It is only a problem if it is a Republican who had forgotten to remember about six cases. If it is a Democrat, and a Democrat who opposes military tribunals, then forgotten a few cases is fine.
How can a man who opposed the use of military hearings, military detention, and Bush's larger policy of holding detainees without trial, become the man charged with enforcing policies that, each day appear a little more like Bush's - Guantanamo is still open, new people are held there, Obama has decided (rightly) to not hold civilian trials for Mohammad and his cohorts, they are still being detained, without trial as yet ... amazing Holder can work as an agent for the government on this issue.
And before we dismiss this as a case of oversight, I would have to ask - if Joe was applying for the position of Attorney General in 2009, what few sets of questions (themeatic only) would you ask him? Assuming the guy you would work for has promised to close Guantanamo and give the terrorists civilian trials. And yes, those were biggies - mentioned every chance he got on the campaign trail. Wouldn't Guantanamo be a big one. Wouldn't trials for terrorists be a big one and if you wrote a brief for one of the only cases to go mto civilian trial, wouldn't that get found and mentioned??? I think so, nay, I am certain it would if they were being open and transparent, rather than being swamp monsters.
Holder is sitting in an office, perhaps he is at a park, walking with someone and as they walk they discuss the Padilla brief and one thought mentioned is to simply forget the Padilla brief, simply forget to give it to the Senate. Perhaps one of the two people walking is a Senator. And further, the Senator, holding a complete list of briefs and cases Holder has beenn involved, checks off a couple other cases and hands it back to the other man - maybe leave off a few others, so as to ensure no one believes we did it on purpose, if that was the only brief, it would be evident, but if it is one of six or seven ... it was an oversight.
I wonder how close I might be. Oh wait, Democrats did this with the secret meetings Cheney had - they imagined all sorts of subjects and theories and conspiracies, and attributed all sorts of malfeasance to the Vice President, knowing nothing, other than a meeting occured. Sort of like the several secret meetings between Obama and Soros at the White House - no transcript or record of their conversation was demanded. No Moveon.org people creating fictitious copnspiracy theories of Obama and Soros.
Interesting how 'truth' works. Interesting what 'transparency' really means.
Att'y general failed to give legal briefs to Senate
WASHINGTON
Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:38pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder failed to tell the Senate about seven legal briefs he signed when lawmakers considered his nomination to his current job, according to a letter released on Friday.
Two of the briefs involved appeals to the Supreme Court for Jose Padilla, who sought release from a military prison in South Carolina where he was being held after then-President George W. Bush designated him an "enemy combatant."
Padilla was held in a military brig for three years before his case was moved to a criminal court in Miami, where he was convicted on charges of offering his services to militants.
The Justice Department sent the Senate Judiciary Committee, which vets presidential nominees, a list of briefs that were omitted on Friday. "We regret the omission," Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich said in a letter to the panel.
Holder has been facing intense scrutiny as the Obama administration tries to decide whether to prosecute terrorism suspects like the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in military or criminal courts.
The attorney general had been spearheading that effort but concerns about holding those trials in criminal court forced the White House to intervene and officials are now weighing whether to prosecute Mohammed and four of his alleged co-conspirators in a military court.
Previously, Holder has disclosed to the Senate five briefs he submitted to the Supreme Court during his law practice. From July 2001 until being confirmed by the Senate as attorney general, Holder worked at Covington & Burling in Washington.
Earlier this week, the Justice Department said Holder failed to tell the Senate about one brief he signed related to the Padilla case, prompting outcries from Republicans who said it offered more details about Holder's views on key policies.
The other six briefs related to issues such as race discrimination and a challenge to a prison sentence.
And dear Retardicans, lest we feel left out - all the members of Congress in the Republican party (the Retardicans) do not have the brains to comprehend the level of complexity of the lies and cover-up that Losercrats do daily. It is very sad to watch. You stack a Retardican against a Losercrat and the poor Retardican needs the Losercrat handicapped, bound, tied, gagged, drugged, and thrown into a sack, to even the odds, and they still lose. And it is not because of the values held by Retardicans - their core values are far closer to the values of this country and our shared history than anything on the other side, rather it is simply the intellectual disparity between the two. However, I know with certainty there are intellectual heavyweights on the Republican side, but for whatever reason (perhaps because the Retardicans keep hogging the news / spotlight) their arguments and cases are not as well known.
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