Holder promises Snowden will face justice

[michigandem58]

Source: Financial Times


US attorney-general Eric Holder has vowed to bring Edward Snowden to justice, accusing the former intelligence contractor who leaked information on top-secret surveillance programmes of endangering the safety of Americans and their allies.

Speaking in Dublin ahead of the G8 summit, Mr Holder said the actions taken by the 29-year-old now believed to be in hiding in Hong Kong had damaged “the safety of the American people”.

“The national security of the United States has been damaged as a result of those leaks,” he told reporters on Friday. “The safety of the American people [and] the safety of people who reside in allied nations have been put at risk as a result of these leaks.”


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[LittleBlue]

1. When are the torturers facing justice?

When are the bank fraudsters?

Oh that's right, the laws aren't for everyone.

[forestpath]

2. [phone]

[Maedhros]

3. That's because torture and massive institutional bank fraud

don't endanger our safety.

/snark.

[NV Whino]

6. Oh fuck off Holder

You are a miserable failure.

[blkmusclmachine]

25. That's change you can beLIEve in!

Forward

(with more transparent bullsh!t).

[Swede Atlanta]

42. Amen to that......

When he failed to prosecute those who intentionally lied us into war, cost trillions of dollars, cut short the lives of over 4,000 Americans and personally benefitted from the war, he was ineffective.

When he failed to prosecute those who dreamed up, sanctioned and salivated when we tortured individuals, he was a failure.

When he failed to prosecute the banks and other monied interests that tanked the global economy, he was a disaster.

When he set out to go after those medical marijuana dispensaries, he was a tragedy.

He should just give it up. He has been a total failure and a disgrace.

Relative to his immediate predecessors he is probably not any worse than them but I don't know why we are paying him a salary and benefits. I have yet to see a single thing he has done that is worth more than minimum wage. Most minimum wage-earners do a hell of a lot more work and more beneficial work than Holder.

[Plucketeer]

23. When will HOLDER face justice

for DERELICTION OF DUTY???? This whole administration is impotent and useless!

EDIT: for typo

[sakabatou]

4. How about the banks? Will they face justice?

[blkmusclmachine]

26. Hell NO!

They're "savvy businessmen."

[AndyA]

5. When is Wall Street going to face justice, Holder?

Did Wall Street not endanger the safety of Americans when it crashed the economy, causing Americans to lose their savings, houses, jobs? Is living on the street safe, Holder?

What a hypocrite. Pick and choose who to prosecute. Pathetic. I'm sure the country's founders are just thrilled with the double standard that exists in this country today.

[Sherman A1]

7. +1000

[donnasgirl]

21. I am sorry to report

Wall street, the banks, insurance companies, are just to big to prosecute.

[blkmusclmachine]

27. Too Big To Jail.

Holder is a failure.

[donnasgirl]

44. Agreed

[wordpix]

57. when are Rove, Chain-ee and BushCo going to face justice?

[cstanleytech]

8. Holder failed at bringing Cheney and Bush to justice so why should we believe him now?

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. How about bringing wall street to justice, mister justice man? n/t

[Autumn]

10. Holder wouldn't know justice if it reached up and bit him in the ass.

[blkmusclmachine]

28. Corrupt.

[Dustlawyer]

11. This fucking guy has to go! He goes after pot smokers and the sick people who use the medical

marihuana and the whistle blowers! Snowden would deserve punishment if he has been cooperating with the Chinese, but Holder would go after him even if he had not fled!

[blkmusclmachine]

29. POLICE STATE

[on point]

12. How about Bush and cronies? When will they be prosecuted?

[faithnomore]

13. Oh, so finally this incompetent bastard has decided to do something.

Freedom and Justice for all, (just don't try to expose the lies and corruption.)

[alp227]

14. Holder lacks a sense of perspective with that safety remark.

What about:
- Predatory lenders
- The Bush Crime Family
- Corporate polluters

How on earth did this stupid man earn another term under the Obama administration?

[Clyde Tenson]

15. Oh, NOW he grows a pair!

What a smarmy stooge. Holder makes Bush's trained chihuahua look good. This man single handedly represents the Obama's administration's failings to live up to it's progressive campaign promises.

[blkmusclmachine]

30. No, Obama represents Obama's failure to live up to his bullsh!t promises.

[Marrah_G]

16. What about Wall Street, what about the previous administration?

Any plans on going after them Mr. Holder?

[blkmusclmachine]

31. .

[Major Hogwash]

17. Well, that's all we can hope for.

Nothing more than that.

[Kurska]

18. Seems Holder has moved Snowden up his most wanted list, right next to people with cancer smoking pot

Boy do I feel safer.

[blkmusclmachine]

33. .

[SamKnause]

19. Holder

FUCK YOU Holder !!!!!

You want to talk about the endangering the safety of Americans ?

Why is the Bush administration not being held accountable for causing the deaths of U.S. troops, Iraqi troops, and Iraqi civilians ?

Why is Wall Street bigger, more powerful and still unregulated ?

Why are Gitmo detainees being force fed ?

Why has President Obama decided that executions carried out by drones is acceptable ? Executions without evidence, identification, or even association ? Executions justified by age, gender and proximity of closeness. How fucking sick is that ?

Why has President Obama interfered with every country that wants to hold the Bush administration accountable ?

Why are banks allowed to launder drug money ?

Why are you Mr. Holder going after medical marijuana dispensaries and patients.

Why hasn't anything been done about police brutality in this country ?

Why are our tax dollars being squandered on the Fake and Failed War on Drugs ?

FUCK YOU HOLDER ????

You are part of the problem, not part of the solution !!!!

[blkmusclmachine]

34. I've seen the enemy. And he is us.

[Ash_F]

20. So who made Obama appoint Holder?

Serious question. Who held him by the ears on this one?

[JoeyT]

22. Yeah, because we're a country of laws. We prosecute people for wrongdoing.

I mean if we'd ever had a president guilty of war crimes we'd prosecute him for sure.


Well, if someone admitted to it on national television, we'd certainly never pass that up.


Return to the rule of law looks suspiciously like strike at anyone that offends us as long as we're sure they can't hit back.

[blkmusclmachine]

24. The essence of a POLICE STATE:

Whistleblowers will be disappeared, and criminals will skate.

[BeyondGeography]

32. Unsurprising

[blkmusclmachine]

36. Typical.

And corrupt.

[easychoice]

35. I fart in eric holders general direction

He is as big a pig as Gonzales was.I wonder if he has forgotten his own name yet.

[Doctor_J]

37. Hey Skeeter - How about Karl Rove?

He's still a traitor from where I sit. Is there a statute of limitations on treason?

[Doctor_J]

38. We need graham4Obama here to add some balance to this thread

you lefties are being to rough on Holder.

[MNBrewer]

40. 80-20, 80-20, 80-20!

Does that cover it?

[Earth_First]

47. LOL

[MNBrewer]

39. I will not take Eric Holder's word that Snowden has damaged "the safety of the American people"

I'm sure the evidence is conveniently classified.

Citizens of this country have a RIGHT to know these secrets they're so fond of hoarding.

[blkmusclmachine]

41. Seriously, we need a NEW Party. This "Democratic" Party is a sick farce of Corporate criminality

and classic neofascism.

[tblue]

58. We sure do.

My gosh, what saps they make us out to be.

[DCBob]

43. There's no debate that Snowden broke some serious laws..

seems any AG, even a DU approved one, would try to bring him to justice.

[Doctor_J]

45. what about all of the other lawbreakers who this ag has left alone

for four years? Why are you suddenly Mr law and order?

[Jack Rabbit]

50. I'd still feel a lot better about it if he brought some real gangsters to justice . . . .

. . . like Legs Dimon and Pretty Boy Lloyd.

Not to mention the Frat Boy and the Big Dick.

[JackRiddler]

52. Only in upholding the highest law of the land.

Those are the "laws" that the law requires us to break.

[malthaussen]

46. Eric Holder does not know the meaning of the word "justice."

Worst attorney general ever? Well, maybe since John Mitchell...

-- Mal

[magellan]

48. Why? According to some, none of these top-secret surveillance programs was secret.

[Bodhi BloodWave]

59. classified documents are still classified

and i believe if some of the info we have been told are in the files he has is accurate(and is revealed) that would be even worse

[magellan]

60. Fair enough. Guess I'll keep waiting for the same bristling defense of our rights. n/t

[Bodhi BloodWave]

61. In this conversation it would be your rights to be honest

I'm more of an outsider in this as i am Norwegian and live there

Just felt like answering the question since it was asked(and while it does not fit these two last posts, i have a habit of liking to play the devil's advocate if you know the term(tends to drive some of my friends nuts))

[magellan]

62. No harm, no foul

Nice to see you here.

[Psephos]

49. Looks like Snowden has already assured that Holder will face justice. n/t

[rightsideout]

51. Well Mr. Holder, you better get going Fast and Furious . . .

. . . before China adopts him.

[7wo7rees]

53. Just like all the CEO'S OF ALL THE BANKS?

You know, Eric, all the ones that tanked our economy? WHAT ABOUT THAT SECURITY??

[PSPS]

54. It reads better if you do some word substitution

Whenever you see these pronouncements, just make the following substitution in your head while reading and it will make more sense:

When you read "people" substitute "the top 1%"
When you read "the American people" substitute "the top 1%"
When you read "Americans" substitute "the top 1%"
When you read "the United States" substitute "the top 1%"

[CanonRay]

55. Worst Attorney General ever appointed by a Dem

I'll make allowances that John Mitchell, Asford, and Gonzales may have been worse, although make a case. Bobby Kennedy must be doing laps in his grave.

[wordpix]

56. but don't investigate Chain-ee on the Valerie Plame leak or WMD false pretense-for-war claims

or anything else of importance.