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2010-02-19 Fifth Column
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Holder admits nine Obama Dept. of Justice officials worked for terrorist detainees
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 HT to AOSHQ
Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.
In a just society lawyers would be sanctioned for this sort of unethical conduct ...
Holder's admission comes in the form of an answer to a question posed last November
| Asked in November, answered in February. The mills of Justice grinding slowly, and all that. On the other hand, they've been distracted by the process of discovering that they really can't try their pet Gitmo detainees in mainland Federal courts. So we'll see how much benefit they get from the nine Xtra Kewl kids, seven of whose identities will no doubt soon be discovered. |
by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley. Noting that one Obama appointee, Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, formerly represented Osama bin Laden's driver, and another appointee, Jennifer Daskal, previously advocated for detainees at Human Rights Watch, Grassley asked Holder to give the Senate Judiciary Committee "the names of political appointees in your department who represent detainees or who work for organizations advocating on their behalf...the cases or projects that these appointees work with respect to detainee prior to joining the Justice Department...and the cases or projects relating to detainees that have worked on since joining the Justice Department."
In his response, Holder has given Grassley almost nothing.
I'd say he's given us plenty
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Posted by Frank G 2010-02-19 16:20||
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