Eric Holder Calls Terrorist Attorneys "Patriots"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, March 19, 2010, 4:41 PM
Far Left Kook Eric Holder Redefines Patriotism…
Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder called far left lawyers who represented terrorist killers at Gitmo “patriots.”
FOX News reported, via FOX Nation:
Two weeks after a conservative group disparaged Justice Department lawyers who previously represented terror suspects, Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday weighed in for the first time, calling such lawyers “patriots.”
“Those who reaffirm our nation’s most essential and enduring values do not deserve to have their own values questioned,” Holder told a group of lawyers who offer “pro bono,” or voluntary, legal services. “Let me be clear about this: Lawyers who provide counsel for the unpopular are, and should be treated as what they are: patriots.”
The crowd, gathered to honor Holder with an award from the Washington-based Pro Bono Institute, erupted in applause.
For months the Justice Department had been refusing to identify seven politically-appointed attorneys who previously represented or advocated for terror suspects.
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Andreas K. commented:
“Let me be clear about this: Lawyers who provide counsel for the unpopular are, and should be treated as what they are: patriots.”
Unpopular.
So if they defend rapists, murderers, pedophiles… they’re also “patriots”?
Send this nutjob to Iran.
Nelle commented:
We all want to treat patriots like patriots. So let’s hear who they are, and shine some light their personal stories of patriotism, so we can give them the appropriate respect. How else can our enduring and essential values be passed on?
opaobie commented:
They are patriots for the cause they support, in the same way Nazis were “patriots” for Nazi Germany and Communists were for the Soviet Union. WE, on the other hand, are patriots for the United States of America.
Jim commented:
On this basis, Charles Manson is now a Cardinal.
sheik yer\'mami commented:
Adding insult to injury, Holder calls a bunch of subversive hirelings “patriots”.
There are laws against treason, and the usurper regime of the O-bast*d is guilty of TREASON.
I want to see the law enforced.
Freddy commented:
I wonder if Holder is including that woman that was representing the blind sheik in his assessment?
And what about the gitmo lawyers that were showing cia operatives pictures to the terrorists? Does Holder consider them patriots as well?
Kenny Solomon commented:
Gotta ask a favor Jim: Please don’t call Attorney General Eric Holder a ‘Far Left Kook”.
That term imparts a kinship with far left kooks like former Congreewoman Cynthia McKinney, Dr. Howard Dean and their associates.
Our current Attorney General is a clear and present danger to the Rights and freedoms of all Americans, including the people who voted for everyrthing transpiring in our nation.
Thanks.
Kenny Solomon
DC Works For Us
http://www.dcworksforus.com
jonyjoe101 commented:
Most patriots fight the good fight. They fight tyranny, they fight the bad guys.
Patriots don’t represent terrorists. Patriots never aid and abet the enemies of America.
The Obama administration has it all wrong, they call the “far right extremists” terrorists when in reality they are “true patriots” for pointing out the evil in our government.
aro5o75 commented:
Ayatollah Eric Holder.
Ladue Pundit commented:
This is the kind of stuff that Holder hid from the Senate to avoid damning dialog during his confirmation.
He should be fired immediately. Since O-Bow-Mao won’t do it, begin impeachment proceedings. There is more than ample ground to sack this subversive liar.
Mrgoodwench commented:
OK
lets not fool ourselves, we need to learn the left lingo
Jihadies = Bush’s detainees
Jihady’s apologists = patriots
Democracy = Communist despotic regime
Progress = Marxist society
Illegals = Undocumented workers
Illegals on welfare = Economic refugees
Illegals on welfare with anchor babies = Honest hardworking future citizens
Racist = White conservatives
Inner city youth =
Gang banging blacks and latinos
Bi-partisan = RINO got sold for cheap
American people = Stupids who vote democrat and stand in line for obama-monaay
Community leaders / organizers =
reactionary thugs filled with rage
Lets make it a comprehensive list and add on ……..
aro5o75 commented:
2 thumbs up Mrgoodwench.!!
AuntieMadder commented:
Yeah, they’re some real patriots, all right.
On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page color brochure. The cover consisted of the now famous photograph of newly-arrived detainees dressed in orange jumpsuits—masked, bound and kneeling on the ground at Camp X-Ray—just four months after 9/11. Written entirely in Arabic, it also included pictures of what appeared to be detainee operations in Iraq. Major General Jay W. Hood, then the commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, concurred with the guards that this represented a serious breach of security.
Maj. Gen. Hood asked his Islamic cultural adviser to translate. The cover read: “Cruel. Inhuman. Degrades Us All: Stop Torture and Ill-Treatment in the ‘War on Terror.’” It was published by Amnesty International in the United Kingdom and portrayed America and its allies as waging a campaign of torture against Muslims around the globe.
(snip)
Majeed Abdullah Al Joudi, the detainee in whose cell the brochure was first found, told guards he received the brochure from his lawyer. An investigation by JTF-GTMO personnel revealed that Julia Tarver Mason, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, had sent it to Al Joudi and eight of the firm’s other detainee clients through “legal mail”—a designation for privileged lawyer-client communications that are exempt from screening by security personnel. Worse, the investigation showed that Ms. Mason’s clients passed it to other detainees not represented by Paul, Weiss lawyers. In all, more than a dozen detainees received a copy.
At Guantanamo, “legal mail” is strictly limited to correspondence between counsel and a detainee that is related to representation of the detainee, privileged documents and publicly filed legal documents. But even “legal mail,” according to the rules mandated by Judge Joyce Hens Green in a 2004 protective order, prohibits lawyers from giving detainees information relating to military operations, intelligence, arrests, political news and current events, and the names of U.S. government personnel. Lawyers are forbidden from discussing other detainee cases not directly related to the representation of their own client.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/03/indefensible-subversion-or-treason.html
avery commented:
I must have it all wrong,i thought those 5 Navy Seal that brought in that Terrortist was Patroits.Eric Holden is trying to destory those 5 Hero.
AuntieMadder commented:
avery
March 19th, 2010 | 10:28 pm | #14
Defenders of America and the Constitution are criminals. Defenders of those who terrorize America are patriots.
I feel like I woke up one early January morning in 2009 in Opposite World.
jorgen commented:
Deport them to the countries they are patriotic to.
Ellie Light commented:
If the lawyers who defended terrorists are patriots shouldn’t Holder publish their names, addresses, and photos so the American public can reward them in an appropriate way?