• Posts Tagged ‘Eric Holder’

    DOJ Clears Bush Lawyers for Torture Memos

    by  • February 1, 2010 • politics & money

    I missed this. For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office [...]

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    Tutorial: How to properly defend Holder’s 9/11 trial decision

    by  • November 21, 2009 • politics & money

    It took two Bush Administration officials to properly defend Attorney General Holder’s completely correct and precedented decision to try 9/11 defendants in federal criminal court. In deciding to use federal court, the attorney general probably considered the record of the military commission system that was established in November 2001. This system secured three convictions in [...]

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