A day after Attorney General Eric Holder criticized Congress for intervening in the Justice Department’s plans to conduct a civilian trial of 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City, Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) had some strong words:
“Maybe Eric Holder wants to live in a dictatorship, we don’t,” King said in an interview with Fox News. “If he feels so strongly about it [...] and this is such an issue of conscious [sic] for him, then Eric Holder should resign. If he feels this strongly he should resign on principle. It would do him good, it would certainly do us good. It would do the country good.”
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Eric "Ratface" Holder will never resign on principle. He will never get another govt. job again, and he has little other marketable job skills.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseconscious should be "conscience", I believe. Was Kind not conscious of the difference? Maybe it needs a [sic].
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI suspect his main principle is holding power.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's about time someone in the GOP had the stones to say what we all know. Holder is a dangerous incompetent and should never have been AG. He shouldn't be allowed within 200 yards of the DOJ.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHe'd need to have principles in order to resign on principle.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIs Holder *the worst* AG of the last 40 years? I vaguely recall John Mitchell, but good grief, Holder's in a class by himself!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBe careful what you wish for.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHolder might be replaced by someone who is actually competent, thus far more dangerous.
Leave the bumbling buffoon there.
BK in TX said exactly what I was thinking. Either great minds think alike--or BK in TX should begin to worry as my wife says I'm nuts!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAs bad as Mr. Holder is, I think we are all forgetting Janet Reno.
I mean, c'mon people!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou expect AG Holder to have principles?
HAH!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseEric Holder is who you'd hire if you wanted to engage in illegal, immoral actions. Thus and so.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHolder should be fired for saying that KSM has had justice delayed. Any defense attorney worth his or her salt should use that statement to seek dismissal of the case. Shame on Holder. God help us all.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHe's defiantly looking out for "his" people. Maybe he regards KSM as one of them.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI loved how Holder claimed that he, as AG, knew details about the case and strategy that trumped what Congress knew, and that his Olympian perspective made him a better judge of the case than they were. (This WHILE announcing that his boss had caved-in and adopted Congress's position as official administration policy.)
The problem is that Holder and Obama had decided to try KSM in civilian courts BEFORE either of them had any inside information about the nature of the case or the strategy, indeed while both of them knew far less about the issues than many of those who criticized their position. Both Holder and Obama were simply committed to a theoretical, law school faculty lounge understanding of terrorism prosecutions before the election and they tried to implement this understanding when they were put in power - reality be damned.
It has taken them this long to realize that what they want to do is impossible as a political matter, though I doubt either is capable of enough honest analysis or self-criticism to admit that they got the theory wrong, too. Hence the usual surly ill-grace with which a member of the Obama administration greets a slap in the face from the real world. (See the Prez himself after the 2010 elections.)
Regards,
Joe
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseConstitutional Professor my butt. Hey, now I ar kwaluphied too bee won two!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHolder sets new standards for politicizing justice. What a failure. It's what one would expect from a political flak and another indictment of affirmative action.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd don't let the door hit you in the back on your way out.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseObjects of Appeal similar to calling for Eric Holder to resign "on principle":
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse1) Benedict Arnold's patriotism;
2) Paris Hilton's chastity;
3) Charlie Sheen's good judgment;
4) Hitler's humanity;
5) Obama's experience;
Try this at home, it's a fun parlor game.