and America takes another one in the........
Posted on 03/13/2010 5:03:51 AM PST by ricks_place
Attorney General Eric Holder failed to tell the Senate about seven legal briefs he signed when lawmakers considered his nomination to his current job, according to a letter released on Friday.
Two of the briefs involved appeals to the Supreme Court for Jose Padilla, who sought release from a military prison in South Carolina where he was being held after then-President George W. Bush designated him an "enemy combatant."
Padilla was held in a military brig for three years before his case was moved to a criminal court in Miami, where he was convicted on charges of offering his services to militants.
The Justice Department sent the Senate Judiciary Committee, which vets presidential nominees, a list of briefs that were omitted on Friday. "We regret the omission," Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich said in a letter to the panel.
Holder has been facing intense scrutiny as the Obama administration tries to decide whether to prosecute terrorism suspects like the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in military or criminal courts.
The attorney general had been spearheading that effort but concerns about holding those trials in criminal court forced the White House to intervene and officials are now weighing whether to prosecute Mohammed and four of his alleged co-conspirators in a military court.
Previously, Holder has disclosed to the Senate five briefs he submitted to the Supreme Court during his law practice. From July 2001 until being confirmed by the Senate as attorney general, Holder worked at Covington & Burling in Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
and America takes another one in the........
Impeach Barack Obama.
The sent people to jail for lying to the FBI - Libby and Marion Jones. What do you do when the AG lies to congress?
“Att’y general failed to give legal briefs to Senate”
Soooo what??? Nothing will come of this because he’s a democRAT. Imagine if Gonzaales or Ashcroft did something like this?
hopefuly a brown recluse...
The sent people to jail for lying to the FBI - Libby and Marion Jones. What do you do when the AG lies to congress?
Nothing if he is black. Just like we do nothing when he turned loose the Black panthers for carrying weapons at a polling place.Or just like we did nothing when he stopped an FBI investigation into ACORN.
We is in charge now.
Selective memory. It’s like selective reporting. Lying by half truth.
Brown as in when the schidt hits the fan brown?
I guess I just forgot those briefs.
Get over it, we won.
Sorry, the MSM will sweep this under the rug like all the other “news”. :-(
Maybe not. It’s been in 4 newpapers and Reuters picked it up this AM.
This is about Terrorists and keeping our country safe....BO/Holder may have bitten off too big a chew this time.
I wonder when the bus backs up to the DOJ? Any bet on the timing of that...one more flub by this guy and he will be reading about his resignation in the Walpo some Saturday morning soon.
Other threads that have appeared since the 4:00ish Friday dump:
Holding Holder In Contempt
Washington Times ^ | March 12, 2010 | Editorial staff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2470032/posts?page=1
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DOJ: Holder Omissions Wider Than Thought
Fox News ^ | March 12, 2010 | Mike Levine
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2469886/posts?page=25
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Att’y general failed to give legal briefs to Senate
Reuters ^ | 3/12/2010 | Jeremy Pelofsky & Todd Eastham)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470179/posts
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More Holder briefs acknowledged (Pro-terrorist ‘BriefsGate’)
Politico ^ | 3/12/10 | Kasie Hunt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2469940/posts
If it continues to build this weekend in spite of the Friday afternoon dump, I’d say by the time he gets to his little meeting with the congressional judicial committee, he be about ripe.
We still need to see a transcript of his confirmation hearing to see if he perjured himself.
bttt
Hoosier,
Wouldn’t it be the Justice Department via the Atty General be the one who would file charges in a case like this?
Even if he did commit perjury during his confirmation hearings couldn’t he simply plead the 5th and refuse to investigate himself?
Even if that is too far fetched, who in their right mind working at Justice could do an independent investigation of Holder know how prone he (not to mention this Admin) is to using Chicago politics?
Holder is the Justice Dept Executive branch of government..
CHeck RE: CHeney being brought before the House Justicial committee...same process, except Holder cannot claim executive priveledge because he wasn’t in office when the “crime” occurred.
Justice dept is required to turn it over to the DC court system who are required to form a Grand Jury to investigate.
CHeck and Balance system at work.
Other article of FR explain. If you haven’t found it by the time I get back from church I’ll find it for you.
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