Eric Holder Points Out Republican Hypocrisy

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Republican Senator and douchebag Mitch McConnell is threatening to hold up funding for 9/11 trials.

“We will do everything they can do deny them the funds to do it. That is my pledge.”

In response, Attorney General Eric Holder penned a letter to McConnell.

“Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the practice of the U.S. government,
followed by prior and current Administrations without a single exception, has been to
arrest and detain under federal criminal law all terrorist suspects who are apprehended
inside the United States.”

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The decision to charge Mr. Abdulmutallab in federal court, and the methods used
to interrogate him, are fully consistent with the long-established and publicly known
policies and practices of the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the United States
Government as a whole, as implemented for many years by Administrations of both
parties. Those policies and practices, which were not criticized when employed by
previous Administrations, have been and remain extremely effective in protecting
national security. They are among the many powerful weapons this country can and
should use to win the war against al-Qaeda.

Nothing here too difficult to figure out.  McConnell and his GOP cronies are playing the fear game in hope of scoring a few political points from a conservative base they’re betting are too stupid to notice the hypocrisy of their statements.  Scum do that sort of thing.

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