Holder Under Fire

By Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman Newsweek 1/29/2010

Excerpt from the Aug. 1, 2002, ‘Torture Memo’:

For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. Now the left is going to […]

A setback for drive to punish Bush-era ‘war criminals’

Byron York Washington Examiner 1/30/2010

One cherished goal of legal activists on the left is to punish the “war criminals” who helped shape terrorist interrogation policies during the Bush administration. Some of those activists now work in the Obama Justice Department and have been hoping the Department would find two Bush-era lawyers in particular, John […]

Rasmussen: 58% prefer the Cheney option on EunuchBomber

by Ed Morrissey HotAir.com December 31, 2009

I just call it the Cheney Option because it recalls a time when we treated terrorists as unlawful combatants rather than defendants. Apparently, a healthy majority of Americans agree with that approach. Rasmussen surveyed likely voters about how they would like to see Umar Abdulmutallab interrogated, and 58% […]

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