Pay attention to Eric Holder’s law firm and Gitmo detainees

[WillowTree]

from jan. 2009

[a]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated yemenis, note that ag nominee eric holder is a senior partner with covington & burling, a prestigious washington, d.c. Law firm, which represents 17 yemenis currently held at gitmo. From the c & b website:







Michelle Malkin » Pay attention to Eric Holder’s law firm and Gitmo detainees







the firm represents 17 yemeni nationals and one pakistani citizen held at guantánamo bay. The supreme court will soon review the d.c. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the supreme court case. We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the supreme court to hear our pakistani client’s appeal from the d.c. Circuit’s order dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the d.c. Circuit under the detainee treatment act of 2005 for all of our clients. On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the supreme court in the summer of 2006 invalidated president bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the fifth amendment and the geneva conventions.

 

[WillowTree]

Michelle Malkin » Obama’s December Gitmo surprise — and the Covington & Burling connection revisited

Don’t you love our open, transparent, most ethical ever White House?

Team Obama chose the weekend before Christmas, with Americans wrapped up in the holidays and the Senate occupied with its dead-of-night Demcare deal, to release 12 Gitmo detainees back to their home countries:

The Justice Department identified those sent home as:

_Afghans Abdul Hafiz, Sharifullah, Mohamed Rahim and Mohammed Hashim.

_Somali detainees Mohammed Soliman Barre and Ismael Arale.

_Yemenis Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mari, Farouq Ali Ahmed, Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi, Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher, Fayad Yahya Ahmed al Rami and Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu al Haf.

Mohammed Albasha, Yemen’s embassy spokesman, said his embassy “hails the release and transfer of six of its citizens from Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Yemen will continue its diplomatic dialogue with the United States Government to repatriate the remaining Yemeni detainees.”

The administration has announced that five Guantanamo detainees will be tried in a New York federal court and more are likely to be tried in this country.

Up to 100 detainees will be sent to a nearly empty prison in Thomson, Ill.

 

[pete]

He is learning from his fellow islamist!

 

[Big Black Dog]

When the American population gets tired of chewing on the shit sandwich that Obama and crew, and the worst batch of Congressmen we have ever had created, there will be some reaction. I suspect that reaction will begin with the next couple of election cycles. I predict that before the end of 2010 you won't be able to find many people who will openly state that they voted for Obama. Isn't it nice when these one term Presidents present themselves so early in the game. Wonder what genius the Democrats will run for President in 2012? I can assure you it won't be Obama.