The champagne corks are popping in the DOJ today as the performance of the Justice Department in their demonstration of the ability to successfully prosecute slam-dunk convictions in federal courts of al-Qaeda operatives has been demonstrated clearly. They got a conviction of Ahmed Ghailani!
Terrorist Nailed or Not
Last week we saw a Dallas Cowboys coach fired mid-season for posting a 1-7 record. Hit the road, Wade!
What do we make of the Eric Holder performance here? Can he get a high-five and a chest bump for bringing a 1-285 record back from the courtroom?
I feel confident that he is claiming victory. The weasel-worded statement that emerged about an hour ago was that more charges upheld would have been an "optical" victory, but getting one conviction was more than adequate for demonstrating how they will operate with other high-value terrorists awaiting their day in court. It is a win that doesn't look like a win to all you unsophisticated rubes in fly-over country.
Holder's victory claim, however, is unclear to me. Is his victory getting that one puny hit after a full baseball season of trips to the plate? 1-285 means you struck out a lot. Football does't play that many games, so for a college coach that's like getting one victory after 22 years! Maybe his victory is really that he wanted to demonstrate unequivocally the justice system to all those poor terrorists of the world. We really mean we won't hurt you regardless of what you've done. Kill a bunch of Americans and we will forgive because that's how we roll.
Is Holder's victory his conviction or his mass of acquittals? Should we now go forth with a federal day in court for Khalid Sheik Mohammed?
How does Holder keep his job? How?
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Don't worry; our criminally-insane, racist Attorney General is likely on the top of the list of administration figures to be investigated, beginning in January.
Unlike most of the other Marxist collaborators on that list, Holder may be the only one who ends up in jail - not for this mockery of justice (or his similar plans for KSM) - but for his criminal dereliction in refusing prosecution of the Philadelphia New Black Panther voter intimidation case in 2008. (And his orders to the Justice Department to ignore all racial charges against blacks, who can only be victims - and _never_ perpetrators.)
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