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Pay attention to Eric Holder’s law firm and Gitmo detainees

By Michelle Malkin • January 23, 2009 02:41 PM

A good friend writes:

[A]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis, note that AG nominee Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. From the C & B website:

The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantánamo Bay. The Supreme Court will soon review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the Supreme Court case. We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients. On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.

Covington & Burling’s Gitmo bar roster has included some of the most radical detainee advocates; see David Remes, who peeled down to his underwear at a press conference in Yemen to draw attention to his clients’ plight and Marc Falkoff, who published a book of detainee poetry and who, in the book’s intro, compared their heroic struggle to the Jews held in concentration camps and Japanese Americans held in internment camps during WWII. [One of Falkoff's "gentle, thoughtful" young poets--a Kuwaiti "cleared for release" and repatriated in 2005--blew himself up in a truck bomb in Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42 others.]

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, which is central to the issues surrounding the disposition of war on terror detainees.

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#602086

On January 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

On January 25th, 2009 at 2:13 pm, Ty85719 said:

So now we have a corrupt, plastic neophyte of a president, a secretary of homeland security employed because she “can see Mexico from her house,” a Treasury Secretary who is guilty of tax fraud, and an anti-Gitmo Attorney General who worked for a firm who will directly benefit from the closing of Gitmo, which is a blatant conflict of interest.

First week in office and already the worst president the country has ever witnessed

Ok, but besides that what don’t you like about the man? Come now Ty85719 feel the LUV and bask in the Glow of the Obaminites–or that might be a fragmentation grenade-I am not sure which.

But I do know this: if the jihadist hit New York, Chicago, Boston or any other of the Great Blues I’ll not send a dime. I do firmly believe that These United States need a Great Separating of people. We of the Right are not the ones talking about death camps nor having tea with those who do.

It was and is President Barack Hussein Obama’s friend and mentor William Ayres who danced on the flag. Close Gitmo and bring ALL our troops home from everywhere. I would hate to see American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines die for this odd mix of allah, Karl Marx and Richard Daley.

Has William Ayres started on the death camps yet? Is that part of the Infrastructure package?
#603093

On January 26th, 2009 at 10:28 pm, WarTip said:

Has William Ayres started on the death camps yet? Is that part of the Infrastructure package?

That would almost be funny if it were not such a viable possibility in the very near future. Re-education? We don’t need no stinking re-education.

Fade to black as gun-shot rings out …

Welcome to the new socialist utopia.