That’s what Newsweek‘s Isikoff says.
By the way, Marc Ambinder shared some thoughts this morning on why some leaks are escaping Camp Obama but others aren’t, as did Kevin Drum on why so many Obama appointments (and/or rumors) involve Clintonites.
A.G. Eric Holder
November 18th, 2008 @ 3:33 pm - by lotus · 3 Comments
Filed Under: Herald & Examiner
We have met the enemy and they are us!!!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122731301791449521.html
NOTABLE & QUOTABLE NOVEMBER 22, 2008
Eric Holder (Barack Obama’s choice for Attorney General), on the question of whether unlawful combatants captured in the war on terror are entitled to prisoner-of-war status under the Geneva Convention. From an interview on CNN, January 2002:
“One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future plans might be, where other cells are located; under the Geneva Convention that you are really limited in the amount of information that you can elicit from people.
It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves, however, that they are not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not prisoners of war. If, for instance, Mohamed Atta had survived the attack on the World Trade Center, would we now be calling him a prisoner of war? I think not. Should Zacarias Moussaoui be called a prisoner of war? Again, I think not.”
I wonder if Dickie knows about this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/us/politics/02holder.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122749145870752223.html
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…
JB
“It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves, however, that they are not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not prisoners of war. If, for instance, Mohamed Atta had survived the attack on the World Trade Center, would we now be calling him a prisoner of war? I think not. Should Zacarias Moussaoui be called a prisoner of war? Again, I think not.”
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Exactly. I could not agree more. I’m starting to really like this Holder guy.