{"id":3784,"date":"2010-03-06T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T22:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2010-03-06T18:21:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T22:21:18","slug":"if-obama-forces-military-tribunals-eric-holder-should-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/03\/06\/if-obama-forces-military-tribunals-eric-holder-should-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"If Obama Forces Military Tribunals, Eric Holder Should Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the few bright spots of principle in the Obama Administration had been its insistance that the American justice system was not outclassed by terrorists. \u00c2\u00a0And now, it seems that Obama’s inability to stand up to even the weakest of criticism has the administration reconsidering. \u00c2\u00a0LG&M suggests the proper response:<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s every bit as illegitmate for the White House to order Holder what to do in this matter as it was for Richard Nixon to order Elliott Richardson to fire Archibald Cox. Barack Obama (let alone his messenger boy Emanuel — or is the other way around?) is not the nation’s chief law enforcement officer: Eric Holder is. Holder has spent the last three months telling everyone that considerations of basic justice argued for trying KSM in our regular courts, rather than in military tribunals set up for the purpose of disposing of particularly troublesome criminal cases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the few bright spots of principle in the Obama Administration had been its insistance that the American justice system was not outclassed by terrorists. \u00c2\u00a0And now, it seems that Obama’s inability to stand up to even the weakest of criticism has the administration reconsidering. \u00c2\u00a0LG&M suggests the proper response: It’s every bit as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t