Comments on: Over the Shoulder… Bolder Holder

By: Mighty Skip

Mighty Skip — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:55:35 +0000

This whole thing is so f—ed up it makes my brain hurt.

A special thanks to Mike, because after reading Floyd’s post I didn’t think I could feel worse but that just about did it.

By: fritz8945

fritz8945 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:14:06 +0000

R 3.0, you forgot one other thing Michelle most likely said to him at the end of that dialogue: BTW what’s with that look you gave that trollop while you were at the G8?

By: Kevin S

Kevin S — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:01:13 +0000

And with Alcee Hastings’ HR bill in place, they’ll have some handy camps to place those wicked wicked Bush people…oh, and as many other wicked traitors as they can find. You know who you are, you climate haters, change haters, hope haters, whatever Obama is thinking haters. And you will not be able to hide behind all of these avatars for long.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:01:40 +0000

Eric Holder’s former law firm, Covington & Burling, represents some of the detainees at Guantanamo.

From a Washington Times editoral:

A deal is in the works to send Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Saudi Arabia, but don’t ask the attorney general about it.

Executive Order 13493 on Jan. 22 appointed Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. co-chairman of the Special Task Force on Detainee Disposition, the interagency group charged with determining the status of persons captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations. But according to Justice Department regulations, Mr. Holder is required to recuse himself from certain detainee matters because his law firm represented the detainees.

The Legal Times reported in March that there are more than a dozen such conflicted lawyers at the department. This includes five of the top 10 officials in the department, including the attorney general; Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden; Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli; Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Tony West; and Lanny A. Breuer, chief of the Criminal Division, who, like Mr. Holder, hails from the firm Covington & Burling LLP.

Covington’s detainee work has caused the firm some embarrassment. The firm’s David H. Remes made headlines in 2008 by removing his pants at a news conference in Yemen to protest what he said were inappropriate body searches. He left the firm shortly thereafter. Former Covington attorney Marc D. Falkoff represented Kuwait-born Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi and included poetry written by the inmate in an anthology he co-edited in 2007: “Poems From Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak.”

Mr. Falkoff described the poets as “gentle, thoughtful young men” whose verse was free of hatred. As Debra Burlingame reported in the Wall Street Journal, Abdullah was released in 2005 and next heard from in a martyrdom video posted on an al-Qaeda Web site celebrating his suicide truck bombing of an Iraqi Army compound in Mosul. This gentle poet killed 13 soldiers and wounded 42 others in the attack.

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:08:00 +0000

Here’s what I see going on with this:

Obama: Holy crap! I’ve been in office six months, and I’m still following Plan Bush on damn near everything, except the economy, and I’m gearing up for yet another war, and my stupid idiot screaming maniac of a party is starting to complain about this.”

Michelle: Have you talked to Hillary about this?

OBAMA & MICHELLE: [laugh in unison]

Obama: Thanks, honey, I needed that [wipes mirthful tear from eye], but seriously, the left-coast loonie wing is getting antsy.

Michelle: What? Turning the US in to the largest socialist country in the world didn’t help?

Obama: No, surprisingly not. They felt it was owed them anyway…

Michelle: Damn!

Obama: I know, right? Lousy fruit loops…

Michelle: How about this – how about you launch an investigation in to alleged war crimes on the terrorists? That serves no useful purpose other than to hurt the previous administration and make them look even worse in retrospect, right? And yet no matter the outcome, it doesn’t matter *at all*

Obama: That’s great! I’m totally going to do that! It’ll distract them from the actual useful workings of government by inflaming their hate, and it’s not nearly as much of a pain in the ass as converting to the metric system would be. Thanks, honey!

Michelle: Shhhh! Kings is coming back on!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:24:22 +0000

Its funny to have a person charged with defending the Constitution and Americans more concerned with scum sucking goat eating fanatics who want to kill Americans. People Eric Holder loves Terrorists. But he hates you. Hows that feel? Nice huh? And if he feels that way about us, what does that say about that piece of putrecence that is his boss? Awesome huh?

By: Kit

Kit — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:20:36 +0000

I NEED TO FIND A SCANDAL!!! I NEED ONE IN ORDER TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS A HERO!!!