Barack Obama’s Choice for Attorney General Helped to Get Terrorists Pardoned

 Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell

 President-elect Barack Obama has tabbed Eric Holder as his Attorney General, another Clinton insider. It appears the change that Obama was referring to was just a change in which Washington insiders he appointed to his staff.

 Eric Holder to me is the most troubling choice that the president-elect has made so far. And it isn’t because of the role that Holder played in Clinton’s infamous pardon of Mark Rich, tax evading fugitive from justice, after Rich’s wife made lucrative donations to the Clinton library, the Democrat party, and Hillary’s senate campaign totalling over $1.5 million, but rather Holder’s role in Clinton’s pardoning of Puerto Rican Marxist terrorists as well as his pardons of Weather Underground terrorists.

 In 1999, over the objections of the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and prosecuting attorneys, Holder supported Clinton’s commutation of the sentences of 16 FALN conspirators. These pardons — of terrorists who even Holder has conceded had not expressed any remorse — were issued in the months after al-Qaeda’s 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.

Equally noxious were the stealthy pardons of Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans — Weather Underground terrorists associated with Obama’s friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn— issued on the same day as the Rich pardon. Rosenberg and Evans had been serving decades-long sentences for bombings targeting American government facilities. With Holder again helping to circumvent the pardon process and to evade objections from prosecutors, the terrorists’ jail terms were commuted just weeks after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole.

 Does this sound like the type of person that we want as our AG? I don’t think so. President-elect Barack Obama came under fire for his naivety, or softness, when it came to terrorism, national defense, and meeting with the heads of states that sponsor terrorism. The choice of Eric Holder confirms the doubts that many of us have had about him.

 This choice shows us quite a bit about the man that we you elected president. Barack Obama during the campaign, and after the campaign promised to close GITMO, and also talk without pre-conditions to countries who sponsor terrorism, and this selection shows us how he probably intends to proceed in cases of terrorism. Once again America will treat terrorist attacks as criminal acts and not attacks on our country, much as Clinton did in the pre September 11th days. We saw what that led to.

 We see in this selection a man who was instrumental in getting people close to Bill Ayers pardoned. You remember Bill Ayers? Much was made about Barack Obama’s association with Ayers, at least on the internet. We were told he was just a guy in the neighborhood and now Obama has chosen a man that helped get people that Ayers associated with pardoned. I am sure it is a coincidence, at least that will be the story line if any news organizations decide to cover this.

 Barack Obama’s choice of Eric Holder, a man who played an instrumental role in pardoning foreign and domestic terrorists, proves to us the fear that Barack Obama will be soft on terrorists is well founded.