Force by Congress, and various U.N. Resolutions. This is also true in the case of the Korean War, which was only retroactively deemed a war—50 years to the day, after the fact—by a ceremonial Act of Congress.)
The President may require the “principal officer” of any executive department to tender his advice in writing. Thus, implicitly, the Constitution creates a Cabinet that includes the principal officers of the various departments.
The President, furthermore, may grant pardon or reprieves, except in cases of impeachment. Originally, the pardon could be rejected by the convict. In Biddle v. Perovich, however, the Supreme Court reversed the doctrine, ruling that “a pardon in our days is not a private act of grace from an individual happening to possess power. It is a part of the Constitutional scheme. When granted it is the determination of the ultimate authority that the public welfare will be better served by inflicting less than what the judgment fixed.”
See United States v. Klein, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 128, 147 (1871) (“To the executive alone is intrusted the power of pardon”); see also Public Citizen v. Department of Justice, 491 U.S. 440, 485 (1989) (Kennedy, J., concurring) (reaffirming that pardon power is “commit[ted] . . . to the exclusive control of the President”).
In exercising his clemency power, the President may seek to obtain the views of various advisors as he deems appropriate.
The President, in his action on pardon cases, is not subject to the control or supervision of anyone, nor is he accountable in any way to any branch of the government for his action, and to establish a precedent of submitting pardon papers to Congress, or to a Committee of Congress, does not seem to me to be a wise one.
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What my essential take is that if you want to have Eric Holder held accountable for his actions and removed from the U.S. Attorney General position, we need to remove his political confidant from the oval office first. This president will have to be impeached or not re-elected to office in 2012. Kinda sucks doesn’t it?
Americannodash on August 1, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Eric Holder’s Justice Department by Jennifer Rubin
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/799hlime.asp?pg=1
Jenifer Rubin’s article is a great read.
Americannodash on August 2, 2009 at 2:01 AM
Nope. Evangelize means telling good news. He’s proselytizing.
jgapinoy on August 3, 2009 at 7:43 PM