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Posts Tagged ‘Eric Holder’

• What Holder Failed to Disclose to the Senate

  Posted March 11th, 2010 at 1:24pm in Protect America, Rule of Law with 1 comments

  After President Barack Obama nominated Eric Holder to be Attorney General, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent Holder a questionnaire that required him to provide copies of any briefs he had filed with the Supreme Court. Holder told the Senate he had participated in a total of five such briefs and that none of them dealt [...] More

• Sanity Slowly Dawning on White House Detainee Policy

  Posted March 5th, 2010 at 4:42pm in Protect America, Rule of Law with 6 comments

  When Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he intended to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other terrorists  in a civilian court in New York City rather than in a military tribunal, we here at The Heritage Foundation condemned it as “A Historically Bad Decision.” It may have taken the Obama administration four months to [...] More

• Mukasey Ends Obama’s Miranda Misinformation

  Posted February 12th, 2010 at 5:30pm in Protect America with 3 comments

  The Obama administration has been excoriated by Democrats, Republicans, and the media for their myopic, irresponsible, potentially dangerous, and amateur handling of Failed Flight 253 Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Refusing to acknowledge the reality of their failure, the Obama administration has instead chosen to make a series of fantastic claims that have no basis in [...] More

• Playing the Numbers Game With Terrorism

  Posted February 5th, 2010 at 5:08pm in Ongoing Priorities, Protect America with 7 comments

  The Obama Administration’s preference to treat terrorists as mere criminals, and not as hybrid enemy combatants to be tried in military commissions, has been made crystal clear. The Administration boasts that the United States has successfully prosecuted hundreds of terrorists in federal court in the past, and as such, we should continue to use federal [...] More

• Morning Bell: When Did the American People Elect Eric Holder Commander in Chief?

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 9:24am in Protect America with 10 comments

  Following weeks of strong bipartisan criticism of their handling of terror trials and detainees, Attorney General Eric Holder released a letter yesterday defending the Obama administration’s criminal justice system approach to prosecuting the war against al-Qaeda. Defending his administration’s handling of the Flight 253 terrorist, Holder wrote: “I made the decision to charge Mr. Abdulmutallab with federal [...] More

• McConnell Takes Aim At White House Terror Spin

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 2:41pm in Protect America with 0 comments

  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) today swung hard against a public-relations campaign by the Obama Administration to clean up its tattered image over its handling of the war on terrorists, and especially Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. In a major address at The Heritage Foundation, McConnell gave a point-by-point refutation of all of the administration’s [...] More

• Morning Bell: It Is Time To Prioritize Security Over Terrorist Rights

  Posted January 29th, 2010 at 9:46am in Protect America with 70 comments

  Yesterday, the White House ordered the Department of Justice to begin considering places other than New York City to host the civilian criminal trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorists. The New York Times describes a decision to move the trials out of New York as “a retreat by the administration” and [...] More

• Federal Court Fines Obama Administration for Lack of Transparency

  Posted January 7th, 2010 at 11:32am in Rule of Law with 16 comments

  For the last nine months, the Justice Department has been stonewalling requests for more information about its dismissal of the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther party. The department has denied requests for information about the case from newspapers and members of Congress, and is refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the U.S. [...] More

• Injustice at Justice; Voting Rights Chief Sent South

  Posted December 29th, 2009 at 5:17pm in Rule of Law with 15 comments

  The Washington Times is reporting today that the career chief of the Voting Section at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Christopher Coates, is being removed and sent to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Charleston, South Carolina, for 18 months. This is significant for many reasons, but specifically because he was the chief [...] More

• Mr. Attorney General, Where Would You Put Osama bin Laden?

  Posted November 19th, 2009 at 6:36pm in American Leadership, Protect America, Rule of Law with 27 comments

  In today’s Morning Bell, we wrote about the historically bad decision Attorney General Eric Holder made in announcing that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other terrorists would be tried in a civilian court in New York City rather than before a military tribunal. Edwin Meese III, the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman [...] More