Restoring the Sacred

Friday, January 8, 2010

Andrew McCarthy: Holder’s Haste Makes Waste of Intel


Eric Holder’s Justice Department rushed to file an indictment Wednesday against Flight 253 terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The telling document is a monument to lost opportunity. Come hell or high water, the Obama administration will press ahead with its commitment to treat al-Qaeda’s war against the United States as a crime wave best managed by the federal courts.

To protect the United States, though, we don’t need Abdulmutallab’s conviction. We need his information. Wednesday’s indictment demonstrates what two weeks of Obama’s amateur-hour performance have suggested all along: We don’t have it.

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Holder’s Haste Makes Waste of Intel by Andrew C. McCarthy on National Review Online


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