The latest on the Holder/DOJ national security cover-up
Conservative media outlets continue to chip away at the Holder stonewall on government-subsidized terror lawyers working at the DOJ.
Quin Hilyer at the Washington Times sums up the latest and asks the questions that need to be asked:
Over at The American Spectator, the mysterious Prowler breaks new ground not just on the identities of the Justice Department lawyers who may have done (perfectly legal) work for suspected-terrorist detainees, but on why DoJ has been so unwilling to release any information on the issue. In particular, this is news to me:
Ironically, say DOJ sources, while Holder and his staff continue to work hard to protect the identities of those attorneys who provided legal advice to suspected or convicted terrorists, several of the attorneys in question are believed to have been instrumental in the efforts of Human Rights Watch and CREW to leak to the media and Democrat supporters on Capitol Hill, the names of CIA interrogators of enemy combatants and suspected terrorists, as well as the locations of foreign-based U.S. secure holding facilities and various interrogation techniques used on terror suspects and enemy combatants.Wow. And wow again. If these people are leaking the CIA names, they are clearly engaged in illegal activity, bordering on treasonous in the non-legal sense of the word. For that matter, where have all the lefties been who screamed bloody murder when Robert Novak and Richard Armitage innocently leaked the name of utterly desk-bound, high-profile, arguably not even covert Valerie Plame? Inadvertently leaking Plame’s name is far less of an offense than deliberately leaking the info about the CIA interrogators. Where are the calls for prosecutions? Where is the almighty Patrick Fitzgerald to put some more skins on the wall?
Cue the sound of chirping crikets…
See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
 |
The Gitmo circus
May 7, 2012 09:28 AM by Michelle Malkin
186 CommentsKatie Pavlich exposes “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up”
April 16, 2012 10:09 AM by Michelle Malkin
133 Comments
Eric Holder’s office: O’Keefe group’s video not evidence vote fraud is possible because it’s ‘manufactured’
April 9, 2012 03:21 PM by Doug Powers
80 Comments
KSM and company go on military trial, face death penalty
April 4, 2012 01:30 PM by Michelle Malkin
65 Comments
Fast and Furious follow-up: Issa, Grassley press Holder on ICE officer Jaime Zapata’s murder
February 27, 2012 04:09 PM by Michelle Malkin
56 Comments
Fast and Furious showdown: Holder/Obama defend bloody culture of contempt; Update: Fortress Holder, Stonewall City; vid clips added, Dems advise, “Don’t answer”
February 2, 2012 09:16 AM by Michelle Malkin
158 CommentsAttention: Obama’s coming to Arizona, Ground Zero of his Fast and Furious debacle
January 23, 2012 02:08 PM by Michelle Malkin
58 CommentsThe Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers
December 28, 2011 12:04 PM by Michelle Malkin
122 Comments
The Brian Terry Memorial Act passes
December 15, 2011 06:08 PM by Michelle Malkin
21 Comments
Categories: Eric Holder,Gitmo
Pundit & Pundette
» Patterico's chilling account of harassmentNice Deb
» The Organized Left Now Stalking RomneyBetsys Page
» Cruising the WebNRO
» Unleash Biden!NewsBusters.org
» Very Annoyed Matthews Rips ‘Horse’s Ass Right-Wingers’ Who Cite ‘Thrill Up My Leg,’ Calls C-SPAN Host a ‘Jackass’
Sounds like treason to me, but what do I know?
Wow, just wow indeed! If it can be proved these lawyers did leak this information, these people should be in prison.
Thanks Michelle for keeping us up-dated on this.
L
Welcome to the Obama administration.
Except they are the people who would have to prosecute themselves. Dictatorships have benefits…
The obvious conclusion is that Holder is protecting these people because he approves of what they are doing. What we see as treason, he sees as something else – justice, maybe.
Those of us who refer to donks as the Domestic Enemy are not engaging in hyperbole. Sounds like Ann Coulter needs to write an addendum to her book Treason, to freshen it up for the Age of Hope-a-Dope.
Example #6,924,715 of the presence of our domestic enemies.
The enemies of this country are now RUNNING this country!
The next Republican congress is going to be investigating the justice department for years!
Covington & Burling. The law firm representing many Gitmoites, and supplying unnamed lawyers to the DOJ. Quid pro quo?
Wow! The enemy is indeed within…
Well, a million more citizens are now more informed than they were yesterday. Thanks for exposing these creeps to disinfecting Sunlight!
Every dog has his day, Holder is no exception.
That is treasonous activity. Routine for the left, of course, but treasonous. Wonder if the MSM will pick up on this and start asking questions…oops, sorry, went off into fantasy for a moment there.
Human Rights Watch is a fiercely antiIsrael group. HRW devotes about 85% of its time and resources to blasting Israel. HRW is the same outfit whose “munitions expert”, a fellow by the name of Marc Garlasco, was revealed to have a penchant for wearing Nazi German medals such as the iron cross and for buying and apparently wearing Nazi military uniforms. He didn’t see the problem in wearing the same medals and uniforms worn by men who killed American soldiers. The fact that Covington and Burling would play footsie with HRW says all that needs to be said about these cookies.
Someone needs to stand up in Congress and publicly call Holder and these people out by name and demand an investigation. Continue to press until they crack.
Whoop dey it is! Dey go da Lorna Doones!
Oh yeah.
the doj criminal act lead by the septic tank dweller holder should be investigated and if found to have broken the law should be placed in the big house with brother bubba.
Maybe we need Pelosi here to lecture everyone on “rules” and how to bend and stretch them to meet liberal substandards of application.
Lindsey Graham approves of Holder.
Rogue, the more I look back at recent (1950- Present)history, the more I realize (IMO) that failure of our leaders of fulfill their legal and Constitutional duties is the primary reason we have the situtation we have each and every time we get in an armed conflict.
In an attempt at brvity let me simply state the following:
Consider how things would have worked at home had the President and the Congress done their duty, did the work envisioned by the Founders, and declared war in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (I and II), and the War on Terror.
When that happens, legally, things get REAL black and white in terms of “aid and comfort” to the enemy and the disposition of captured personnel.
Just like immigration and a host of other issues, ducking the Constitution and existing laws by our leaders leads to a convoluted situation.
Why don’t I understand this? We don’t know who — GASP! — provided legal counsel to suspected terrorists, but the attorneys in question have leaked CIA identities?
How can you be “in question” and unknown at the same time?
To be convicted of treason, you have to act with intent of aiding the enemy. This would appear, if true, to be acting with the intent of pursuing a political goal of exposing those who took used an interrogation tactic with which the purported leakers disagreed.
And you know I have to go there, right?
The question is why is the DOJ not releasing the names of these attorneys?
It might be nice to know if these individuals are actually licensed attorneys. Without names they could be lumberjacks for all we know.
You know it is kind of like the sealed academic records of the President of the United States. When you assume a position of responsibility some of your privacy is lost.
And had we declared war the lady’s husband would still be in Levenworth.
Sucks to be you when you cut corners.
Red State Skeptic said:
I would have to answer your first question with – All those Czars!
Your infatuation with dear Valarie not so secret agent:Ever hear of this?
The ACLU’s “John Adams Project”
Weak.
Valerie Plame wasn’t exposed.
Any cover she might have had was simply overlooked.
Did ya ever notice that NONE of the five charges against Libby had anything to do with exposing anyone?
Nailed it. That is exactly what I tell people who can’t reconcile my support for a strong and pro-active military and my objection to all of these “police actions”. War is a very serious undertaking that should involve ALL Americans. I consider it immoral to keep sending troops to war situations with tepid American support and with all kinds of crippling rules of engagement.
If it is not worth the effort of getting Americans behind the war enough to trigger an actually declaration from Congress, it probably isn’t worth going to war over. It leads to long, protracted engagements which, as you know, kills morale across the board. Declare war, fight to win with an all-out effort and end it quickly… like WWII.
Amen, brother. Absolutely a two thumbs up comment.
Best of the day!
Agree.
I got a sick feeling in my stomach when the powers that be (were) failed to declare war in 2001; but, I couldn’t point to any particular document or law as to why I got that feeling…aside from its implying some degree of lack of resolve of the President and Congress.
Having said that, and knowing that the Constitution (remember that document) gives Congress the power to declare war; does the Constitution mention what happens to political power and laws once war has been declared?
Does it anywhere say, “In time of war declared by Congress; this, that, and the other thing changes/happens/may apply/may be done,etc.”?
Or, is it silent on that matter?
What do you mean? The CIA still had her listed as a covert agent.
There is always that 2% that never gets the word.
If the terrorist’s lawyers at the DOJ were the ones who leaked CIA interrogators’ names to the NY Times, then the NY Times would know the terrorist’s lawyers names, right? How much you want to bet that the NYT wont leak that?
There is so much corruption in this administration that I expect it to implode under its own tangles web of lies and deceit.
I stated that any cover she might have had was simply overlooked. I didn’t state that she didn’t have a some lame, tired cover.
In order to expose someone, you have to know that you are actually exposing them.
Just because Libby knew she worked for CIA doesn’t mean he knew she had a cover. You do realize that not every CIA employee has a cover, right????
Libby only told Novak that Plame worked for the CIA to explain why Wilson was picked for the trip to Africa. He didn’t do it to expose her as some stupid act of retribution.
Libby wouldn’t have been charged with anything if he had told consistent stories or if he had remained silent.
Do you really not understand this?
That was the most unconvincing argument I have heard in a long time. For one thing, it’s the freakin’ White House and if they didn’t know VP was covert, they could have – and should have – found out. As a CIA agent, you give a lot to your country that you ca never get back. You assume those at the highest levels of government are not going to expose you to those you have deceived over the course of your career and leave you open to serious retalitation. But the White House was more interested in spinning that Joe Wilson, was only qualified due to nepotism, an argument that doesn’t hold much water in the face fo the fact that he was a career diplomat and former ambassador.
And that’s giving the WH the benefit of the doubt that their real motive was just setting the record straight. Rove telling reporters after the Novak story broke that VP was “fair game” makes it seem otherwise.
What?
If you think someone is an overt employee (which according to many of Plame’s friends, families, and neighbors she was) why wouldn’t you feel comfortable discussing it?
Puleeze. I bet dozens of unclassified documents referenced Plame as a CIA employee.
There’s a reason nobody was ever charged with “outing” her – because she wasn’t outed. Just accept it.
Btw, Joe Wilson may have been qualified, but you can’t claim that his name would have been thrown into the hat if his wife hadn’t been working on the project.
Bottom line no one was even admonished verbally for the “Plame Incident.” There was NOTHING to admonish.
Scooter Libby was charged with lying to a Federal Investigator, not any security violation.
If that is all RSS has then………
The alternative to that is if the POTUS makes some kind of bizarre power grab because of a “crisis.” Don’t put it past him. For our sake, I hope you’re right.
“Rules of Engagement?”
There should be one rule of engagement: “If you are carrying out a lawful order use every available means to utterly destroy the enemy as quickly and efficiently as possible so you can end the war, protect your nation and get home to your loved ones.”
Holder et al should be arrested immediately
***
The U.S.S.R. Communist Party had three big enemies to overcome in order to become the dominant world power–or to take over the U.S.A. The U.S. Military, the F.B.I, and the C.I.A. have always been the targets. Destroying them enables changing our country into U.S.S.R. II–or allows destroying us–and this has always been the foreign statist / marxist / communist goal. Socialism is just the “first step” in this process.
***
Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his congressional ilk are working on this process now–it’s not accidental. Van Jones was no accidental choice.
***
As far as Valerie Plame being a covert agent–this is C**P. The lady lawyer who set up the very narrow definition of “outing” covert agents gave very clear testimony before congress on what conditions had to exist to allow this prosecution. Valerie did not meet the requirements–and actually publicized her C.I.A. agent status. Yes–she worked for them–and she and her husband posed for James bond type photos!
***
John Bibb
***
With this administration and media, the poor critters are working overtime, and then some.
Animal cruelty? (Not that I care…)