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Defend America on Friday, November 13, 2009 3:40:32 PM
Holder's Hidden Agenda, cont'd . . . [Andy McCarthy]
This summer, I theorized
that Attorney General Eric Holder — and his boss — had a hidden agenda
in ordering a re-investigation of the CIA for six-year-old alleged
interrogation excesses that had already been scrutinized by
non-partisan DOJ prosecutors who had found no basis for prosecution.
The continuing investigations of Bush-era counterterrorism policies
(i.e., the policies that kept us safe from more domestic terror
attacks), coupled with the Holder Justice Department's obsession to
disclose classified national-defense information from that period,
enable Holder to give the hard Left the "reckoning" that he and Obama
promised during the 2008 campaign. It would be too politically
explosive for Obama/Holder to do the dirty work of charging Bush
administration officials; but as new revelations from investigations
and declassifications are churned out, Leftist lawyers use them to urge
European and international tribunals to bring "torture" and "war
crimes" indictments. Thus, administration cooperation gives Obama's
base the reckoning it demands but Obama gets to deny responsibility for
any actual prosecutions.
...
Moreover, KSM has no defense. He was under American indictment for
terrorism for years before there ever was a 9/11, and he can't help
himself but brag about the atrocities he and his fellow barbarians have
carried out.
So: We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for
defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for
their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put
the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media)
spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence. That is what
is going to happen in the trial of KSM et al. It will be a soapbox for
al-Qaeda's case against America. Since that will be their "defense,"
the defendants will demand every bit of information they can get about
interrogations, renditions, secret prisons, undercover operations
targeting Muslims and mosques, etc., and — depending on what
judge catches the case — they are likely to be given a lot of it. The
administration will be able to claim that the judge, not the
administration, is responsible for the exposure of our defense
secrets. And the circus will be played out for all to see — in the
middle of the war. It will provide endless fodder for the transnational
Left to press its case that actions taken in America's defense are
violations of international law that must be addressed by foreign
courts. And the intelligence bounty will make our enemies more
efficient at killing us.
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