Eric Holder’s pro-terror lawyers

Cole attack & Eric Holder’s pro-terror lawyers—Michelle Malkin - NYPOST.com

As I reported in “Culture of Corruption,” Holder joined the prestigious Covington and Burling law firm after a quarter-century as a government lawyer. The stint boosted his net worth to nearly $6 million. Covington and Burling’s post-9/11 claim to fame? Representing 17 terror suspects held at Gitmo who hail from Yemen, long a safe haven for terrorists.
Holder’s law firm employed dozens of radical attorneys such as David Remes and Marc Falkoff to provide the enemy combatants with more than 3,000 hours of pro bono representation. Covington and Burling secured victories for several Gitmo enemy combatants in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Remes now represents Nashiri.

One of the class of Yemeni Gitmo detainees that Falkoff described as “gentle, thoughtful young men” was released in 2005 — only to blow himself up (gently and thoughtfully, of course) in a truck bombing in Mosul, Iraq, in 2008, killing 13 soldiers from the 2nd Iraqi Army division and seriously wounding 42 others.

In January 2010, The Times of London reported that “at least a dozen former Guantanamo Bay inmates [had] rejoined al Qaeda to fight in Yemen.” Another Yemeni Gitmo recidivist and top al Qaeda leader, Said al-Shihri, was freed after undergoing “rehabilitation” — and then promptly rejoined jihadi forces. He was reportedly killed in a US missile strike last month.

In February 2010, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) forced Holder to acknowledge that at least nine Justice Department attorneys officially represented or served as advocates for Gitmo detainees before joining the Obama administration.

Holder, the fox, runs the chicken coop.