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Washington Examiner:

An Iowa farmer tried to warn Attorney General Eric Holder on the risks of trying high-value foreign terrorism suspects in American civilian courts. When Holder insisted that “failure is not an option” — his defense of the Obama administration’s decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court in New York — Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley attempted to give the attorney general a little taste of reality.

“I’m a farmer, not a lawyer,” Grassley told Holder at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last November. “I don’t know how you can make a statement that failure to convict is not an option when you’ve got juries in this country. I think a lot of Americans thought O.J. Simpson ought to be convicted of murder.”

Holder would hear nothing of it. “I want to emphasize that I am confident that we will be successful in the trial of these matters,” he told Grassley. And even if KSM or some other high-value terrorism suspect were somehow acquitted, Holder continued, the government could still hold them for other reasons.

If that’s the case, Grassley replied, then what’s the point of putting them in civilian court in the first place? “What do you gain?” Grassley asked. “I’m just trying to bring a little common sense to this.”snip
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I don't believe the title of this article. Holder was counting on acquittal.

Stella!

 

I can only see that acquittal & then holding them anyway; would be a weakening of the Constitution & a bad piece of PR for a very egotistical administration, that enjoys controlling every aspect of it's image. Am I being myopic?

 

IMO-Holder is as incompetent as "Big Sis" and even Obama himself. He was selected by Obama's team & puppet-master to be someone non-Bush and someone easily compromised to make partisan & even ideological decisions, based on whatever their grand socialist plan dictates.

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I don't believe the title of this article. Holder was counting on acquittal.

Stella!

 

I can only see that acquittal & then holding them anyway; would be a weakening of the Constitution & a bad piece of PR for a very egotistical administration, that enjoys controlling every aspect of it's image. Am I being myopic?

 

IMO-Holder is as incompetent as "Big Sis" and even Obama himself. He was selected by Obama's team & puppet-master to be someone non-Bush and someone easily compromised to make partisan & even ideological decisions, based on whatever their grand socialist plan dictates.

 

You do have to wonder how holding an acquitted suspect in perpetuity is better for our national image than holding an unconvicted enemy combatant, but nothing about this administration makes any sense. I see this trial as a way for the AQ folks to perfect their processes for circumventing our judicial system.

 

As far as Holder goes, every decision he seems to have made is based on ideology, forgoing law, the Constitution and just plain common sense. The Iowa farmer in the story gave Holder the same advice as the military, experienced prosecutors and veteran law enforcement officials. Most of the liberals who defended his choice backtracked once the scope of the problems became clear.

 

I had had hopes that Zero would see how big an impediment Holder was early in his administration, but it looks as if we will be forced to withstand his bigotted approach to "justice" for the balance of Zero's term. The silver lining is that his performance further erodes Zero's position and power and should make it easier to oust him in '12.

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I didn't think it was humanly possible to find an AG who could possibly make Janet Reno look competent, but Obambi found somebody who was even worse.

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