Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder’s conflicted DOJ
Attorney General Eric Holder, Team Obama’s Dirty Dozen (get your trading cards here)
I’ve been pounding on corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder’s brazen conflicts of interests and terror-friendly law firm work. Now, the Washington Times has the exclusive on a DOJ recusal list that looks to be the tip of the iceberg:
The Obama Justice Department is having problems prosecuting terrorist cases because top department attorneys have conflicts of interest.
According to documents obtained exclusively by The Washington Times, Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, No. 3 official in the Justice Department, had to recuse himself on at least 13 active detainee cases and at least 26 cases listed as either closed or mooted.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, made waves Nov. 18 when he demanded that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. provide a list of all the suspected-terrorist detainee cases from which current Justice Department political appointees have had to recuse themselves. The extent of the conflicts at the department is still unclear.
Mr. Perrelli’s recusals presumably stem from the work that either he or his former firm, Jenner & Block LLP, did on behalf of detainees while Mr. Perrelli served on the firm’s management committee and on its appellate and Supreme Court practice groups. And Mr. Perrelli is just one official; a number of other Justice Department officials apparently did private-sector work on detainee cases.
This is an important topic. Even if each official who did prior work on detainee cases has indeed properly recused himself from those cases while at the Justice Department, there could be such a large number of affected officials that the department’s prevailing ethos could be tilted strongly in the detainees’ favor. Mr. Grassley’s inquiry is pressing because it could ferret out any instance in which a department official should have been recused but wasn’t…
….ile the rest of the list of recusals has yet to be provided to the senator, The Washington Times secured the Perrelli recusal list, which previously had been distributed widely within the Justice Department. Herewith, consider this list of names of detainees whose cases are listed as “active” on the Perrelli recusal list:
Saad Al Qahtani. Mohammed Zahrani. Achraf Salim (“Sultan”) Abdessalam. Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghityh Sulayman. Musaab Omar Al Madhwani. Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan (Al Sahlani). Majid Khan.
Also listed as active are the cases of Anam v. Bush, Jabbarov v. Bush, Bronte v. Department of Defense, Al Odah et. al. v. USA, Boumediene v. Bush, and Rumsfeld v. Padilla.
None of this is to say that Mr. Perrelli did anything wrong. His recusals are proper, but the extent of the recusals raises questions about whether the attorney general has enough unbiased advisers around him to have made good judgments about how to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other detainees.
Who else at DOJ’s top levels have similar recusal lists?
This is not the end of the story. It’s just the beginning.
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It’s justice for him and not for thee. Where is the conflict?
Thinking of the characters in Animal Farm, Gibbs is probably Squealer and Holder might be Bluebell.
Wow, #1 and #2. Has everyone been silenced?
How is it that Holder could make any decisions about where detainee cases are being tried as he too has worked for a lawfirm that defended these guys? Would that not be considered a conflict of interest?
I was thinking the same thing True. Any judge or court officer would have to recuse himself from these cases, no? How does he then decide the venue?
I am smelling a big stink at the wh and all those there are involved with. Dear timmy, now holder, and dare I hope this goes to the ‘top’? Every single person this bho has gotten into his inner circle is beyond scum. This does mean our dear mo too.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart Michelle for posting all this.
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In effect, the DOJ has provided “prospects” to their former firms by moving the trials to U.S. soil.
After their stints at justice, I’m sure their previous employers will give them a substantial finders fee.
Looks to me like the entire DofJ needs to recuse itself from any case where any laws might have been broken.
The motto of Eric Holder and the DOJ under Oba Mao: “Regardless of your crime or crimes; how many or in what manner or in what nation you’ve murdered, if you can stack those Franklins high enough we’ll pimp ourselves to you.”
Surly, its no accident this firm is currently so well represented in the DOJ.
Grassley also asked for the list of officials involved that were NOT recused as well. Holder disembled badly at this question and at first flat out refused to give it to the senator.
We are not even at the begining of the end of this!
Organizing for America Director Mitch Stewart said “It’s dangerous.”
Oh wait, he wasn’t speaking about Holden’s plan to try terrorists in New York. He was warning about Sarah Palin’s book tour.
And with the latest Gallup Daily tracking results showing only 49% of Americans approving of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, I can see why they fear letting Palin loose on America more than they fear turning terrorists loose on America.
The”Department of Justice” now has the same connotation as the Ministry of Truth, The Ministry of Love, and The Ministry of Peace.
Don’t forget,the Ministry of Silly Walks
This whole administration is like a replay of Animal Farm.
We will never reach the bottom of the endless cesspool of lies and corruption of the Obama Administration. It is all they have, all they are about. In fact, their real motives come out more each day, and often from their own lips.
Sadly, even with all the facts that have surfaced thus far, scant little has been done to correct the errors, or at the most remove the abusers from their positions.
Character, decency and principles are enemies of today’s Democrat machine. Why anyone would continue to support them is either a sad testament to culture, or the sad reality of stupidity.
The question should be ‘why’, not ‘how’.
IMHO, their purpose is to put the Bush Administration on trial, and also get Islam in general off the terrorist hook.
Holder will be personally responsible for any future attacks on civilians by terrorists because he is sending the message that by attacking non-military targets the terrorists will get treated as criminals. How does he expect to get the detainees to NYC? Does he think that the people of this country will just let a plane land at the airport? Does he think that he can find a jury willing to hear the case? Since the gov seems to ignore the Constitution, why would American citizens not refuse to participate in jury selection for these trials? He is not up for this job!
So where do I send my $10 to rent a house next to the Holder residence for these terrorist clowns to live when they are found not guilty by reason of EH and BO insanity?