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Eric Holder: Osama bin Laden won't be brought in alive
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Posted on 03/16/2010 5:13:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Holder: Osama bin Laden won't be brought in alive By: Josh Gerstein March 16, 2010 05:28 PM EDT

Attorney General Eric Holder told a congressional panel Tuesday that the question of reading Osama bin Laden his Miranda rights is absurd – because he won’t be brought in alive.

“Let’s deal with reality,” Holder said. “You’re talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. We will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Obama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That’s the reality….He will be killed by us or he will be killed by his own people, so he’s not captured by us. We know that.”

Holder’s comments came during a hearing where Holder and a Republican congressman debated whether bin Laden and notorious killer Charles Manson deserved the same legal rights.

During a House appropriations subcommittee hearing, Holder invoked Manson to counter Republican arguments that the administration wanted to stage civilian trials that would give alleged 9/11 plotters the same Constitutional rights afforded to the average American.

“These defendants, many of whom are charged with murder, would be treated just like any other murder defendants,” Holder said with evident exasperation. “The comparison….the question is: Are they being treated the way any other murderer would be? They have the same rights Charles Manson would have.”

While Holder thought the Manson comparison would make Americans feel more comfortable with the idea of civilian trials for terrorism suspects, Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) disagreed and sensed an opening.

“Osama bin Laden, in your opinion, has the same rights as Charles Manson?” a dubious Culberson asked.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; binladen; elvisbinladen; holder; israel; liarslie; lyingliar; niceshootingtex; saudiarabia; waronterror; wishfulthinking
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To: basil

Barry said that he would capture Bin. Film at 11.


21 posted on 03/16/2010 5:32:34 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Its the same with Holder. We will never have to read HIM his Miranda rights either.
22 posted on 03/16/2010 5:34:17 PM PDT by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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To: marron
Holder is admitting that he has no business being AG.

My opinion exactly... and for the reasons that you stated. He's AG, not CENTCOM. He doesn't get to make those decisions, but he must be prepared if circumstances hand him OBL alive & on a platter. He's admitting he has no policy worth spit concerning the trial of an enemy mastermind.

23 posted on 03/16/2010 5:35:12 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: donna

Is there a difference between Holder being hired by Osama or being hired by Obama?? The names and their actions and Hatred for America seem to differ very little...:-)


24 posted on 03/16/2010 5:36:47 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Isn't Mister Holder's rhetoric generally proposing what is on the same par as what some Marines in Iraq were accused of, (and were quickly vilified by congressional Dems and the "news" media)?

And isn't this "Cowboy" speak? You know, "Bring 'em on", (ironically, from an ineffectual administration that extends apologies and deadlines as a means of projecting weakness)?

.

25 posted on 03/16/2010 5:37:34 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Sub-Driver

Since Bin Laden is already dead and has been for years I think Holder is on to something.


26 posted on 03/16/2010 5:38:53 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Sub-Driver
“Let’s deal with reality,” Holder said. “You’re talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. We will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden.

Will this officially make Osama bin Laden a Corpseman?

27 posted on 03/16/2010 5:40:55 PM PDT by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Bin (part/son of) La (not) Din (prounounced ‘deen’)

Last 3 words of the sura of the ‘Clot’ that is Sura #1.

So, ‘not of those who have gone astray’ (as in a purist of the faith).

So, Slaughter Deem might be a variation of the proununciation, no? to Bin La Deem the passage of health care? The words we need to hear are being spoken to a different audience.


28 posted on 03/16/2010 5:42:32 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: Sub-Driver

That’s because the pri** is already dead, and has been for years, anyone who thinks otherwise has no brain or is incapable of using it.


29 posted on 03/16/2010 5:43:42 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Sub-Driver

Its ok to kill him, just don’t waterboard him.


30 posted on 03/16/2010 5:47:53 PM PDT by tirednvirginia
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s dead Jim.


31 posted on 03/16/2010 5:48:48 PM PDT by culpeper (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people,)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is what affrmative action and political correctness get you....


32 posted on 03/16/2010 5:52:46 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Nobody's 'bot!!)
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To: combat_boots

Bin = son
La = to, for
Din = judgment.

Son of judgment.


33 posted on 03/16/2010 6:01:00 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: tobyhill

If I were an Obama administration official, I’d sure as hell be looking at a way to avoid giving credit to the Bush administration for taking out Bin Ladin. Holder’s statement reeks of setup for the story they’ll eventually be using.


34 posted on 03/16/2010 6:16:49 PM PDT by Eroteme
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To: Jack Hydrazine

OK.

Bin = Ben in Hebrew
I learned la as a negative, as in la illh’u’llah’u’la. “There is no god but God.” etc.
Din as ‘judgment’ gone astray/judgment. OK.

They’re still the last 3 words. Din as judgment works well into the English ‘Deem’, too, since’s it’s unilateral.


35 posted on 03/16/2010 6:52:46 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: Sub-Driver
“Let’s deal with reality,” Holder said. “You’re talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. We will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Obama bin Laden.

So...let me see...Holden, all of a sudden, possess the uncanny ability to foresee the future, while in his own words he does not deny the possibility of reading the Miranda to bin Laden.

Beam me up Scotty!

36 posted on 03/16/2010 7:04:21 PM PDT by danmar (Life is hard enough, even harder if you're stupid! John Wayne)
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To: danmar
the corpse of Obama bin Laden.

Should have noticed it...Dammit!

37 posted on 03/16/2010 7:11:30 PM PDT by danmar (Life is hard enough, even harder if you're stupid! John Wayne)
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To: tirednvirginia

Well! Waterboarding is obviously Torture since every Greek Fraternity and Sorority does it to their Pledges, at least to a Lib’s sick demented mind, but its fine in their mind if a Jihadist cuts off Our Citizen’s Genitals, then their arms and tongue while raping them because obviously they wouldn’t do it unless we must have looked crosseyed at them or something. Reverend Wright, OBOZO, and Farrakkon have made that painfully clear to all of us good honest Americans!


38 posted on 03/16/2010 7:21:26 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This statement is tantamount to asserting that the government of the United States will santion Bin Laden’s assination. They screeched about this for decades. Duplicitous bastards.


39 posted on 03/16/2010 7:46:42 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: Sub-Driver

Because Osama is already dead and has been for many years.


40 posted on 03/16/2010 9:46:24 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrats, stuck on stupid.)
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