Eric Holder… Psychic

The Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, is under fire again after making some ill-advised remarks about how the administration looks at the leadership of trans-national terrorist organizations.  The crux of the idiocy seems to have occurred following a question by Republican member of the House. 

“Let’s deal with reality,” Holder said. “You’re talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That’s the reality. … He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he’s not captured by us. We know that.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34525.html#ixzz0iUHSt6iD

 

Eric Holder seems to approach this hypothetical with the pompous arrogance of, well, his superior.  Simple peons!  We know better than to think we could possibly catch Osama alive.  Apparently, the Attorney General is not an advocate for looking into serious tensions between the law and security, war-time and peace-time differences in application of law et cetera because he has everything figured out, including the future.  His prescience reminds me of The Chili Song by Gary P. Nunn in which a part of the verse goes:

Some people think we’re strange, just a little bit crazy,
Cause we can see tomorrow, yesterday

Apparently, the Obama Administration is beyond having to thinkabout these matters, because they have justice completely figured out.  Whereas, those in the Bush Administration who knew justice to be an ever elusive ideal worth striving for because it is the highest component of the soul, actually received the bad rap of being close-minded and Neanderthal-like in their group-think, despite that fact that the so-called “Torture Memos” were the rich pontifications of such matters as they pertain to law, war and peace.  I like how an Administration like Obama’s, that so publicly lashed out at the previous administration for Water-Boarding, is content with just killing Osama bin Laden without a trial as long as it gets Eric Holder out of question and answer time with Congress. 

What’s good is that my lady Liz Cheney and her Keep America Safeorganization is already holding Holder accountable for his testimony.   Debra Burlingame was quoted in Politico:

“Putting Charlie Manson in a civilian court didn’t endanger any intelligence secrets,” Debra Burlingame, a member of the Keep America Safe Board of Directors, told Politico. “When he draws analogies like that, that’s when he loses people. It appears as if he doesn’t know we’re at war.”

Furthermore, General McChrystal had to come out and assure people that their intention was to capture Osama so that they can extrapolate intelligence (I guess by asking pretty please) and track down the other members in the network and prevent future plots. 

What needs to be addressed, however, is the fact that Eric Holder should not be asked what he plans on doing with Osama bin Laden when he’s caught, because that is not Eric Holder’s place.  The nation is at war, and if Osama were captured, I would expect him to receive a tribunal like any other enemy combatant. 

-rj