Posted on 05/18/2011 9:09:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
Five leading Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pressing Attorney General Eric Holder on whether he intends to use the federal civilian court system to prosecute an alleged Hezbollah operative linked to Iran, according to a letter from the senators to Holder obtained by Fox News.
The letter, dated Monday, reads in part: "We are deeply concerned that the administration and the Department of Justice are moving forward with plans to prosecute Ali Mussa Daqduq in federal court for clear violations of the laws of war that occurred in Iraq."
Holder, after reluctantly agreeing to send other high-profile terror trials to military tribunals at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, now faces a similar debate about the Daqduq case.
“It's certainly an important case, it's certainly a test case, it's certainly a case that that might set a precedent,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told Fox News.
Click here to read the letter.
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“Five leading Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee”
That is so loaded with oxymorons.
Since when has anyone in the Obama administration been interested in anything Americans think or want?
Good point. The Obama thugs started out not caring and they’ll finish up not caring.
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