Posted on 11/13/2009 4:56:52 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Holder vows Gitmo defendants will not be released in the U.S. By Susan Crabtree - 11/13/09 04:31 PM ET
Attorney General Eric Holder has pledged not to allow the release of dangerous detainees in the United States if they are found not guilty in federal court or if their case is thrown out on a technicality.
Holder made the assurances in a written response to a question posed by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) obtained by The Hill. The 55-page document provided answers to questions from several senators on the Judiciary Committee in advance of a Wednesday oversight hearing on Justice Department policies and practices.
“Where we have legal detention authority, as the President has stated, we will not release anyone into the United States if doing so would endanger our national security or the American people,” Holder wrote. “There are a number of tools at the government’s disposal to ensure that no such detainee is released into the United States, all of which are currently being reviewed by the Special Interagency Task Force on Detention Policy...”
Holder repeatedly dodged that question in a Friday briefing with reporters regarding the announcement that 10 of Guantanamo’s most high-profile terrorist suspects would be tried in U.S. courts. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as KSM, the self-described mastermind of the attacks, along with four suspected accomplices now held at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, will be tried in a civilian court in Manhattan, Holder said.
When asked how the administration could assure family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that the suspects would not be let go or exonerated on a technicality and be set free, Holder did not respond directly. Instead, he expressed confidence that the prosecutions would be successful.
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Gee, that's...........comforting.................
For every one of those terrorists they’re bringing to New York from Gitmo, there will be ten radicals that Holder knows nothing about.
So even if he’s telling the truth about the Gitmo detainees, who protects New York from their ten each fellow travelers?
Either the Democrats are unqualified to lead, or they are very qualified and working for the other team.
Either way, they must go.
When this POS opens his mouth, I just automatically assume he is lying. Can I make that assumption?
He’ll release him to a hero’s welcome in the Middle East.
Everyone that believes anything Holder says, raise their right hand. Or respond with the reason[s] you believe him.
If it were the former, they'd do something in America's best interest every once in a while by accident.
That leaves the latter.
This statement is good until his next speech at a CAIR fundraiser.
I’d suggest checking with the FALN terrorists who were pardoned by Clinton through the efforts of Eric Holder on this one.
Of course, if they’re released into the middle east, they’ll probably just open up a hookah bar and we’ll never hear from them again. Or maybe they’ll just regroup and start plotting their next move against civilization.
So it’s a show trial. Comforting.
If these guys get off on a technicality, there will be a march on Washington that dwarfs anything they’ve ever seen. That, I believe, would be the final straw.
what he is saying is when they are acquitted the Obama administration (with your tax dollars) will pay to fly these terrorists back to Pakistan. What a crock.
hey holder thats no the real point. the real point is why you are doing this.
This is all about politics.
Coming from the guy who asked the question.... whats the difference between a Democrate and a Republican? NOTHING!
Comes a new question, whats the difference between these criminals in DC and the gitmo terrorists? NOTHING! They are both waging war on the American people!
He’s already preparing us for the fact that he and his boss expect them to be released on a technicality. That was the whole point of this.
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