You’d think that Eric Holder would check with the Secretary of Homeland Security before making a decision to send the man behind the 9/11 attacks back to the scene of the crime for an open trial in federal court. There are all kinds of national security implications that stem from Holder’s decision, some of which are actually related to the physical security of the American people. And yet…as Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison found out when questioning Napolitano this morning before the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Holder didn’t even run this by the administration’s top Homeland Security official:
This only further confirms what many have suspected: that left-wing ideologues at the Department of Justice — not national security professionals — are making the decisions on detainees. And what are the priorities of these lawyers? Before joining the Obama administration, many of them were defending these same terrorists from government prosecution. Now that they are in government, they still seem to be defending these terrorists rather than prosecuting them. And it is obvious that their primary concern is that these terrorists get all the rights the ACLU thinks they deserve. What other explanation could there be for the failure to send even a quick note over to DHS asking, “Hey, how many American lives are we putting at risk in the name of due process for jihadists?”
