Eric Holder, our beloved Attorney General, doesn't like the CIA. This week his knickers are in a twist because he believes that CIA interrogators might possibly have threatened terrorist detainees with faking their imminent deaths in order to gather intelligence. Mind you, they didn't actually hurt them - or kill them. They just acted as if they were going to.
I'm thinking he'd be in way over his head if he were working for an actual terrorist group where there's no pretending pain and death are going to be inflicted. Heads and entrails would be flying. And on camera for everyone to see, after humiliating statements were forced from the prisoners acknowledging their guilt.
How would Eric feel about that?
Black Panthers holding batons, blocking polls and threatening white voters? Somehow that's all right in Holder World. Even though we have their names, criminal histories and threats on video. Even The American Civil Liberties Union was shocked by this display of hubris.
But not Eric Holder.
I'm sensing a short pattern.
In Holder World, terrorists are the good people. Terrorists are your friends. Particularly when they keep people from voting for the opposition. Perhaps a little rash, but it's just a matter of degree. And intimidation is intimidation.
More evidence of an administration run amok.
Holder is freelancing. The president said the CIA case was closed. Holder, apparently not feeling as though he's answerable to his buddy, charges in a different direction. This case that Holder thinks is original doesn't have a new allegation in it. These reports are from 2004 and 2005. This was reviewed by the Department of Justice and by Congress for four years. Anything improper was taken care of at that time. He is on infertile ground, and cutting the legs out from under the CIA when their resources are needed to help the troops in Afghanistan now.
Leon Panetta, CIA head, has asked Holder to back off. At least six DOJ lawyers under Holder have told him there's no case. And history tells him there's no case.
But Eric Holder is a man with an agenda. He's on a witch hunt. And he hasn't found his little lovelies yet, so he's got to keep on trying. Carl Rove is slipping from his grasp. George Bush is disappearing from view
So how many deaths on the ground in Afghanistan or in Iraq will the Attorney General's nonsense be responsible for when the troops can't get the intelligence they need?
I suspect Mr. Holder neither knows nor cares.
If I were Mr. Holder, I might look twice at that bottle of water before drinking it.
Or maybe he can roll right along because spooks aren't as bad as he makes them out to be.
The new Black Panthers are the ones making me nervous. But then I'm just someone trying to cast a vote in my own country. Not really interesting enough for Mr. Holder to concern himself with. That's what got him where he is today.
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