Approximately one year ago, United States Attorney General Eric Holder was appearing before Senate committee, defending the Administration’s plan to try 5 Islamic terrorists  in civilian courts who were complicit in the mass murder of 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. 

Holder proclaimed during questioning that:

Failure is not an option.  These are cases that have to be won.

The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo prisoner, Ahmed Ghailani, ended yesterday with the acquittal of the Al Qaeda operative on all but one count out of a total of 281.

Ghailani, 36, was convicted of conspiracy to destroy U.S. buildings and property in the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

The day before the 1998 bombings, Ghailani fled Africa with a one-way ticket to Pakistan, using an alias, according to prosecutors. While on the run, he lived in Afghanistan, working as a cook and bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden and later as a document forger for Al Qaeda.

He was captured in 2004 in Pakistan and was kept at a secret CIA camp overseas. He was transferred to Guantanamo in 2006 and was held there until last year.

It took the civilian jury 4 1/2 days to reach their less- than-just verdict. The Islamic Terrorist faces a mandatory 20-year-to-life sentence for the conspiracy conviction.

Ghailani naturally appeared relieved, hugging his lawyers after the verdict was read in Manhattan Federal Court.

The Obama administration, in a purely political move, went ahead with this dog and pony show, despite the objections of the American public, in an attempt to prove how effective the political philosophy of treating the War of Terror as a law enforcement issue would be.

So, now that they have eggs on their faces, what do they have to say for themselves? …Not a whole lot:

We respect the jury’s verdict and are pleased that Ahmed Ghailani now faces a minimum of 20 years in prison and a potential life sentence.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara attempted to cover the government’s failure, saying:

He will face, and we will seek, the maximum sentence of life without parole when he is sentenced in January.

Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.), who has been against such trials since the beginning, called the mixed verdict

…a disgraceful miscarriage of justice

It shows how totally wrong the Obama administration is to bring a case like this to civilian court. He was acquitted of 224 counts of murder.

Judge Lewis Kaplan barred a key witness from testifying because the man’s name came to light while Ghailani was held at a CIA camp where suspects reportedly were tortured.

King explained:

If this had been before a military tribunal, evidence that was blocked in this case would have been admissable.

His defense attorney argued that Ghailani was a “dupe” who was kept in the dark about the plot. No witnesses were called to testify on Ghailani’s behalf during the month-long trial.

Per defense lawyer Peter Quijano:

This verdict is a reaffirmation that this nation’s judicial system is the greatest ever devised. It is truly a system of laws and not men.

Laws, not men…hmmm.  So legal jurisprudence trumps America’s safety?

Returning to the subject of that stalwart defender of America, AG Eric Holder, from 2001 until he became Attorney General, Holder worked in private practice for the prestigious law firm of Covington and Burling.  Researching his time there is quite illuminating.  Can you say Conflict of Interest?

In her best-seller, Culture of Corruption, Michelle Malkin wrote:

One wonders what the Obamas would say about Holder’s lucrative work for Chiquita Brands International if it had been performed by, say, John McCain’s top lawyer? As chief counsel for the global company, Holder won a “slap-on-the-wrist plea deal to charges that it had paid off” Colombian paramilitary death squads. Liberal critics of Holder point out that he used his influence as a former Clinton Justice Department official to negotiate a sweetheart deal for Chiquita.

…Putting on the best terrorist defense is a Covington & Burling specialty. Among the firm’s other celebrity terrorist clients: 17 Yemenis held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The law firm employed dozens of radical attorneys such as David Remes and Marc Falkoff to provide the enemy combatants with more than 3,000 hours of pro bono representation. Covington & Burling co-authored one of three petitioners’ briefs filed in the Boumediene v. Bush detainee case, and secured victories for several other Gitmo enemy combatants in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Falkoff went on to publish a book of poetry, Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak, which he dedicated to the suspected terrorists: “For my friends inside the wire, Mahmoad, Majid, Yasein, Saeed, Abdulsalam, Mohammed, Adnan, Jamal, Othman, Adil, Mohamed, Abdulmalik, Areef, Adeq, Farouk, Salman, and Makhtar. Inshallah, we will next meet over coffee in your homes in Yemen.”

Lovely.  

So, the man in charge of enforcing America’s laws kept Terrorists out of jail before he landed this job.  How unconscionable and/or stupid does Obama and his pinheaded minions in his administration and Congress have to be in order for Eric Holder to have been appointed Attorney General of the United States of America?

If Obama and Holder have the audacity to continue with the farce of attempting to try unrepentant Islamic Terrorists in our Federal Courts, regardless of which American city the trial is located in, they have more than proven their blatant disregard for the safety of Americans.

Between the accusations of racism with the Justice Department, the Federal Government’s war against the citizens of Arizona, and granting civilian trials to Islamic Terrorists who are waging jihad against our country, there is more than enough of a case to justify replacing Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General.

And we need to relieve his boss of his duties while we’re at it.