Bloodthirsty Liberal

Even the DoJ is going (Islamic) green!

The Justice Department has announced the release from Gitmo of a terrorist who conspired to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in the 2000 Millennium plot. Hassan Zumiri, who was part of an al-Qaeda affiliated terror cell in Montreal, has been repatriated to his native Algeria — a country so rife with terrorists that it was recently placed on the list of 14 countries whose travelers warrant enhanced screening at airports. Worse, the Justice Department won’t say whether the terrorist, Hassan Zumiri, and another Gitmo detainee who was also sent to Algeria will be in custody there. They may be free and clear.

Hey, maybe we castrated him first. Here’s hoping.

Ahmed Ressam, the main culprit in the Millennium Plot who later cooperated in the investigation, told authorities that Zumiri “knew I was going to America to carry out a job.” Zumiri, the Globe and Mail reports, helped Ressam in the bomb plot, “giving him $3,500 and offering a video camera to carry as ‘camouflage.’ Mr. Ressam also said he asked Mr. Zemiri to find him a pistol, silencer and grenades.”

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At the Standard’s blog, Tom Joscelyn has more on Zumiri and on the other Gitmo detainee transferred to Algeria, Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili. As Tom shows, relying on disclosures at Hamili’s detention proceedings at Gitmo,

Hamlili is a particularly nasty takfiri, which means he is a hardcore ideologue who believes that not only Christians and Jews, but also most Muslims, are infidels. In fact, Hamlili allegedly killed Osama bin Laden’s personal representative in Pakistan because Hamlili felt he had violated sharia law. Despite this incident, memos produced at Gitmo note that Hamlili worked for the Taliban, al Qaeda and a variety of other terrorist groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Sure, why wouldn’t we clear these two guys for release? And to Algeria!

President Bush’s detractors accused him of “creating” terrorists. With his joy-stick crazy drone strikes, maybe President Obama is, too. He and his despicable AG Eric “The Red” Holder sure as heck are recycling them.

I’m big enough to admit when I’m wrong.

I’ve been critical of President Obama and AG Holder for their imbecilic idea of trying KSM and a few of his closest friends in civilian courts, thereby offering them the full range of rights and privileges extended to American citizens by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights—or to withhold and subvert those rights, thereby disemboweling the precious and irreplaceable US justice system.

But I’ve been wrong.

Now that I see KSM & Co. intend to use this show trial to put on a show their own—a real barn-burner, too—I’m down with it. Dancing virgins, pyrotechnics, contortionists, and bearded ladies—it’s got box office boffo written all over it!

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but “would explain what happened and why they did it.”

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Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain “their assessment of American foreign policy,” Fenstermaker said. “Their assessment is negative,” he said.

Really? After all we’ve done for them? Ingrates. Maybe they’d rather do their jail time in the Maine State Prison’s Supermax unit, rather than the cozy Caribbean coast of Guantanamo. Maine is lovely in the summer, all five weeks of it.

But I don’t think they’re going to have to worry about that. I think they’re going to get off. If I were on the jury, I’d hold out for not guilty until they dragged my bullet-ridden corpse out of the jury room.

Three thousand people died because of KSM, and I’ve mourned them in this space, but many times that have died in the defense of liberty. I hate miscarriages of justice, and any government that has behaved so appalingly prejudicial toward those who are now presumed innocent until proved guilty won’t get any help from me.

In fact, I suggest KSM and his merry men read up on the trial of the Chicago 8. You want to know how to turn the courtroom into the big top, Abbie Hoffman, peace be upon him, is your man. He was a Jew, Khalid, but your kind of Jew.

Here’s a taste to whet your appetite, boys.

To add to Aggie’s post below, I just have to pass on what Rush observed today: that KSM and his fellow jihadis have already admitted to their guilt, confessed without coercion in open court, and asked to be martyred for their crimes.

So why the dog and pony show?

Easy. The terrorists aren’t on trial. We are. Bush is. This production is supposed to be an Andrew Lloyd Weber extravaganza for the legions still under the influence of Bush Derangement Syndrome: it might as well feature cats on roller skates in the Paris Opera House.

The defendants won’t be the Islamic fascists, but instead a chorus line of Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and enough high-kicking CIA agents to fill Radio City Music Hall.

If any of the terrorists is even put on the stand it will be only to tickle them with a feather duster.

“After you slit Daniel Pearl’s throat, Mr. Mohammed, did you yourself receive brutal and inhuman treatment by having a wet washcloth placed over your mouth and nose? I’m sure it must have been positively beastly.”

I can only hope and pray that by their base appeal to the unreconstructed Stalinists in our population (Hello, Cambridge! Hiya, Seattle!) with this obscenity—plus so many others—this party of traitors and their leader, Baradict ArnObama, will be turned out into the cold by the rest of the country.

Obama’s health care plan is getting counseling from a “death panel”, and we start hearing of CIA “atrocities”. Anybody else think there’s a coincidence?

Team Obama may be ruthless and as unfamiliar with decency as they are with the surface of Venus—but they ain’t dumb.

U.S. Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), U.S. Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other senators today sent the following letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in response to his decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate CIA officials who interrogated al Qaeda terrorists:

“We are deeply disappointed by today’s announcement that you have chosen to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate CIA officials who interrogated al Qaeda terrorists. As we explained to you in a letter dated August 19, 2009, reopening those cases—which career prosecutors have already determined do not warrant criminal prosecution—could, among other things, have a chilling effect on the work of the intelligence community.

“We believe that the concerns raised in our letter warranted, at a minimum, careful consideration and a reasoned response. Instead, you moved forward without responding to our concerns or discussing with a coordinate branch of government the potential national security consequences that may result if the intelligence community is operating against a backdrop of prosecutions. The handling of this important issue calls into question your confirmation hearing commitments that you would establish a ‘full partnership’ with Congress and that you ‘recognize that congressional oversight and judicial review are necessary, beneficial attributes of our system of government.’

Yadda yadda.

This isn’t really that hard to understand: Obama’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t producing much more than a record number of body bags; his anti-terrorism policies so resemble Bush’s they recall the intelligence tests that challenge you to find the difference between two seemingly identical pictures; the best that can be said of his economic stimulus package is that it temporarily staunched the hemorrhaging—its most popular initiative, Bucks for Buckets (Lira for Lemons?), literally bribed people to buy new cars; he has suggested he might go both left and right on his health care plan.

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Wouldn’t you appoint a special prosecutor? To investigate school lunches, the designated hitter, Paula Abdul—anything to distract the public and appease your rabid followers? Aggie pointed out the other day the Rasmussen poll that shows Obama’s haters now routinely outnumber his idolators by double figures. The man needs a piñata, and he needs it now, national security be damned.

We have become such a strange country: now, the mere presence of a power drill and the sound of a gunshot from the next room are evidence of monstrosity. The terrorists we catch and interrogate would think nothing of slitting Shirley Temple’s throat, and we think they are scarred by a Black & Decker cordless?

Whatever. If it were me, I’d put the gun on the table, and run the power drill in the next room—now, that would be disturbing—but that’s why I’m a bloodthirsty liberal.

Doesn’t it just figure that this administration would get bitch-slapped by the US Commission on Civil Rights?

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding that the Justice Department explain why it recently dismissed a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year’s election, saying the department has offered only “weak justifications.”

Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, said he fears the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case might encourage “other hate groups” to act similarly at polling locations in the future.

Mr. Reynolds also charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.

“If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different outcome,” he told The Washington Times in a telephone interview Monday.

OH BABY!

The civil right to vote without fear of intimidation and violence is so important that the Commission was created in reaction to a long history of violations of it. It’s literally their raison d’etre. As Reynolds notes, it matters not who intimidates whom; the federal government has the duty to enforce those laws regardless of who benefits from the intimidation. Otherwise, the rule of law means nothing.

He really is the perfect post-racial president. No one else could take a big steaming dump on the civil rights movements and get away with it.

But Yes He Did.

When Eric Holder notoriously said we are a nations of cowards on race, he knew whereof he spoke.

He was talking about himself.

Place: Philadelphia—Date: November 4, 2008:

UNIDENTIFIED MALE BLACK PANTHER MEMBER: I’m just wondering why everybody’s taking pictures, that’s all.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE WITH CAMERA: Okay, I mean, I think you might be a little bit intimidating that you have a stick in your hand. That’s why.

BLACK PANTHER MEMBER: Who are you to decide?

MAN WITH CAMERA: I mean, that’s a weapon. So that’s why I’m a little worried.

BLACK PANTHER MEMBER: And who are you to decide?

MAN WITH CAMERA: I mean, I am a concerned citizen. I’m just worried that you might be-

BLACK PANTHER MEMBER: So are we.

MAN WITH CAMERA: Okay.

BLACK PANTHER MEMBER: So are we. That’s why we’re here.

MAN WITH CAMERA: Okay, but you have a nightstick in your hand.

BLACK PANTHER MEMBER: So what?

MAN WITH CAMERA: I mean.

BLACK PANTHER MEMBER: You’ve got a camera phone.

MAN WITH CAMERA: I have a camera phone, which is not a weapon.

Charges were filed, the Panthers declined to respond, we expected justice to be done. Instead, we get this:

Charges Against ‘New Black Panthers’ Dropped by Obama Justice Dept.

I guess there was nothing there.

This man begs to differ:

On Friday’s The O’Reilly Factor on FNC, host Bill O’Reilly interviewed liberal civil rights attorney Bartle Bull about the Justice Department’s recent decision to drop charges against Black Panther members who engaged in voter intimidation in Philadelphia polling place last November. Bull – who worked for both Robert F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter – was an eyewitness to some of the intimidation, and charged that Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision not to pursue the case was “100 percent politically motivated.”

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BARTLE BULL, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: I’m an old liberal.

O’REILLY: Attorney?

BULL: I would say a John Kennedy Democrat. And I was a civil rights lawyer in Mississippi for a time. And I am a liberal.

O’REILLY: And that’s interesting, because you are leading the charge here against these Black Panthers. Now what did you see yourself on election day? What did you see?

BULL: I saw two armed uniformed threatening men blocking the door to a polling place, screaming rudeness at voters.

O’REILLY: What was their intent?

BULL: I can’t answer for what was between their ears.

O’REILLY: Well, what were they screaming, though?

BULL: I heard, well, one of them, for example, screamed, “Now you will see what it is like to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”

O’REILLY: Okay, did they have their Black Panther regalia on?

BULL: They wore jack boots, black boots, black combat boots, black paramilitary uniforms, black berets.

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O’REILLY: And the federal government, the U.S. Attorney filed charges against three people. Now the charges have been dropped. Now we called Holder’s office. And they said, here’s what basically, this is not a quote, ladies and gentlemen, but here’s basically what they said: It’s just not big enough for us, it’s not that important, we’re letting it go. And you say what?

BULL: I think it’s extremely important. I’ve worked in very difficult campaigns in Mississippi. I worked for Charles Ables when he ran for governor as the first black man. I was a civil rights lawyer in Hattiesburg who got arrested there practicing civil rights law. I worked against Strom Thurmond in South Carolina. I have never in my life, and I’ve seen nooses over trees outside polling places where I stopped voting in Mississippi. I have never, ever seen anyone blocking the door to a polling place with a weapon and yelling at people.

When the Panthers declined to respond to the charges, they were as much as admitting guilt: the government had to do nothing. The “not-worth-our-time” argument, shocking in its indifference to voter intimidation, is also patently false.

So what’s the real reason?

O’REILLY: So they didn’t do it. Why?

BULL: Why? Well, you haven’t mentioned one thing. You said there were three defendants. That’s not true. The first defendant was the New Black Panther Party itself which has been called a hate organization by the Anti Defamation League and by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The critical thing here wasn’t whether these two or three guys were enjoined. It was enjoining the party which has 28 chapters around the country.

O’REILLY: All right, that’s interesting.

BULL: So what they’ve done here is they’re protecting the enforcement of what this party might have done. And it’s going to give them a lot more authority in the next election, in the congressional election.

O’REILLY: I’m not sure about that, but why doesn’t Holder want to go after this whole scenario? Why doesn’t he want to make examples of these people?

BULL: Because these are his supporters, partly.

O’REILLY: You really believe it’s politically motivated?

BULL: 100 percent, 100 percent-

O’REILLY: -because the New Black Panthers is so fringe and so, you know.

BULL: 100 percent politically motivated.

O’REILLY: Really?

BULL: Absolutely.

O’REILLY: You believe that?

BULL: Yes.

O’REILLY: See, that would be something a Rush Limbaugh would say.

BULL: Well, I’m not a Rush Limbaugh.

I wouldn’t be too sure about that, Bartle:

BULL: We’re making judgments. We don’t know it, but the fact is that they want to maximize their vote. This is basically ACORN vote that they want to … the next election..

O’REILLY: This gets tied in with ACORN?

BULL: I didn’t say that. I said what they want to do is to maximize the ACORN vote. And you do that by not challenging this sort of procedure, because these are the same people who are registering voters. Also, “The New York Times”, for example, said hundreds of thousands, one-third of all ACORN board voters were fraudulent last time.

O’REILLY: Right. All right, so you see it as a bigger picture
BULL: Oh, of course, of course.

O’REILLY: -don’t interfere with the community activist group?

BULL: Of course.

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BULL: I believe that President Obama owes the country an apology for this. And I will say why briefly in an sentence.

O’REILLY: But he didn’t have anything to do with it.

BULL: He appointed Eric Holder. And the president said four or five weeks ago that he believed that we should prosecute civil rights cases vigorously. And he’s really talking about the ones who are on his side. I mean, if I may say, Martin Luther King did not die to have people in jack boots with billy clubs, block the doors of polling places.

O’REILLY: Absolutely.

BULL: And neither did Robert Kennedy. It’s an absolute disgrace.

Millions of voters like Bartle Bull believed that in electing Barack Obama, they were healing the wounds of the assassinations of MLK and RFK. Obama knew that, and channeled it to his advantage. And this is how he repays those voters—by defecating on the hallowed memory of those slain leaders.

I’m sorry I missed this one. I heard a brief report on the radio of Eric Holder denying this would happen—but I misheard him (or he “misspoke”):

A large federal security operation is in place to keep tabs on several Guantanamo Bay inmates who may soon be released in Virginia, the Daily News has learned.

A half-dozen ethnic Chinese detainees known as Uyghurs will be flown by marshals from the U.S. naval base in Cuba to live in the Washington suburbs if lingering legal, logistical and political problems are ironed out, government officials said Thursday.
Some lawmakers and counter-terror officials worry about terrorists living next door. Northern Virginia was chosen because it has an Uyghur Muslim community that could help the ex-prisoners adjust.

“The potential release into the U.S. … takes us into uncharted waters,” a counterterror official told The News.

Yeah, I’d say so.

You can see for yourself what Eric “We Are All Cowards Now” Holder’s denial amounts to:

But no final decisions have been made and the process of moving the prisoners would likely start “in the next few months,” he said.

“Paramount in our concern is the safety of the American people,” Holder said. “We are not going to put at risk the safety of the people of this country.”

That’s simply untrue. Obama himself told the CIA in no uncertain terms that the safety of the American people comes in at least second place, after adherence to some sort of unspecified code of behavior. If that makes the spooks’ jobs harder, and means we might not catch all the terrorist plots we otherwise might have, well, greater love hath no man than to die for this president.

If industry execs can have there arms twisted and their ears boxed to give up control of their own businesses, what chance do you seriously think you have of stopping a trained terrorist from moving into the house next door? You’d have ACORN on your doorstep before you could say “undocumented Uighur”.

Thank God there are at least a few adults left in government:

While Holder was testifying, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation that aims to stop the world’s most dangerous terrorists from being imported into the United States from Gitmo — or anywhere else. Dubbed the Keep Terrorists Out of America Act, the bill would prevent the transfer or release of terrorists into the United States unless governors and state legislatures were to preapprove such relocation into their respective jurisdictions.

In announcing the legislation, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said: “There are still terrorists around the world who are committed to killing Americans and destroying our way of life. A number of those terrorists are now being held at a prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba… If the administration proceeds… they won’t be there. In fact, they may be here, in the United States.” He then said, “We invite our colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join us, because our constituents don’t want these terrorists in their neighborhoods.”

I can see the signs now—NUNA: No Uighurs Need Apply.

I keep waiting for the tipping point when Obama’s hubris and radical agenda for this country finally turn off enough people to solidify the opposition—but it hasn’t happened yet. If outrages like this won’t do it, I’m not sure anything will.

Haditha: not guilty.

Abu Ghraib: guilty of first-degree pantying.

Blackwater: I’ll believe the prosecutions when I see them.

Scooter Libby: sentence commuted.

Waterboarding: not guilty.

The Obama administration released four Bush-era memos on terror interrogations Thursday.

Also on Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder said that CIA officials will not be prosecuted for waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics that had been sanctioned during the Bush administration.

The memos, written by a top Justice Department lawyer, provided legal guidance to the entire executive branch, including the intelligence agencies, on permissible “enhanced interrogation techniques” that could be used against suspected terrorists taken into custody.

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Officials who used the controversial interrogation tactics were in the clear if their actions were consistent with the legal advice from the Justice Department under which they were operating at the time, Holder said.

“It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the Justice Department,” he said in a statement.

Gee, I thought it might be because waterboarding was used maybe three times—and achieved its goal of providing vital information necessary to save lives. Why prosecute a case on which no juror would vote to convict? But I take my good news as it comes, so rarely does it come.

I can only imagine the anguish and pain in the hearts of lefties out there.

You thought Obama would bring you the head of George Bush on a pike—some of you more literally than others—and time after time your hopes have been dashed, your dreams unfulfilled.

How do you soldier on? (Sorry, bad choice of words for you.) Do you need a hug? Aggie and I want you to know we’re here for you.

What would you expect from a two-faced president but double-talk?

To protect national security, the president must have the authority to detain anyone who, in his judgment, is helping the enemy. And anyone means anyone: It matters not if such suspects “have not actually committed or attempted to commit any act of depredation or entered the theatre or zone of active military operations.” If the president’s unilateral authority to detain were “limited to persons captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan,” this would “unduly hinder both the President’s ability to protect our country from future acts of terrorism and his ability to gather vital intelligence regarding the capability, operations, and intentions of this elusive and cunning adversary.”

You’re probably thinking the quotes above reflect the world according to Dick Cheney, David Addington, John Yoo, or some similar Bush-era incubus. In fact, they describe — with words drawn directly from Eric Holder’s Justice Department — the Obama administration’s official guidance on enemy combatants. The Obama administration won’t lower itself to call these terrorist captives “enemy combatants,” notwithstanding that they are part of the “enemy” the administration concedes is conducting “battle” against us in the “war” he admits we are in.

We haven’t had a Democratic president so dishonest with language since… the last one: it depends on the meaning of the words “enemy” and “combatant”.

I understand they’re going to close Guantanamo and open a new detention facility in its place. No re-building, no rehab; just a name-change. Goodbye Camp X-Ray, hello Prophet’s Retreat.

Hey, speaking of Clinton, while we’ve been distracted by AIG, look who’s been cashing in:

Former President Bill Clinton has severed his connections to Ronald Burkle’s Yucaipa Cos. and will not receive a payment once estimated to be up to $20 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The Journal said Clinton decided not to claim additional money from Yucaipa earlier this year.

It said people familiar with the matter had thought last year that the payment could have been as much as $20 million. However, the size of the possible payment might have fallen because of the recent economic turmoil.

Well, it shouldn’t be too hard to find out. Hillary got the gig on the promise of complete transparency with regard to her no-account husband’s shady business dealings. Right?

Right?

Hello?

While some called for an immediate repudiation of Attorney General Eric Holder’s despicable remarks that we are a “nation of cowards” on the issue of race, President Barack Obama displayed his cool head (cool in all ways!) and steely nerve by waiting 18 days even to bring the issue up.

What a man:

“I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language,” Mr. Obama said in a mild rebuke from America’s first black president to its first black attorney general.

In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, the president said that despite Mr. Holder’s choice of words, he had a point.

“We’re oftentimes uncomfortable with talking about race until there’s some sort of racial flare-up or conflict,” he said, adding, “We could probably be more constructive in facing up to sort of the painful legacy of slavery and Jim Crow and discrimination.”

That’s the whole friggin’ point, Mr President!!!

There’s more to the discussion than Jim Crow, as much of a stain as that disgraceful painful legacy left on our nation.

What about the painful legacy of black crime and drug use? Or the painful legacy of fatherless black children? Or the painful legacy of urban blight? These are complicated issues, and very painful to be sure, but where were they in your catalog of painful legacies?

You would have used different language from your AG’s? Doesn’t sound like it to me. Sounds like the same guilt-inducing, victim-playing palaver I’ve heard since I was in short pants.

Since you guys are about lecturing and not listening, I’ll put someone else’s thought is writing:

Stephan Tawney on the American Pundit blog, said that “our attorney general is black, both major parties are led by black men, the president is black.”

“And yet,” Mr. Tawney wrote, “we’re apparently a ‘nation of cowards’ on race.”

After Holder said what he said, I happened to be taking the Bloodthirsty Puppy for a walk through a local cemetery. I stopped at the section holding the remains of Civil War veterans and asked the fellas if they agreed. I was especially eager to hear from the Donovans, Kennedys, and McCarthys straight off the boat from Ireland who fought and died for a race they may never have actually seen. How did they take to having died to help bring about a nation of cowards.

Their silence spoke volumes.