Posted on 09/19/2009 10:17:48 AM PDT by jazusamo
The WaPo reports that, having finished with the grandstanding and puffery, Attorney General Eric Holder's investigation into the already-investigated detainee abuse cases is narrowing and winding down.
Beyond the obvious problems - in addition to demoralizing the CIA they are investigating the foot soldiers, not the generals who ordered the policy - it turns out that technicalities of law, jurisdiction and evidence make prosecutions and convictions difficult. That is hardly a surprise to the rest of us, but apparently it is news to Holder, who did not read the reports explaining the decisions not to prosecute before reopening the investigations:
Before his decision to reopen the cases, Holder did not read detailed memos that prosecutors drafted and placed in files to explain their decision to decline prosecutions. That issue has rankled GOP lawmakers and some career lawyers in the Justice Department, who question whether Holder's order was made based on the facts or on his political instincts.
But a government source asserted that Holder was briefed on some of the details by advisers and that the attorney general was troubled by the material he read. Authorities have not pointed publicly to new evidence or witnesses that would strengthen the cases under review.
Wow. And great tagline.
The entire edifice of 0bama and associated leftist thugs needs to be dismantled. Or cleaned out like the vermin that they are. They mean to entirely destroy all that is still good about America (and the world). Money, power, crime and leftist ideology is total story.
People dont have basic necessities and they waste their time on this.
Makes me sick.
Incompetence.....or something else?
I do not think orders from Obama are necessary. Things are understood at that level. The rot is very deep.
I suspect he wants to interrogate CIA people to find out what they have on him.
It did not have the effect they wanted.
Holder is a moron. Lawyers can be as stupid as anyone else, and often are, but they’re at least supposed to be able to read and assimilate information. But not Holder - he’s too busy calling the rest of us racist cowards.
Doesn’t it do your heart good to know that such an amateur is running the DOJ?
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