More Bad and Politically Biased Legal Advice from DOJ Attorneys

Back in April Acting U.S. Attorney Lev Daslin informed the U.S. District Court that the Department of Justice had concluded that there was no legal basis to prevent the release of detainee "abuse" photos. Every arm of the national security apparatus had opposed the release because they would be converted to enemy propaganda. The Muffled Oar can report that the decision to release the photos was made at the highest level of the Department of Justice with the support of Obama political appointees. But if the Best and the Brightest at the Department say you have to release the photos, then who could question such esteemed legal minds? After all, don't they know best? Aren't they smarter than all the rest?

Apparently not. Lev Daslin and his confederates at Main Justice were wrong, dead wrong. Today the United States Supreme Court said so.

Take careful note, the Supreme Court threw out the Second Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in a PER CURIUM opinion which said:

The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for further consideration in light of Section 565 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010, and the certification by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to that provision.

Here is the best part - back in April, Obama press spokesman Robert Gibbs noted the Best and the Brightest Lawyers at the Justice Department had concluded, we kid you not, that the Supreme Court wouldn't even be interested in TAKING the case:

The full Second Circuit had declined to reconsider the panel’s decisions, and Robert Gibbs, the chief White House spokesman, said on Friday that Justice Department lawyers had concluded they would not be able to persuade the Supreme Court to review the case.

Nope. They couldn't get the Supreme Court to review the case. Instead the Supreme Court took the case AND reversed the Second Circuit all at once. Keep this in mind the next time some Justice Department Oracle tells you something. They are making it up as they go along, and the law they cite will always conform to the outcome they want.

Burlingame, et al v. Holder, Ogden, Perrelli and Associates

Debra Burlingame, the sister of American Airlines Flight 77 Pilot Chic Burlingame obliterates Attorney General Eric Holder in the New York Daily News. The founder of the victim families group 9/11 Never Forget U.S. always speaks with a moral authority few can match. Her article in the New York Post packs a punch no response can equal:

How dare this man, who didn’t have the decency to notify victims’ families of his decision to bring these monsters here, imply that we lack courage. Courage is carrying on after watching your loved ones die, in real time, knowing that they burned to death, were crushed to death, or jumped from 100 flights high. Courage is carrying on, even as we waited, in some cases years, for something of our loved ones to bury. More than 1,100 families still wait.

How dare the attorney general suggest that the firefighters who oppose this trial need to “man up” and let this avowed enemy of America mock their brother firefighters in the country’s most magisterial setting, a federal court.

These are extremely dangerous waters for the senior partners at Holder, Ogden, Perrelli and Associates. Once the public recognizes the fact that senior political appointees and their deputies throughout the highest levels of the Department are tainted by their previous representation of terrorist detainees, the public will become enraged. This story is merely in the beginning stages. So far only the vast conflicts of one named partner of terrorist defense firm Holder, Ogden, Perrelli and Associates have been revealed. But there are between 12 to 30 other senior DOJ lawyers with similar conflicts from representing terrorist detainees.

The worst part about the terrorist representation is that it was not done for cash. It was done because of idealogical alliegence. And make no mistake - this wasn't merely representing the terrorists in the military commissions at GITMO. Holder, Ogden, Perrelli and Associates have a history of success of expanding the substantive rights of terrorists, not merely ensuring their existing rights under the law. They took these cases for idealogical reasons and weakened American and strenghtened our enemies. The PR hacks at Holder, Ogden, Perrelli and Associates won't want to hear that, but it is the truth. They have helped the enemies of America. And now the sister of an American hero is waking America up.

Terrorist Conflicts at Justice Department

Few breaking stories are more disturbing than the infiltration of the Department of Justice by supporters of America's enemies. Woe to the incumbent when middle America learns of this disgrace. And they know it.

Holder, Ogden, Perrelli and Associates have dozens and dozens of conflicts because high ranking Department of Justice officials have represented terrorist enemies. This is a fact beyond dispute. Only the extent of the conflict remains unknown because the Most Transparent Administration in History won't release the conflict list. Woe to the incumbent when middle America learns of these conflicts. And they know it. So does the US Senate and the Sunday Washington Times:

When considering how to handle captured terrorist suspects who represent an existential threat to America, the U.S. government owes the American people the fullest measure of reassurance that decisions are made by people without any conflicts of interest.

In addition to asking for a list of Justice Department officials who have been recused from detainee cases and for a list of those cases, the senators are asking what the criteria for such recusals are, for the scope of the recusals - "e.g. is an individual who previously represented a detainee recused only from matters related to that individual or from other detainees?" - and whether any ethics waivers regarding detainee cases have been granted to any officials.

The senators are right on track. These terrorist cases represent matters of life and death to American citizens. The public deserves to have confidence in the officials overseeing these cases.

Senator Sessions, you aren't going to get the list because the Most Transparent Administration in History knows how damning the list is. The Muffled Oar has learned that the recusal list for Attorney General Eric Holder is similarly vast and equally disturbing. Moreover, the Muffled Oar has learned that top deputies throughout the components of the Department that handle terrorism cases are similarly conflicted. The problem is that these attorneys work on terrorist cases on which they are not particularly conflicted, even if they have terrorist conflicts in others. The practice is so widespread throughout the high levels of Holder, Ogden, Perrelli and Associates, that once Congress gets the full list, the Resignation Whirlpool will at last suck Attorney General Holder under. The Muffled Oar welcomes any Department employee that wishes to leak further details about the list of recusals. We will publish details with a full guarantee of anonymity.

Eric Holder Enters Resignation Whirlpool

The Muffled Oar can safely report that Attorney General Eric Holder has entered the resignation whirlpool. He might swirl around for a few months, but sure enough, he is going down. Let us count the ways:

ACORN Cash

Protecting Criminal Intimidation of voters by armed members of the Black Panther Party

Stonewalling the investigation of it.

Announcing the reopening of CIA criminal investigations without reading the original declination memos -a disgraceful lack of due diligence.

Staffing your Department leadership with advocates for America's enemies.

Bringing the 9-11 mastermind to New York to make a mockery of our judicial system and spew vile at the scene of his crime.

Welcome to the whirlpool Mr. Holder. You'll be back at Covington soon enough -after you resign. We all know how hard it is to fire some people, so don't expect to be fired. But that whirlpool might take a while to suck you down, but you're going to be back in private practice soon. Count on it.

Politicized Justice Department Protects Acorn

It is more and more difficult for Eric Holder to claim the Department is less politicized than the Bush Justice Department. Now Eric Holder is running interference for ACORN's claim to cash, despite Congressional bans. Shameful.

Holder Attends Convention of Terrorist Organization

Eric Holder went to Michigan and gave a speech to a convention sponsored in part by unindicted co-conspirator Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR). The Justice Department has previously stated that CAIR is part of the terrorist muslim brotherhood. Yet the Attorney General of the United States went to tell them at their convention how bad America is:

“For the last nine months, I’ve heard from Muslim and Arab Americans who feel uneasy about their relationship with their government, who feel isolated and discriminated against by law enforcement,” Holder said. “It is inconsistent with what America is all about.”

Eric Holder is the senior managing partner at Holder, Ogden, Perrelli and Associates.