Oops! He Did It Again!

By Semperpapa

Just another surprise from America’s most ethical Attorney General, Eric Holder: it appears from a statement from the Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller that at the time Eric Holder was going through the confirmation process, Mr. Holder “forgot” to disclose a legal brief he had contributed to in which he declared that the Executive branch of government does not have the authority to hold an American citizen, declared enemy combatant, in prison indefinitely.
The brief was issued by Holder, in conjunction with Janet Reno and couple more Clinton era officials, to address the case of Jose Padilla, a US citizen turned al Qaeda terrorist before his capture.

According to the brief, Holder maintains that handling suspected terrorists in federal court does not preclude gaining intelligence about other terror plots in planning. He also said that the procedure is not a guarantee that intelligence can be achieved, but the benefits of Mirandizing terror suspects and affording them legal representation outweighs the negatives. Obviously, that is an assertion Holder is not ready to make any longer as in the case of Abdulmutallab.
Moreover, the brief calls “speculative’ the possibility that vital national security information can be delayed or withheld altogether once the terror suspect lawyers up. He calls it the “inherent limitation of Executive powers”. In other words, Holder and Co. believes that the Executive branch, namely the President, does not have the power to do all that is necessary to safeguard the lives of American citizens. The possibility of not gaining the info necessary to save lives is called “speculative”.

Michelle Malkin reminds us that this “omission” of information is not the first instance for Eric Holder, leaving the American people wondering if this is a pattern we should be concerned of.

The other omission was the fact that Eric Holder had been hired by former Illinois Governor Blagojevich to probe corruption accusations made against the gambling licensing agency process in the state. The contract was a fairly lucrative one for Holder, who after receiving a cool $300,000, found no corruption in Blagojevich’s agency. The coincidences in today’s Liberal world are truly astonishing.

I wonder, now, how those 19 Republican Senators who voted to confirm Holder feel about their decision. They were the usual suspects like Snowe, Collins, Specter, Voinovich, Graham; but I want to believe that others like McCain and Session and Hatch and Kyl and Bond must feel pretty much as if they have been bamboozled in allowing this first degree liar, this big time corrupted man be Attorney General.

So now that Holder has been caught again guilty of the crime of omission, would anyone want to wager that NOTHING else has been omitted? Does anyone really care, especially among the Republicans in Congress? Is that crickets I hear?

Just my thoughts!