Pay attention to Eric Holder’s law firm and Gitmo detainees

[darrels joy]

Pay attention to Eric Holder’s law firm and Gitmo detainees

By Michelle Malkin • January 23, 2009 02:41 PM
A good friend writes:

[A]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis, note that AG nominee Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. From the C & B website:

The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantánamo Bay. The Supreme Court will soon review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the Supreme Court case. We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients. On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.

Covington & Burling’s Gitmo bar roster has included some of the most radical detainee advocates; see David Remes, who peeled down to his underwear at a press conference in Yemen to draw attention to his clients’ plight and Marc Falkoff, who published a book of detainee poetry and who, in the book’s intro, compared their heroic struggle to the Jews held in concentration camps and Japanese Americans held in internment camps during WWII. [One of Falkoff's "gentle, thoughtful" young poets--a Kuwaiti "cleared for release" and repatriated in 2005--blew himself up in a truck bomb in Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42 others.]

The fact that Mr. Holder, while Deputy Attorney General, pushed for the release of 16 violent FALN terrorists against the advice of the FBI, the US Attorneys who prosecuted them and the NYPD officers who were maimed by them, suggests that he was perfectly willing to put politics before the national security interests of the country. He is not suited for the job of attorney general, which is central to the issues surrounding the disposition of war on terror detainees.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/23...tmo-detainees/

[SuperScout]

This couldn't possibly a conflict of interest, now could it? this should really be on the front page of this site, and on every newspaper.

America deserves better.

[reconeil]

"Front page of every newspaper"???????????
Get Real, Brice.

Will be a cold day in hell before The Mainstream Press/Media emphasize any: "Conflict of
interest" or anything Bad or Suspect about their Democrat/Leftist Wartime Undermining:
"Darlings" & World Saviors. Won't even state Barack Hussein Obama II or Junior's middle
name, since might make him seem suspect TO MANY.

About quite differently Honest, Sensible, Practical & Pragmatic Republicans/Conservatives
trying to keep us all alive & well,...that's a whole different story.

We live in truly sick & scary Quite Lordly Times,...where ALL (even most stupid & absurd)
seems justified doing (or not) by either a: "I Won" or; "We Won" response from across-the-
board and/or clean-sweep & TOTAL CONTROL by America's Political Supremacist Leftist Clique.

Neil