"I know better...nah nah nah-nah-nah nah."    << "I really don't care if you LIKE me."  

Defiantly criticizing Congress for imposing restrictions that block enemy combatant detainees from being tried on US soil and asserting that such "unwise and unwarranted restrictions" are actually undermining counter-terror efforts, Attorney General Eric Holder expressed his disappointment and disgust over being forced to flip-flop on his original scheme -- show trials for both 9/11 co-conspirators and his own progressive prosecutors -- at his primary venue choice, the very New York City neighborhood that was devastated on September 11, 2001.

Holder asserts that as a native New Yorker (so am I) he knows as well as anyone the potential success of trying these suspects in a Manhattan federal courtroom. He claims to be intimately familiar with the cases -- much more so than Congressional members and the common citizens who drive their legislation. Many of the legislators he has dissed have opposed trials being held within the United States based on their own familiarity with these miscreants for seven years prior to the USAG's appointment.

"Do I know better than them? Yes. I respect their ability to disagree but they should respect that this is an executive branch function, a unique executive branch function," Holder said in a press conference. 

Of course, such bravado flies in the face of Holder's resume which is tainted by numerous disastrous legal, ethical and executive decisions.  Removing discretionary decision-making as an option vis a vis the 9/11 co-conspirators is precisely what Congress needed to do after learning of the USAG's original anti-American intentions.

Additionally, keep in mind that as Bill Clinton's Deputy Attorney General, Holder was responsible for:

• Reducing the criminal sentences of 16 members of the Boricua Popular Army, which had been categorized by the FBI as a terrorist organization.

• The pardon of eight incarcerated members of the FALN, one of the most prolific terrorist organizations ever to wage war against the American people, who proudly claimed responsibility for over 130 bombings and incendiary attacks in the U.S. and Puerto Rico that had killed six and wounded scores

• The pardon of Marc Rich, on the final day of Clinton's presidency, who was indicted in the United States on federal charges of illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis as well as for income tax evasion.

   

  More recently, as USAG:

   

• Holder refused to prosecute an open-and-shut case of polling place voter intimidation by Philadelphia members of the New Black Panther Party.

•  Holder has shown his (and Obama's) disregard for the US Constitution by his anti-states' rights opposition to the Arizona immigration law, passed, by the citizens of Arizona, in the most democratic way possible -- by direct ballot.

• A pair of DOJ attorneys have also accused Holder's civil rights division of inactivity and wastefulness, alleging that although the voting section has hired dozens of new attorneys, the number of actual cases filed has declined sharply since Holder took office and many of its employees spend their time "playing computer Solitaire, watching videos, and venting at the lack of activity."

• Holder has faced additional controversy for the Obama Administration's decision that his Department of Justice would no longer enforce certain provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act, which Rep. Frank Wolf has described as a "decision to abandon your duty to defend this law."

Even if you are inclined to agree with the administration's points of disagreement with the previous administration's methodologies for keeping New York City and the rest of America safe from terrorist attack...

Even if you are as unconcerned about the potential for pro-terror and anti-US propaganda as Holder and his cronies are...

Even if you are unable to see any problem with the exposure-by-trial of CIA and other intelligence-gathering organizations' information and strategies to enemies of America...

Even if you are unconcerned about the security and privacy issues inherent in keeping a civilian jury occupied for such an extended period of time...

Even if you are eager for the US to prove, by giving a fair trial to even an admitted arch-enemy, its claim of being the fairest and most democratic nation on earth...

Even if you are willing to see fair trials turn into show trials...

...what scintilla of logic has Eric Holder or any other member of the Obama administration ever presented that convinces you there is no better, more secure venue than lower Manhattan (in a courthouse that was once in the shadow of the World Trade Center Towers) for Federal Court trials of foreign nationals who had plotted and been apprehended abroad?

It would do no good to argue legalities let alone ethicalities with Eric Holder. The Obama administration's collective mind has always been made up to mock Americans' Constitutional rights by allowing such travesties of justice as the trial of the self-admitted 9/11 plot mastermind, the miscreant being afforded the very same legal privileges as a US citizen.

Our Attorney General coddled enemies of America during the Clinton administration and is fortunate never to have been tried, himself, in a federal courthouse. 

Who but the like-minded Barack Hussein Obama would ever recycle and promote the anti-American's best friend, Eric Holder? Both of them should "know better" but they have proven to us time and time again that they don't.

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