Holder Failed to Disclose Detainee Briefs on Policy (during Senate confirmation hearings)

NY Times ^ | 3/11/10 | CHARLIE SAVAGE and BERNIE BECKER

[jimbo123]

During his confirmation last year, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. failed to notify the Senate that he had signed several briefs urging courts to reject President George W. Bush’s claim that he had the power to imprison an American citizen as an “enemy combatant,” the Justice Department acknowledged Thursday.

The briefs should have been disclosed as part of the confirmation process,” said Matthew Miller, a Justice Department spokesman. “In preparing thousands of pages for submission, it was unfortunately and inadvertently missed. In any event, the attorney general has publicly discussed his positions on detention policy on many occasions, including at his confirmation hearing.”

But at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held the confirmation hearing, Republicans signaled that they were likely to attack Mr. Holder over his joining the briefs — and his failure to list them, along with other public documents, on a routine confirmation questionnaire — when he testifies before them later this month.

[SkyDancer]

"Holder Failed to Disclose Detainee Briefs ...."

Should I say it? Someone's gotta say it ....

[reefdiver]

That will be a big “so what”

[muawiyah]

Come January, less than 10 months away, Eric can be dragged before a Republican chaired committee and grilled for hours until he is nothing but a crispy critter.

[Danae]

Oh ho ho! LMAO, this is priceless.....

Ok so Holder is supposed to be the guy who decided that the GITMO murderers should be tied in NYC in a civilian court... and threatened to investigate CIA personnel....

Yet he is also the guy who "failed to notify the Senate that he had signed several briefs urging courts to reject President George W. Bush’s claim that he had the power to imprison an American citizen as an “enemy combatant,” the Justice Department acknowledged Thursday."

LOL ok follow me a moment....

You don't mean to say that Holder LIED to congress in his confirmation hearings? NO! NO!? That can't possibly be....(feigns shock)

[Diogenesis]

What is the big deal?
This is a field day for terrorists.

Any incriminating documents from the Hearings - bingo.
First, DNC’s Burger will steal them.
Then, DNC’s Holder will protect him
(if he is not too busy protecting
some other killer of Americans somewhere somehow),
and finally DNC’s Obama can pardon the him and the rest.

[Danae]

Its something that might get Holder kicked to the curb.

[jaz.357]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

if the GOP has the stones...

[muawiyah]

They will.