Thread: Holder Flip Flops On Geneva Convention Protection Of Terror

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Holder Flip Flops on Geneva Convention Protection for Terrorists
by Human Events

01/18/2010


The American people overwhelmingly think that the Christmas Day airplane bomber, not to mention 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, should be treated as enemy combatants, not common criminals or Prisoners of War afforded protections under the Geneva Conventions.

Interestingly enough, Attorney General Eric Holder agrees -- at least, he did back in 2002. Here’s what he said when discussing the 9/11 terrorists: “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.…It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves,…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.â€

Holder is giving priority right now to the opportunity to try Republiocans and so is using thje civilian courts to try the terrorists. Back in 2002 it was unclear whether the Democrats would get into a position where they could do that.