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Holder Failed to Disclose Seven Supreme Court Briefs

6:57 PM, Mar 12, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about seven Supreme Court amicus briefs he prepared or supported, his office acknowledged in a letter Friday, including two urging the court to reject the Bush administration’s attempt to try Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant.

Senator Jon Kyl rips Holder in a lengthy statement.

1:59 PM, Mar 11, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz), tells the New York Times that Holder's explanation that he inadvertently failed to disclose the brief in support of Jose Padilla “strained credulity.”

“Are we expected to believe that then-nominee Holder, with only a handful of Supreme Court briefs to his name, forgot about his role in one of this country’s most publicized terrorism cases?” Mr. Kyl asked.

Al Qaeda terrorist Jose Padilla started talking only after he was designated an enemy combatant.

8:35 PM, Feb 11, 2010 • By THOMAS JOSCELYN

During an interview on MSNBC Thursday morning, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defended the Obama administration’s handling of Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Gibbs argued that the administration was right to treat Abdulmutallab as a criminal defendant, instead of as an enemy combatant. “Just because you make somebody an enemy combatant [it] doesn’t make them talk,” Gibbs argued.

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