Andy McCarthy and I have both been looking at Attorney General Eric Holder’s latest effort to defend in a letter to Mitch McConnell the administration’s handling of the Christmas Day bomber. McCarthy sums it up:The fundamental problem with the attorney general’s line of argument is that it unfolds as though there were no war and no president. Abdulmutallab, Holder believes, is just like any other person arrested in the United States: When an arrest happens, government officials automatically employ “long-established and publicly known policies and practices.” It does not matter who sent the person or what he was arrested trying to do. Miranda warnings are given, lawyers are interposed, charges are filed, and trials are conducted. Even if the nation is at war, we don’t inquire into whether the arrested person is an operative dispatched here by hostile forces to commit mass murder.
Aside from the sloppy legal work by Holder (including citing cases that have been since overturned by the Supreme Court), it is curious to see that the Obami are now retreating to the defense that “Bush did the same thing”
Saturday, February 06, 2010
The Left Defends Itself By Claiming to Follow the Bush Rules
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For an administration that said it was going to do things SMARTER than Bush, it is amazing that they would use the "Bush did it too" defense time after time.
Telling us that Merandizing the Underwear Bomber worked because he is now singing, is wonderful news. All we have to do is make sure the next homicide bomber that attacks
America has a father that knows he's a loon and is willing to come to America and convince his wayward son to come clean with the Great Satan. Sounds like a brilliant strategy to me.
BTW Sarah Palin Rocks.
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