Holder Confirmation Dirty Dealing
There is something smelly about the Holder confirmation process. According to Eli Lake in the Washington Times, Holder’s confirmation will be assured quid pro quo. The ‘deal’ is that the Justice Department will not pursue prosecution of Bush administration officials who authorized coercive interrogation techniques. All republicans have to do is allow Holder to be confirmed and nobody gets dragged through a messy prosecution.
This isn’t quid pro quo - it’s fucking blackmail.
More analysis on this from Andy McCarthy writing in National Review’s “The Corner.”
Thanks to Liberty Sphere for mentioning this in the Roundup.
2 Responses to “Holder Confirmation Dirty Dealing”
Linoge on 29 Jan 2009 at 0339 #
If true, I am not sure who this would piss off more - the radical left for not actually prosecuting the Bush administration, or the entire right for being blackmailed.
“Hope and change” indeed…
Minstrel on 29 Jan 2009 at 0656 #
This administration is an equal-opportunity adversary - there will be enough ‘pissing off’ to go around.