Obama’s appointees have some serious issues.
Politico: 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.
“It has come to our attention that some but not all briefs submitted to the Supreme Court by or on behalf of Attorney General Holder as counselor amicus were supplied to the Committee in the course of his confirmation process last year. We regret the omission,” Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy.
Republicans pounced when they heard the news.
Fox News: “Not only was the attorney general required to provide the brief as part of his confirmation, but the opinions expressed in it go to the heart of his responsibilities in matters of national security,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who voted to confirm the attorney general, said in a statement Thursday. “This is an extremely serious matter and the attorney general will have to address it.”
“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?” asked Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz, who has signaled he will press Holder on the issue during a committee hearing set for Mar. 23. “To me that strains credulity.”
A Justice Department spokesman acknowledged that the brief “should have been disclosed as part of the confirmation process,” but the spokesman insisted the omission was not intentional.
Yeah, right, the omission was unintentional. And Timothy Geithner didn’t really cheat on his taxes.
Andy McCarthy pointed out the obvious, with just a touch of sarcasm.
Furthermore, you know full well that if this sort of inadvertent accidental totally innocent oversight had happened to, say, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, or Michael Mukasey, the Senate Judiciary Committee would have completely understood that these very unfortunate accidental honest mistakes happen all the time.
Allahpundit wonders what the Republican researchers were doing during Holder’s confirmation. Good question.
Via memeorandum
In the real world, falsification or omission on a job application = immediate termination.
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