Eric Holder responded to Republicans’ criticism of the way he managed the Abdulmutallab case in a letter today.
In it, he wrote that, “There is no court-approved system currently in place in which suspected terrorists captured inside the United States can be detained and held without access to an attorney; nor is there any known mechanism to persuade an uncooperative individual to talk to the government that has been proven more effective than the criminal justice system.”
If that is indeed the case, then we have got some serious problems beyond those that the great Charles Krauthammer described earlier. Basically, what Eric is saying is that if Osama bin Laden himself showed up in New York City, and decided to have a Big Mac at McDonald’s, posing no immediate threat, and the Justice Department showed up, they’d immediately Mirandize him and provide him with a court appointed attorney, because we currently don’t have a “known mechanism” to detain him. What in the holy hell???
Um, there’s a reason people think Obama’s administration is useless with respect to national security.
GAWD.
As the saying goes “We don’t need no stinking Court approved system for terrorists”
Our criminal justice system is for criminals.
Our military systems are for enemies of the country. Terrorists, suspected or otherwise have to be treated as enemies of the united States and not as citizens who may have broken a law. Leave it to our military and stop helping our enemies. Who’s freaking side are these idiots on. It appears the wrong one.
I have a serious problem with the incompetence of Holder, and we have bigger problems than that. The Justice Department should not be crossing paths or making policy for the intelligence Community nor the military, EVER!
This really reminds of the KGB crossing over the Russian military, or the SS interspersing the German military. Not good, and really creepy.
Furthermore Eric Holder was not elected CIC. So what is Obama doing anyway, beside bloviating all of the time.
Well, we do have this little thing called the Constitution. And no matter how much we “feel” like we shouldn’t follow it, we are bound to do so.
Yeah Pink…except he isn’t following it.
In what part of this case was the Constitution not followed?