Andy McCarthy wrote, once again, about Attorney General Eric Holder, on NRO. You'll recall that Holder, in one his earliest speeches after his confirmation, called the United States "a nation of cowards" when it comes to race relations. This from a guy who refuses to provide an honest answer about his position on the treatment of captured enemy combatants, when questioned before a Congressional Committee.
Here are some clips (emphasis added).
There is dishonest, and there is asinine. Combine them and you have Attorney General Eric Holder’s congressional testimony on Tuesday.
...Cornered, he insisted to Rep. John Culberson (R., Texas) that there was no need to answer the question of whether Osama bin Laden would be Mirandized on capture because . . . he won’t be captured. Holder guaranteed that bin Laden would instead be killed: “We will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden,” Holder said. “He will never appear in an American courtroom.”
...What is even more troubling than Holder’s stubborn failure of imagination is his twisted mindset. According to the Obama administration’s dogma, we must abandon the war footing that we’ve been on since 9/11, go back to approaching jihadist terror as a crime, and treat every perpetrator of a “man-caused disaster” as an ordinary defendant clothed in the Bill of Rights. This shining example of “our values” in action, we’re told, will impress the Muslim world and thus improve our security.
So how impressed is the Muslim world going to be when we summarily kill Muslims so that we can avoid inconvenient questions about Miranda warnings and thereby spare the Obama administration some political angst?
...Holder clearly believes — as he argued in the amicus brief he withheld from the Senate before his confirmation hearings — that our al-Qaeda enemies should be regarded as common criminals: given Miranda warnings upon capture and endowed with all the due-process protections of civilian defendants. This is an ill-advised position, but it’s not an uncommon one. It is predominant on the academic Left. Yet Holder bobs, weaves, and contradicts himself on the question — whatever it takes to avoid giving us a straight answer about his own beliefs. So who is the coward?
Here's the whole article:
This Corpse Has the Right to Remain Silent - Andrew C. McCarthy - National Review Online
H/T: bkmck
