Posted on 08/28/2009 8:16:59 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
This is an administration that is determined to conduct itself by the rule of law. And to the extent that we receive lawful requests from an appropriately created court, we would obviously respond to it.
It was springtime in Berlin and Eric Holder, a well-known rule of law devotee, was speaking to the German press. Hed been asked if his Justice Department would cooperate with efforts by foreign or international tribunals to prosecute U.S. government officials who carried out the Bush administrations post-9/11 counterterrorism policies. The attorney general assured listeners that he was certainly open to being helpful. Obviously, he said, we would look at any request that would come from a court in any country and see how and whether we should comply with it.
As the Associated Press reported at the time, Holder was pressed on whether that meant the United States would cooperate with a foreign court prosecuting Bush administration officials. He skirted the question in a way Americans ought to find alarming. The attorney general indicated that he was speaking only about evidentiary requests. Translation: The Obama administration will not make arrests and hand current or former American government officials over for foreign trials, but if the Europeans or U.N. functionaries (at the nudging of, say, the Organization of the Islamic Conference) want Justices help gathering evidence in order to build triable cases count us in. (snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
I don’t think everything is hidden; his hatred of white folk seems pretty apparent.
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Hue and cry followed Holders decision this week to have a prosecutor investigate CIA interrogators and contractors. The probe is a nakedly political, banana republic-style criminalizing of policy differences and political rivalry. The abuse allegations said to have stunned the attorney general into acting are outlined in a stale CIA inspector generals report. Though only released this week a disclosure timed to divert attention from reports that showed the CIAs efforts yielded life-saving intelligence the IG report is actually five years old. Its allegations not only have been long known to the leaders of both parties in Congress, they were thoroughly investigated by professional prosecutors not political appointees. Those prosecutors decided not to file charges, except in one case that ended in an acquittal. As I outline here, the abuse in question falls woefully short of torture crimes under federal law.
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I believe the explanation lies in the Obama administrations fondness for transnationalism, a doctrine of post-sovereign globalism in which America is seen as owing its principal allegiance to the international legal order rather than to our own Constitution and national interests.
As a result, there have always been serious concerns that the ICC could investigate and try to indict American political, military, and intelligence officials for actions taken in defense of our country. Here its crucial to bear in mind that the United States (or at least the pre-Obama United States) has not seen eye-to-eye with Europe on significant national-security matters. European nations, for example, have accepted the 1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, while the United States has rejected it. Protocol I extends protections to terrorists and imposes an exacting legal regime on combat operations, relying on such concepts as proportional use of force and rigorous distinction between military and civilian targets. That is, Protocol I potentially converts traditional combat operations into war crimes. Similarly, though the U.S. accepted the torture provisions of the U.N. Convention Against Torture (UNCAT), our nation rejected the UNCATs placing of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment on a par with torture. By contrast, Europe generally accepts the UNCAT in toto.
And the transnational Left has still another treat in store: its notion of universal jurisdiction. This theory holds that individual nations have the power to prosecute actions that occur in other countries, even when they have no impact on the prosecuting nation. The idea is that some offenses such as torture and war crimes so offend the purported consensus of humanity (i.e., so offend left-wing sensibilities) that they may be prosecuted by any country that cares to take the initiative. In fact, many countries (the United States included) open their justice systems to civil suits against government officials again, even if the country where the suit is filed has nothing to do with the alleged offenses.
Black liberation theology.
Black power.
The Man (whitey) been keeping us down (yeah, like I/we owned a plantation in South carolina until last year, LOL)
Time to turn the tables. Time to git those blue-eyed white debils.
This administration IS transparent, though not in the way they said it would be.
Rush is RIGHT, as usual.
We really have terrorist running our country.
Will Pres. Bush and VP Cheney and others be extradited?
I believe if you see this administration going after and prosecuting the prior administration and people whose responsibility it was to protect and defend this country against enemies foreign and domestic, there will be such an outcry like you wouldn’t believe. The revolution has already started across the country and if this administration starts prosecuting them, come election time no democrat would even be elected dogcatcher except in hard core far left commie districts. They’d lose by a landslide.
One of the chief qualifications for 0bama's "key" advisors.
I believe Holder apprenticed under Janet Reno in the Clinton years.
I’m still waiting for a Waco or Elian Gonzales type event to show the citizens who’s in charge.
Those who maintained that Obama is not some wacko leftist are finding it harder and harder to explain The Great Spreader’s latest moves. Everything he’s been doing has been to the far left. Look at his appointees. Solid grade-A Marxists all of them. I hope Obama goes forward with his phony prosecutions. This will bring him down faster.
Holder was and is and will always be the Clintons butt boy!!
His strategy is not to prosecute here but give the European ‘World Court’ evidence that they can use to prosecute and request extradition. He’ll hide behind the laughable smokescreen that he’s not the one prosecuting.
Holder's lynching mobs
Temember the movie “The Black Gestapo”? Well now we have it leading our country.
I always had a negative view of the KKK, but after seeing 0bama and Holder’s tactics with the Black Panthers, I can fully understand at least one reason why it was formed.
He has been warned that there will be no more “Free” Wacos this time around.
Maybe we should all send bananas to Eric Holder.
I hate his more than he hates me, that he can be sure of. They are all disgusting.
The people have the perfect right to liberate themselves from Marxist oppression when it is violating individual natural rights
“We really have terrorist running our country.”
However disguised in ‘sheep’s clothing’ he tries to appear to be.
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