De-Fund Holder’s Manhattan Transfer

Ex-White House counsel Greg Craig thought it was a good idea to transfer Elián Gonzalez from the arms of his loving family in Miami into the arms of Fidel Castro. Transfer Elián from Florida to Cuba. Bad idea. Attorney General Janet Reno thought she might have to prove her toughness by transferring dozens of women and children from a Waco cult headquarters to eternity. Really bad idea.

But Eric Holder’s plan to transfer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from Guantánamo Bay to Manhattan for a civilian trial is perhaps liberals’ worst idea in years. KSM and his cohorts had agreed to plead guilty before a military tribunal, accept a sentence of death, and speedily rendezvous with their 72 ladies-in-waiting.

This offer of an efficient way out for the administration was not good enough for Attorney General Eric Holder. He insists on trying the terrorists before a civilian jury in federal court, just a few hundred yards from Ground Zero. Next to martyrdom and a free trip to paradise, this has to be the terrorists’ wildest dream.

No turbaned genie ever appeared out of Aladdin’s lamp to grant three greater wishes than these. KSM to Genie: One, I want to exploit my status as mass-murdering terrorist; Two, I want to inflict even greater pain and suffering on the families of those thousands whom I’ve murdered; Three, I want to make my trial a magnet for my brother jihadists throughout the world.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Branch Dividians, Dred Scott, Elian Gonzales, eric-holder
Posted Dec 1st 2009 at 10:37 am in Justice/Legal, News, Obama, Politics, Uncategorized | 3873853 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kenandken/2009/12/01/de-fund-holders-manhattan-transfer/De-Fund+Holder%27s+Manhattan+Transfer2009-12-01+17%3A37%3A20Ken+Blackwell+and++Ken+Klukowski

Another Obama Gitmo Official Resigns: Who is Accountable Now?

Earlier this month President Obama fired Greg Craig, his main counsel on matters concerning the Guantanamo Bay Facility. And this week Obama sheds another one of his GITMO team with the resignation of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Detainee Policy, Phillip Carter.

It appears that Obama’s GITMO team is being systematically eliminated. One has to ask, why? The only real answer has to be that Obama is setting up some plausible deniability by firing or forcing the resignation of officials involved with GITMO policy. Once enough of these people are gone, Obama can look wide-eyed to the public and claim that he was badly served by his GITMO advisers and, therefore, it isn’t his fault.

Unfortunately for Obama the failure is not with the staff but with the chief himself, Obama.

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Tags: Attorney General, civilian terror trials, detainee policy, eric-holder, Gitmo
Posted Nov 28th 2009 at 12:33 pm in Defense, Justice/Legal, Obama | 3760665 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2009/11/28/another-obama-gitmo-official-resigns-who-is-accountable-now/Another+Obama+Gitmo+Official+Resigns%3A+Who+is+Accountable+Now%3F2009-11-28+19%3A33%3A53Warner+Todd++Huston

Internment, CSI and Eric Holder’s Disarming of America

According to the American Historian Will Durant, “Animals claw each other to death, men consume each other by due process of law.”  And with that sentiment in mind, it is easy to see why the Obama Administration has made one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history.

Of course, I am talking about the decision to try terrorists for “crimes” in New York City in a criminal court using the laws of our land.  Let us count the ways this decision is beyond negligent; it is a gross dereliction of duty:

1.  An Unprecedented Act Providing A Terrible Precedent.  Throughout our history, we have treated enemy combatants as those committing an act of war.  That is so because (a) they are not US citizens, and (b) their acts were acts of war.  In other words, they were not criminal acts of a US citizen committed during peace time.  Now however, Obama has allowed at least one enemy combatant to be tried in a US criminal court subject to the constitutional laws of our country.

Here is what logically can flow from that legal precedent, keeping in mind that the first right granted is never the last:

a)      Other enemy combatants will claim that they are not being treated “separately but fairly,” that they too have a right to due process, and so they will claim that they have a right to tried in a US criminal court as well – effectively ending military tribunals; and

b)      Thereafter, enemy combatants will not only make use of our appeal process, they will also claim that they have a right to sue in our civil courts for any claimed “civil rights” injustices as a result of the process by which they were captured, detained and/or questioned – regardless of any existing laws to the contrary which they will claim are  – you guessed it  – unconstitutional;  and

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Tags: Barack Obama, criminal courts, eric-holder, internationalism, military tribunals
Posted Nov 19th 2009 at 7:51 am in Culture, Defense, Justice/Legal, Obama | 3346676 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2009/11/19/internment-csi-and-eric-holders-disarming-of-america/Internment%2C+CSI+and+Eric+Holder%E2%80%99s+Disarming+of+America2009-11-19+14%3A51%3A36Thomas+Del+Beccaro