US Attorney General admits PJM reporting on scuttled terror finance prosecutions is true, still blames Bush
Two weeks ago I reported here exclusively at PJM that the Department of Justice had scuttled the terror finance prosecution of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) co-founder Omar Ahmad, not due to any insufficiency of the legal case but to protect the Obama Administration from embarrassment and to prevent inflaming the Muslim Community. My report was followed up with a letter from House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Peter King (R-NY) sent to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding answers about why the prosecutions were dropped.
And this past Sunday, King appeared on Fox News and confirmed our reporting saying that he had spoken directly with the FBI agents and federal prosecutors who had prepared the case against the CAIR co-founder, only to see the political appointees at DOJ scuttle the case over their objections. That prompted a hastily arranged speech by AG Holder on Monday where he responded to these revelations by claiming that terror prosecutions over the past two years are at an all-time high (failing to recognize that prosecution record is the direct result in a corresponding increase in domestic terror incidents).
But according to Josh Gerstein at Politico late Tuesday, AG Holder held another hastily arranged press conference yesterday and admitted that our initial report about DOJ shutting down the prosecution of Omar Ahmad was true, but blaming (as administration officials had leaked to Gerstein last week) the decision on the Bush Administration. According to last night’s Politico article, Holder says that they merely repeated the decision not to prosecute just like the Bush Administration had done when they decided to initially go after the executives of the Holy Land Foundation – a case that resulted in convictions on all 108 counts. A DOJ spokesman also admitted during yesterday’s press conference that the decision had not been made by career officials, but by political appointees (as Gerstein notes, I originally reported that the memo declining Ahmad’s prosecution had been signed by Assistant Attorney General David Kris.
Holder’s claim that they were merely following the Bush Administration’s earlier decision falls apart when considering the objections of the FBI agents and the federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Dallas who were upset when Holder’s senior staff made the decision. If they were merely repeating the findings of the Bush Administration, why would the FBI agents and federal prosecutors who had prepared the indictments be upset?
But his admission, which vindicates our earlier reporting, will certainly make an interesting appearance that Holder has scheduled with the full House Judiciary Committee this coming Tuesday, May 3rd. Expect Holder to get grilled extensively on this topic.
Stay tuned to Pajamas Media over the next few days for another exclusive bombshell revelation concerning Holder’s DOJ.
Well done. An important story because this shield of protectiveness which surrounds muslim groups must stop. They are not special people and one could easily argue are the complete opposite.
I would like to see a journalist figure out how much money America has had to spend in the last 10 years on enhanced internal security ranging from public events to police work that can laid directly at the feet of muslims.
These people have wreaked havoc on America in ways that go far beyond actual violence.
I have to say I agree. If people break the law, they shouldn’t be able to hide behind the fact that they’re prominent or politically popular. You have to actually prove they did something illegal, of course, but having done that to the extent that an indictment can be obtained, the prosecution should go forward.
Mr. Poole:
“But his admission, which vindicates our earlier reporting, will certainly make an interesting appearance that Holder has scheduled with the full House Judiciary Committee this coming Tuesday, May 3rd. Expect Holder to get grilled extensively on this topic.”
Well done on your reporting, but I have to be cynical here, I doubt anything will come of it.
I will be pleasantly surprised if there is a wholesale purge at the DoJ. I would be flabbergasted if the House votes impeachment proceedings against Holder, (for this or any number of other reasons), but I’m afraid that they will simply make chin music to score some points and then the issue will die.
Being led by such people, the days of the United States are numbered.
IF nothing else, the NRC needs to keep a detailed log of all these points and have all the candidates beat the drum restlessly (Senate, Rep and Pres), all of them restlessly!!! The mass media would be unable to silence all of the Republican candidates nation wide during an entire election cycle. NLRB, DOJ, EPA, FCC all of the end around shady Chicago thug moves they have been making for the past 2 years!