Attorney General Eric Holder Refuses to use the term "Radical Islam"

In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on 5/13/2010, US Attorney General refuses to use the term "radical Islam."




We should be speechless about this video but this is what we have come to expect during the time Eric Holder has been the United States Attorney General. Some of his decisions border on bizarre. Anyone who has known him for a period of time seems to be shocked by his actions since taking office. Who is pulling the strings? Is it Obama who is making Holder his puppet? If not, who?

One of the first acts of the Holder DOJ was to drop charges against the new Black Panthers for voter intimidation. This video shows very clearly the intimidation factor at a polling place but yet charges were dropped?




On May 14th, the Civil Right's Commission held a hearing on this case with DOJ Lawyer Perez who was not responsible for the original decision to drop charges but with the fall out after he was appointed. He finally did admit that Pressed by Republican Commissioner Todd Gaziano, Perez agreed that voting rights laws should be enforced in a race neutral manner. What kind of a DOJ lawyer would not automatically in his opening remarks say that voting rights laws should be enforced equally for everyone?

Then we have Holder's infamous wanting to try enemy combatants in Federal Court instead of by military tribunals at GITMO. To add insult to injury, he wanted them tried in New York City which would make NYC a target for all kinds of terrorists angry these people were being tried. From the Washington Post came this headline on November 14, 2009, Alleged Sept. 11 planner will be tried in New York -- A shift to civilian court Four co-conspirators also will be transferred which shocked the Nation. We are still waiting word on the final decision of where and under which jurisdiction they will be tried.

All of this wasn't enough for Attorney General Holder because on Christmas Day 2009 the terrorist bomber who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight landing in Detroit was Christmas Day bomb suspect was read Miranda rights nine hours after arrest which we learned on February 15, 2010. Why when the man was talking would you hurry to Mirandize him and then say you had contacted all the main people in Congress when in the phone calls you didn't mention Mirandize.

The latest terrorist failed attack in Times Square showed once again how fast the Justice Department read the Times Square suspect his Miranda Rights.



Only later did Holder and the DOJ admit this naturalized citizen of about a year from Pakistan was a terrorist. How did the suspect get his naturalized citizenship is what we would like to know with so many trips to Pakistan?

Only now on May 9th, 2010, after Holder admitted the suspect was a terrorist, Holder according to the NY Times is going in a new direction concerning Miranda Rights which we have excerpted below:

Holder Backs Miranda limit for Terror Suspects.

By Charles Savage

Mr. Holder proposed carving out a broad new exception to the Miranda rights established in a landmark 1966 Supreme Court ruling. It generally forbids prosecutors from using as evidence statements made before suspects have been warned that they have a right to remain silent and to consult a lawyer.

He said interrogators needed greater flexibility to question terrorism suspects than is provided by existing exceptions.

The proposal to ask Congress to loosen the Miranda rule comes against the backdrop of criticism by Republicans who have argued that terrorism suspects — including United States citizens like Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the Times Square case — should be imprisoned and interrogated as military detainees, rather than handled as ordinary criminal defendants.

For months, the administration has defended the criminal justice system as strong enough to handle terrorism cases. Mr. Holder acknowledged the abrupt shift of tone, characterizing the administration’s stance as a “new priority” and “big news” in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“We’re now dealing with international terrorists,” he said, “and I think that we have to think about perhaps modifying the rules that interrogators have and somehow coming up with something that is flexible and is more consistent with the threat that we now face.”

The sentence that should disturb everyone is "We're now dealing with international terrorists" -- what did he think we were dealing with on 9/11 and after?

Then we have the latest Holder issue. On May 14, 2010, we learned that after all the criticism and threatening to sue that Holder had done against the Arizona Immigration Law, he had not bothered to read the ten pages. Holder attacks Arizona for the new law being racist but hasn't read the State law which follows Federal Law that Holder and company are not enforcing.

We will continue to bring you the latest on the Holder situation and maybe some day we will learn if he is puppet of Obama or the most incompetent/inept Attorney General ever appointed. We lean towards puppet and that Obama is running the DOJ. We think that Holder's comments on the Arizona Immigration Law lend more credibility to that scenario.

We believe that Holder should resign because he is obviously not up to the job of being Obama's puppet at DOJ.