Eric Holder Says Pardons for FALN Terrorists Were Reasonable

I am not sure what you have to do wrong if you are a Barack Obama cabinet nominee to have your appointment denied. Timothy Geithner is going to be confirmed as Treasury Secretary even though he was a known tax evader who was reimbursed by the company he worked for for the taxes he never paid, he is now going to be in charge of the IRS along with fellow tax cheat Charlie Rangel. And now we have Eric Holder, Obama choice for Attorney General, when questioned on his recommendation to President Clinton that 16 unrepentent FALN terrorist be pardoned claimed that that decision was “reasonable”.

These terrorists were linked to over 130 bombings and other violent crimes, here is what Erik Holder had to say about the pardons:

These were criminals, these were terrorists, these were bad people,” Holder said. “The president’s determination was they did not commit any acts themselves. Given the length of the sentences, 16-to-19 years, given the lengthy sentences, it was his determination that the clemency requests were appropriate. Given all that I’ve described, what the president did was reasonable

They didn’t commit the crimes themselves, so while they are criminals who were involved in murders, bombing, robbery, and the like it is reasonable that they should be pardoned. That’s good to know, by this logic a person can hire a hitman to kill somebody and because he didn’t commit the crime himself it would be reasonable to pardon him.

It is not surprising when you read the quote from Holder above that Barack Obama chose him for the job, after all Barack Obama has an affinity for “palling around with” unrepentant terrorists and he wants to close GITMO and give enemy combatants full rights to a trial guaranteed in the UNITED STATES constitution (for Americans).

Eric Holder should fit right in.