Holder and Obama appoint lawyers of our enemies to the DOJ

Eric Holder is our Attorney General of the United States. In my humble opinion, not as a Conservative activist blogger but as a citizen of this country, Eric Holder may be guilty of treason. Now I know that is a strong statement, but let me ‘splain myself before you label me a whacko.

Holder was a senior partner at Covington and Burling, LLP; a prestigious law firm that prides itself on its pro-bono work. Now that in itself is not a bad thing, but I got this little boast from the C&B website under the heading of “Accolades”:

Center for Constitutional Rights – Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year – Presented to Michael Winger and the firm for work related to illegal detention of Muslim immigrants after 9/11 (5/1/2008).

In the interest of being fair and balanced on this issue, C&B does seem to do a lot of great pro-bono work in the area of children’s rights. Especially in the area of immigrant children coming to America to escape torture and death at the hands of drug gangs in their home countries. For that, I applaud C&B. However in the matter of their representation of terror detainees in order to deny the Bush administration’s attempts to try them in military tribunals I abhor their actions.

The whole KSM debacle where Holder wants to try him virtually at ground zero in

NYC would have been avoided, had firms like C&B not blocked on nearly every front efforts to setup and utilize those military commissions. To say that Holder’s former law firm, Covington and Burling is on the left end of the spectrum is an understatement. They also have on their website under that same “Accolades” heading:

Minority Media and Telecommunications Council – Distinguished Pro Bono Achievement Award – Presented to Jonathan Blake for “extraordinary assistance to the cause of diversity and inclusion in our nation’s most important industries” (7/21/2008).

Now both the Center for Constitutional Rights and Minority Media & Telecommunications Council are far left entities. CCR in particular is an extreme far left whacko group.

• They advocate in favor of ACORN
• They have available a deck of “Torture Team” sports memorabilia-like cards on their website featuring members of the Bush administration
• They call for “Impeachment and Criminal Investigation of “Torture Lawyers”
• They are suing Caterpillar, INC for an incident in Palestine in which someone was tragically run over and killed by a bulldozer. CCR claims that because Caterpillar sold heavy equipment to the Israeli Defense Force they are liable for actions taken by the IDF.  ??  Caterpillar is supposed to know how their equipment will or won’t be used? I suppose that if it had been a car, the lawsuit might read, “CCR vs. General Motors”

I could go on all day with this group, but it is plain to see that Holder’s former law firm keeps company with an interesting array of left wing groups. Does this mean that Holder’s former firm is far left? Well this is brought to you via 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.

Along with:

“…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.

And let’s not forget the FALN debacle that Holder took part in under the Clinton administration. However, at the beginning of this article, I stated rather boldly that Holder may be guilty of treason. Let’s refresh our understanding of the definition of treason, shall we?

Treason – trea*son  pronounced [tree-zuh n]

-noun

• the offense of acting to overthrow one’s government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
• a violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state.
• the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

And sovereign is defined as:

Sovereign – sov*er*eign  pronounced [sov-rin, sov-er-in, suhv-rin]

-noun

• a group or body of persons or a state having sovereign authority.

So treason is defined as acting to harm one’s government or kill its sovereign and as a violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or one’s state and finally as a betrayal of trust; treachery. I therefore allege that Holder and Obama for that matter, by appointing lawyers that have represented terror detainees in the higher reaches of the DOJ where they now are in all probability working on the other side of the same cases might well constitute treason.

Consider this short video:

What is it that Holder is hiding? Why is he refusing to give Congress the names of the DOJ appointees that previously represented terrorists?

I can only speculate, but instead of that, read what was reported in the Washington Times by Quin Hilyer:

Ironically, say DOJ sources, while Holder and his staff continue to work hard to protect the identities of those attorneys who provided legal advice to suspected or convicted terrorists, several of the attorneys in question are believed to have been instrumental in the efforts of Human Rights Watch and CREW to leak to the media and Democrat supporters on Capitol Hill, the names of CIA interrogators of enemy combatants and suspected terrorists, as well as the locations of foreign-based U.S. secure holding facilities and various interrogation techniques used on terror suspects and enemy combatants.

Michelle Malkin commented on the above passage in this manner, I would have to say that I agree with her:

Wow. And wow again. If these people are leaking the CIA names, they are clearly engaged in illegal activity, bordering on treasonous in the non-legal sense of the word. For that matter, where have all the lefties been who screamed bloody murder when Robert Novak and Richard Armitage innocently leaked the name of utterly desk-bound, high-profile, arguably not even covert Valerie Plame? Inadvertently leaking Plame’s name is far less of an offense than deliberately leaking the info about the CIA interrogators. Where are the calls for prosecutions? Where is the almighty Patrick Fitzgerald to put some more skins on the wall?

All that Holder WILL tell Congress is that in a paragraph in a letter to Republican Senator Charles Grassley, Holder makes it very clear that all the lawyers who did advocate for terror detainees are free to work on general detainee issues.

Talk about arrogance… So, in light of all this the mid-term elections in November become all that much more imperative to the conservative cause. For only if the GOP can retake at least ONE house of Congress, will we begin to see some subpoenas that might compel Holder, et al to come clean on this cover up.