Holder on hot seat at Senate Judiciary Committee

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing this morning with corruptocrat AG Eric Holder. C-SPAN is streaming it live here.
Holder should have worn an Olympic gymnast’s outfit. After boasting last month that bin Laden would be killed and that he’d be reading Miranda rights to his corpse, Holder now says capturing him remains his preference and goal.
Speaking of flip-flops, Keep America Safe notes that while Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein expressed support for the KSM civilian trial this morning, she was lambasting Holder’s NYC trial plans in January.
Democrat Sen. Russ Feingold keys off Feinstein for more suck-uppage on Holder’s Gitmo civilian trials plan: “Continued strength on your continued actions on this regard.”
On closing Gitmo, Holder vows “We will close” it, but he doesn’t know when.
The civilian trials for Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other high-value Gitmo detainees is still “not off the table” — and he tells the panel that he has an alternate list of trial locations.
Do tell, Mr. Holder.
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10:37am Eastern. Sen. Grassley presses Holder on refusal to disclose names of political appointees at DOJ with national security conflicts of interest/previous representation of detainees. Pressing Obama on lack of transparency. Notes that while Fox News obtained the names, Holder did not produce the names directly in response to Grassley’s request.
Yes or no: Will you disclose those names to me?
Holder decries [Keep America Safe] ads questioning conflicts of interest. “I will not allow these kids” to be dragged through the mud. “I will not be a part of that.” Invokes John Adams.
In other words: The answer is no.
Grassley moves on to lack of a central database to keep track of recusals like private law firms have. “Why shouldn’t the DOJ have some centralized system of conflicts [tracking] as private firms have?”
Holder: “That is something we can consider at the Department.”
Duly noted.
Grassley continuing to grill Holder on joke of transparency and lack of FOIA responses to the public.
“I can assure you the president is sincere and I am sincere.”
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Not sure who is worse. This jack*ss or obuma.
The obvious question to ask Holder is whether you will consider it a failure if Osama Ben Laden is convicted but escapes the death penalty. And it is important to make him answer the question directly. Instead, Holder dances around and does his Apollo 13 imitation: “Failure is not an Option”. Then Holder should be asked if it is true that in the federal courts, one vote out of 12 precludes the death sentence imposition. Then he should be asked whether the Justice Department will have the taxpayers pay for Ben Laden to have specialized death penalty lawyers for any death penalty phase. If so, how much will it cost? Who will select these death penalty specialists? In all probability, these will be ACLU lawyers of NAACP Legal Defense lawyers. If so, will the taxpayers pay for these lawyers’ meals, transportation, investigators, etc. We know that Tim Mcveigh’s lawyers traveled all over the world ostensibly doing “research”. That research just happened to be in nice climates.
malkin_fan said:
They are one cheek each of the south end of a horse traveling north.
Republican senators blindingly rushed in to confirm Holder despite repeated warnings are solely responsible for all these blunders.
So the president is sincere and Holder is sincere? Who cares? A rapist is sincere, as is a blackmailer and robber. They sincerely want to harm you and take your money. Sincerity counts for little. They are sincerely wrong.
Where in the world are they supposed to get 12 impartial jurists? That to me seems to be the obvious question. Most anyone knows KSM is guilty, and anyone who says he isn’t has an agenda.
So now the DOJ is hiring little kiddies? I guess they can’t do any worse… As a matter of fact, kids seem to have a pretty good understanding of right vs. wrong. I’m guessing the DOJ “kids” have a little more trouble with that differentiation.
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Chestnuts roasting over and open fire … What are you supposed to do when all you got is lies and more lies.
Holder is a greasy syncophant who has the qualifications of an uber-clerk. Much like his boss. A slick saleman in an Italian suit.
“Do or, do not. There is no “sincere.” —-Yoda, 2010
A Department of Justice of which Stalin could be proud. If you are my peeps, you get justice, otherwise you get hammered. More people gave up their U.S. citizenship in the first quarter of 2010 than in 2008 or 2009. Can you say atlas shrugging?
Eric Holder, setting affirmative action back decades.
Seriously, who is looking out for this nation’s security?
Obama signs away our rights to a strong self-defense in a one-sided treaty w/ Putin’s Russia and touts an abysmal nuclear summit as a triumph while Holder bestows Constitutional rights on captured enemies.
Wow. Grassley actually came up with that?
Unfortunately, it’s a day late and a dollar short.
Where were these types of questions during the Holder nomination.
*crickets*
What was the mantra during the Nuremberg trials? Oh yea, I was just following orders. And that will be his excuse when all of this comes crashing down, literally. His boss bows and capitulates to those we know will take out another couple of highrises (or an entire city)if given the chance. It’s not IF but WHEN.
Oh shucks! When I read the lead in I thought you meant Holders on Old Sparky. Hope does spring eternal.
I love the way government employees seem to forget things a lot. Forgot to pay taxes; forgot to submit documents prior to confirmation. Lying and forgetting should not be a qualification for public service.
He really said that?
Laugh of the day so far!
What an utter jackass. “Sincere” does not the borders enforce.
…he clarified today that what he meant to say was that Rahm Emanuel was going to slap bin Laden with a dead fish (in violation of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Fish) and then dance a ballet on his grave – or in the absence of the death sentence, in front of his cell. “That’ll show him” Mr. Holder declared, “and you can bet that I’m as sincere as the President.”
Holder: “I will not allow these kids” to be dragged through the mud.”
However, he WILL allow Black Panthers to break the law to intimidate whitey at voting stations.
Like the Bush Administration Justice Department lawyers that gave legal opinions on water-boarding were dragged through the mud (and worse) by the Left?
Wassamatter? Can dish it out but can’t take it?
Grassley, also voted to confirm Holder. He’s already received my “I Told You So” letter.
Sincere?
The guy trying to sell you a toothbrush with only two bristles is sincere.
How about a little honesty?
Holder will be paying a visit to a Queens junior high school, where someone I know is a teacher. I told her that she should suggest the auditorium would be a great place for the KSM trial.
An after-school special for the ages.
Feh.
#9
What’s the matter with LIBS to-day?!