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Sanity -> OOPS - Att'y general failed to give legal briefs to Senate (3/12/2010 7:37:35 PM)
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Ah well. Who could possibly remember all the briefs they filed with the Supreme Court in the defense of terrorists. I'm sure its just an honest mistake that anybody could have made. And its probably just those damned far right Conservative types who really care about this sort of thing anyway...
From Reuters:
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Att'y general failed to give legal briefs to Senate
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.
Barack Obama
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.
Read the rest at http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B48P20100312?type=politicsNews
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