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Defend America on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:01:10 PM
GOP presses Holder on Justice's terrorism policies
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
February 2, 2010
To
Charles Grassley, a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary
Committee, the questions seem pretty simple. How many of the political
appointees now in charge of terrorist detainee issues at the Obama
Justice Department were, not too long ago, lawyers and activists
working on behalf of those very detainees? Who are they? Have they
removed themselves from cases involving their former clients?
The questions are particularly critical now, as Attorney General
Eric Holder struggles to find a place to hold the trial of accused 9/11
mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. If Holder goes ahead with a KSM
trial somewhere in the United States, we’ll likely see other Guantanamo
inmates being tried on the mainland, too. “It’s a dangerous thing to
bring them here,” Grassley says. “But if they’re coming, I want to know
who made the decision, and when the decision was made, and I want to
make sure that it’s being made by people who have independent judgment
and don’t have a foregone conclusion about it.”
So far, Grassley is having a hard time getting the information he
wants. His problems started on Nov. 18, 2009, when Holder appeared
before the Judiciary Committee and Grassley asked him to reveal which
department lawyers had represented which detainees. Grassley is still
waiting for an answer.
“He said something like, ‘I have to think about it,’ ” Grassley
says. “He must still be thinking about it two and a half months later.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/GOP-presses-Holder-on-Justice_s-terrorism-policies-83301922.html