Secret Administration

By Semperpapa

If my memory does not fault me, one of the slogans continuously thrown in the faces of the American voters prior to the 2008 Presidential Elections was that once elected Obama was going to stop the air of secrecy that the Bush Administration had been accused of creating. Everything was going to be out in the open for the people to witness.

Well, so far the Obama machine has truly an abysmal record on the matter, especially when it comes to the actions of Attorney General Eric Holder.
There are too many instances of secret dealing involving Holder to list all, but just as a reminder, the multiple requests made by some members of Congress regarding the “legalities” involved in the dismissal of the charges against the Black Panthers going unanswered, should ring a bell.

Now the latest from AG Holder. Byron York from the Washington Examiner wrote on 19 February, 2010 about the response that Holder gave Senator Charles Grassley request for additional information on some of the political appointees at the Department of Justice.

Grassley’s request came in November 2009 when the names of two lawyers, political appointees of Obama, who appeared to have connections, of a professional kind, with detainees in Guantanamo. One was Neal Katyal, who had been representing Osama bin Laden driver, and Jennifer Daskal, who had represented Gitmo detainees for Human Rights Watch.

The connection of these two attorneys with the defense of terrorists emerged as they were politically appointed in the DoJ, and the knowledge of such small detail provoked the interest and request of Sen. Grassley. As mentioned already, the request was made in November 2009 and only now Holder is getting around to give a response.

The information requested by Grassley was of the names of the other nine lawyers, political appointees, who were now working in the Justice Department and the cases they had been involved in. The AG response mentioned that the nine people in question had, to one degree or another, been involved in litigation in favor of detainees, but what Holder continues to keep secret is their names and the specific of the cases.

It will be interesting to see what the response from the Senate will be to this blatant attempt to keep information from becoming public.

It is frankly disheartening to witness the actions of Mr. Holder. His tenure as Attorney general has been marked by non-sensical decisions that are hard to comprehend, unless one embraces the notion that the man is out to create his own personal empire in which he facilitates the enemies of the Nation while trying to turn the common American into the guilty party.

We already have Islamic radicals infiltrated in our law enforcement community at the federal and local level, from the FBI to the local Police Department, accomplished by the extortionist pressures made by organizations like CAIR and ISNA capitalizing on the fear of prosecution that a complacent Dept. of Justice has instilled in the spineless leadership of some of these agencies.
Now we hear the admission on the part of Holder that at least some of the attorneys that could be involved in the prosecution of terrorists have, in the past, worked in their defense.
Anybody see a problem with this situation?

And it’s interesting how some of this garbage is fed to the American people when the American people are more likely to not being paying that much attention, like on weekends and when most people are watching the Winter Olympics.
But the most disturbing part is that Obama and Holder don’t appear to be deterred by the awful smell of decaying excrements that their actions emanate. They are not at all concerned that the American people may not be too happy with the shenanigans they are feeding us.
After all they are the intellectuals, the elite of our political and social multitude and they do not have to explain or justify their action to us, the lower masses.

Just my thoughts!