Eric Holder: Patriot?

Does anybody actually trust US Attorney General Eric Holder?  Is everyone aware that he was instrumental in the President Clinton pardon for Marc Rich?  Who was Marc Rich?  He was a millionaire charged in 1983 with 65 counts of tax fraud, and then fled to Switzerland before he could be convicted.  He was represented by Jack Quinn, former Clinton White House Counsel, who ignored all pardon protocols and went straight to Eric Holder, who ran the Pardon Office.  And yes, he was pardoned by President Clinton even though he had not gone thru any of the usual pardon process and it is extremely rare that a fugitive get a pardon.

 

Mr. Holder was also instrumental in the pardons of 16 Puerto Rican terrorist, four of which were convicted in the $7.2 million robbery of a Harford bank.  Contrary to normal process, none of these terrorists applied for a pardon!  They were presented for pardons by Eric Holder.  Hell, they even refused the pardon when first offered because they thought it was a trick.  But Holder convinced them to take the pardon.  It is noteworthy that none of the bank robbers were pressed by the Justice Department to reveal the location of the never found $7.2 million from the bank robbery.

 

The LA Times reported that Eric Holder actively sought to stop opposition to President Clinton's pardon of the 16 terrorists.

Prior to his nomination to AG, Eric Holder was employed by the WashingtonDC law Firm Covington and Burling.  They represent 16 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  The following is from their web site: http://www.cov.com/probonooverview/probono.aspx?show=morehighlights

 

“We represent sixteen men detained at the United States Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.  Most of the men have been detained for approximately seven years.  None have been charged with any crimes, and none have been accorded the protections of the Geneva Convention.  In Boumediene v. Bush, 128 S. Ct. 2229 (2008), where we were co-counsel for eleven of the detainees, the Supreme Court held that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus extends to detainees held at Guantánamo Bay.  Following that decision, we have been preparing for habeas corpus hearings to be held in federal district court Washington, DC, for eleven of our clients.

The firm has been involved in the Guantánamo related litigation for the last five years.  In addition to the on-going habeas corpus proceedings, our efforts have included: bringing cases for review of enemy combatant classification decisions in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005; challenging the destruction of CIA torture tapes in federal court; filing amicus briefs and coordinating the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006); filing amicus briefs in support of Supreme Court review in Moussaoui v. United States, 382 F.3d 483 (4th Cir.), cert denied, 544 U.S. 931 (2005); challenging the government’s practice of redacting information from documents given to security-cleared habeas counsel; and challenging the abusive medical and living conditions that the detainees experience at Guantánamo”.

 

Hmm…So how does one go from representing detainees rights and trying to get them freed to the US Attorney General, charged with prosecuting them?

Does anybody remember last election and the videos of the members of the Black Panthers patrolling polling stations in black uniforms and carrying night sticks? 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html

The New Black Panther Party was charged with voter intimidation by the Bush Justice Department.  None of the defendants filed any response to any of the charges.  The case was won by default!  Then, in May the Obama Justice Department, headed by Eric Holder dropped all charges against all defendants. 

In summary, Eric Holder was instrumental in the pardons of tax evaders and terrorists, dropped charges of voter intimidation against members of the New Black Panther Party –AFTER THE CASE WAS ALREADY WON, represented detainees at Gitmo, is investigating the CIA, FBI and Military interrogators of the detainees at Gitmo, and now is bringing the mastermind of the attack on 9/11 back to New York to be tried.

The 5 detainees charged with the attacks on 9/11 have already said they are guilty in writing and on video and pleaded to be executed (martyred).  What could possibly be gained by giving them constitutional rights and access to our justice system? 

I believe there are several reasons for this.  Who do you believe will receive the millions of tax dollars it will take to defend these five monsters?  I am willing to bet it will be the AG’s old law firm of Covington and Burling. 

Secondly, it will be the perfect opportunity to expose the CIA, FBI and Military personnel who participated in the “torture” of these detainees.  And it is easy to see how much Holder really wants to prosecute these people who did an extremely difficult job.

I believe that Eric Holder will do everything he can to expose every means by which we collected intelligence, even at the jeopardy of our national security and the lives of the people charged with that.

It is difficult to comprehend the reason for all of this.  But he is playing an extremely dangerous game of cat and mouse with the security of our nation.