Posted on 03/15/2010 4:15:14 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
The CIA and Justice Department are fighting over a secret investigation into a controversial program by legal supporters of Islamist terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay that involved photographing CIA interrogators and showing the pictures to prisoners, an effort CIA officials say threatens the officers' lives.
The dispute prompted a meeting Tuesday at CIA headquarters between U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald and senior CIA counterintelligence officials. It is the latest battle between the agency and the department over detainees and interrogations of terrorists.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. angered many CIA officials and Republicans in Congress by reopening an investigation last August into whether CIA interrogators acted illegally in questioning senior al Qaeda detainees.
According to U.S. officials familiar with the issue, the current dispute involves Justice Department officials who support an effort led by the American Civil Liberties Union to provide legal aid to military lawyers for the Guantanamo inmates. CIA counterintelligence officials oppose the effort and say giving terrorists photographs of interrogators has exposed CIA personnel and their families to possible terrorist attacks.
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The muslim president and his muslim communist lacky’s are destroying our Nation... and the media helps in ever facet of their attack.
LLS
Ping!
As you read this story, keep in mind that Holder & Company dont care about American security or American lives. They dont care about the families of the Americans doing the interrogating. They dont care about the well being of America. They are slime, scum and sewer licking rats of the lowest order.
There was an excellent article in this morning’s WSJ by Debra Burlingame and Thomas Jocelyn on the “habeas” attorneys (among them, the ones that Holder wants to appoint) and the disgraceful ways they undermined US security and procedure in dealing with their AQ darlings.
ok so we can’t know who is providing legal defense to the terrorists but the terrorists get pictures of CIA agents.
Just another log on the fire that Obama is building to burn down this nation.
enemy within
Attorney General’s Duplicity Overlooked by Media Cheerleaders
By Jim Kouri Sunday, March 14, 2010
In 1999, Eric Holder helped arrange Bill Clinton pardons for 16 unrepentant members of FALN who had been convicted of “a variety of charges that included conspiracy, sedition, violation of the Hobbes Act (extortion by force, violence or fear), armed robbery and illegal possession of weapons and explosives—including large quantities of C-4 plastic explosive, dynamite and huge caches of ammunition.”
More and more Americans are discovering that the Obama Administration’s definition of transparency is more Clintonian and semantic than it is honest and encouraging.
The latest embarrassment for the Obama White House is the discovery that Attorney General Eric Holder has been less than forthcoming about his activities prior to being appointed U.S. Attorney General.
Justice Department officials have admitted that when members of the U.S. Senate—including Judiciary Committee members—were considering the nomination of Eric Holder as President Obama’s attorney general last year, he failed to disclose all of the legal briefs he had written or signed from his time in private practice especially those briefs that are pertinent to his current positions and views during the so-called war on terrorism.
“Holder has now decided to be open and transparent with the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his lapse remembering to turn over copies of his legal filings, including Amicus briefs on behalf of detained terrorists and enemy combatants,” said Mike Baker, political strategist and private practice attorney.
“Holder also used the oldest trick in the book: he made his official statement on a Friday afternoon during a busy news cycle,” Baker said.
“As part of Holder’s confirmation process, a list of legal briefs to the committee was turned over to senate staffers,” he said. And the list turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee did not include filings in about seven cases.
The issue of Holder’s past legal papers came up after some Republicans asked why lawyers who had previously done legal work for terror detainees now had jobs in the Justice Department, something President Barack Obama successfully avoided discussing, and something conveniently overlooked by a Justice Department now saturated with Holder colleagues whose work records show they defended terrorism suspects and ‘Gitmo’ detainees.
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http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20965
“”U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald “”
YEAH! He’ll be on the side of the CIA....Ask Scooter Libby...
Liz Cheney was accused of engaging in McCarthyism for accusing some of the Gitmo lawyers of disloyalty to the nation.
I think the lady was on solid footing.
“The dispute prompted a meeting Tuesday at CIA headquarters between U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald and senior CIA counterintelligence officials.”
I think this is the same AG Patrick J. Fitzgerald of the Plame-Game fame?!?!?
Now he is among the Justice Department officials siding with the ACLU lawyers over Gitmo detainees????
Meanwhile, where are his investigations of the hoodlums in Chicago that had money ties to Bama?? There is been silence on them since the crowing of the king.
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