Comments on: The Right to Counsel

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:35:50 +0000

Seeing to the transparency, no doubt.

By: RonF

RonF — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:09:59 +0000

I’m rather curious as to why we would be dependent on Mr. Holder to reveal this information. Surely the signatories to Supreme Court briefs are public record? Why, then, did not the media reveal this?

O.K., I suspect the same thing you do. But then I ask why the Judicial Committee’s staff didn’t uncover this? Where were they?

By: Dick S

Dick S — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:51:25 +0000

This is the best distinction I have seen on why the “John Adams” analogy is not appropriate:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/03/the_al-qaeda_seven_arent_like_john.html

As a retired prosecutor, I have long observed that those who represent radical clients too often subscribe to their philosophies. Attorneys have the right to represent whomever they wish, but they have no right to a high-level government job involving national security.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:38:00 +0000

Holder, “addressing it” is one thing. The other is what the Obama transition team knew, and when they knew it. If they didn’t know he signed these briefs, then they are incompetent and incomplete in their vetting. If they did, and didn’t have a problem making him the chief law enforcement officer of the nation, then that is quite another, much more serious matter. Either way, we deserve to know.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:35:13 +0000

I’ll report this weekend if the Fort Hood Class 6 carries Barbancourt. Diet Tonic (gotta watch the girlish figure), Haitian Rum, and a few limes can make one forget about such trivialities as this. Thanks, VX, for leading me to one of the few vices I hadn’t found by my own quite able self.

Anyone know if the Barbancourt building escaped the recent revitalization effort in Haiti?

By: Kris, in New England

Kris, in New England — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:29:48 +0000

And Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, said the opinions in the briefs “go to the heart of his responsibilities in matters of national security.”

“This is an extremely serious matter,” he said, “and the attorney general will have to address it.”

And this is the only thing that matters. Holder failed to disclose critical information. However I have no confidence that how he “addresses it” will be ethical.