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| NPR Shocker: Attorney General Holder Stumped By Lindsey Graham |
| 2009-11-19 |
| Or the Senator finally does his job. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): If bin Laden were caught tomorrow, would it be the position of this administration that he would be brought to justice? Attorney General Eric Holder: He would certainly be brought to justice, absolutely. GRAHAM: Where would you try him? HOLDER: Well, we'd go through our protocol. And we'd make the determination about where he should appropriately be tried. [...] GRAHAM: If we captured bin Laden tomorrow, would he be entitled to Miranda warnings at the moment of capture? HOLDER: Again I'm not -- that all depends. I mean, the notion that we -- GRAHAM: Well, it does not depend. If you're going to prosecute anybody in civilian court, our law is clear that the moment custodial interrogation occurs the defendant, the criminal defendant, is entitled to a lawyer and to be informed of their right to remain silent. The big problem I have is that you're criminalizing the war, that if we caught bin Laden tomorrow, we'd have mixed theories and we couldn't turn him over -- to the CIA, the FBI or military intelligence -- for an interrogation on the battlefield, because now we're saying that he is subject to criminal court in the United States. And you're confusing the people fighting this war. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #8 Geithner will be gone in a month. Holder should be axed too, but 0bama won't fire him. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-11-19 15:57 |
| #7 Another priceless exchange recently: At a Joint Economic Committee hearing in Congress, in which House and Senate lawmakers sit on a panel, Mr. Brady (R-TX) opened up his questioning by telling Mr. Geithner Republicans, Democrats, and the American people had lost confidence in the Treasury Secretary and asked him to resign. “It is a great privilege to serve this president,” Mr. Geithner responded. “I agree with almost nothing you said.” Mr. Geithner then took it a step further: “You gave this president an economy falling off the cliff.” Mr. Brady wasn’t done: “Remind me, Mr. Secretary, what post were you holding when President Obama took office?” Geithner: “I was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.” Brady then accused him of “shirking responsibility for the design of this bailout.” Brady's knife would have done more damage had he properly accused Geithner of helping to cause the economic crisis in the first place. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-11-19 14:10 |
| #6 Holder's look was priceless. I think Graham was a JAG. And I think the military has jurisdiction over enemy combatants because they were picked up overseas and tribunals the way to go. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-11-19 13:41 |
| #5 Well, one Senator doing his job. add Joe Lieberman, and there are only 98 left to 'get with the program'. This kind of questioning needed to be done BEFORE his confirmation. asshats. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2009-11-19 13:14 |
| #4 Kinda funny, isn't it, that a purported Constitutional Law prof and his top justice official are so clueless about basic aspects of the law. Then again, in this case maybe the "con" in Con Law has a different correlative |
| Posted by: lex 2009-11-19 11:33 |
| #3 Yes indeed! More please. Much, much more. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-11-19 11:08 |
| #2 So we all have complaints about Graham, but I for one appreciated what he did to Holder. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-11-19 11:07 |
| #1 Via InstaPundit |
| Posted by: ed 2009-11-19 10:15 |