No Wonder (In)Justice Dept Went After Bush Admin Attorneys: Nine Worked On Behalf Of Al-Queda Terrorists Before Joining Dept.

After an investigation into possible wrongdoing for coming up with interrogation methods for al-Queda terrorists, the Obama InJustice Department didn't press charges against Bush Administration attorneys, but only said they used "poor judgement" (Yahoo News).

While the Department went after Bush Administration officials for doing their jobs to protect America from another attack, Holder has revealed that nine attorneys worked on behalf of detained al-Queda before joining the department (Washington Examiner).

Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.

Holder's admission comes in the form of an answer to a question posed last November by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley. Noting that one Obama appointee, Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, formerly represented Osama bin Laden's driver, and another appointee, Jennifer Daskal, previously advocated for detainees at Human Rights Watch, Grassley asked Holder to give the Senate Judiciary Committee "the names of political appointees in your department who represent detainees or who work for organizations advocating on their behalf…the cases or projects that these appointees work with respect to detainee prior to joining the Justice Department…and the cases or projects relating to detainees that have worked on since joining the Justice Department."

...Holder says other Obama appointees, like Holder himself, came from law firms which represented detainees but did no work on behalf of the terrorist prisoners. But other than Katyal and Daskal, Holder does not reveal any names of any Obama appointees, nor does he mention the cases they worked on.

And what are they recused from, anyway? Very little. Holder writes that Katyal has not worked on any Guantanamo detainee matters but has participated in litigation involving detainees who continue to be detained at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan and in litigation involving [Ali Saleh Kahlah] al-Marri, who was detained on U.S. soil." As for Daskal, "she has generally worked on policy issues related to detainees," Holder writes. "Her detainee-related work has been fully consistent with advice she received from career department officials regarding her obligations."

As for everyone else, Holder lists no names and no cases, but in a paragraph filled with modifiers, he makes it clear that all the lawyers who had advocated for detainees are free to work on general detainee matters.

...Bottom line: Holder revealed no names beyond the two already publicly known. He revealed no cases from which Justice political appointees recused themselves. The etter, which will likely be interpreted on Capitol Hill as a thumb-your-nose statement, is sure to anger Republican senators more than satisfy them.

Advocating for terrorists isn't new for Eric Holder. Under the Clinton Administration, Holder okayed the release of 16 FALN terrorists in 1999, as well as the pardon by Bill Clinton of Marc Rich.

Going after Bush lawyers who did their duty to protect this nation, yet protecting al-Queda and dropping charges against racist New Black Panther thugs for voter intimidation. Is it any wonder that, under Eric Holder, the Justice Department has become the InJustice Department?