Cole appointment wrong choice for Deputy Attorney General

GOP Rep. Peter King Blasts Obamas Recess Appointment of James Cole to Deputy Attorney General: He Treat Islamic Terror as a Crim
(The Hill)- Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the incoming chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, has angrily denounced President Obama’s Recess Appointment of James Cole as deputy Attorney General. King called Cole’s appointment “absolutely shocking” and said it may be one of the worst appointments Obama will make during his presidency. “I strongly oppose the Recess Appointment of James Cole to lead the National Security team at the Department of Justice.,” Kin...

Obama still favors failed lawfare treatment of terrorist
Image via Wikipedia The Hill: Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the incoming chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, has angrily denounced President Obama’s Recess Appointment of James Cole as deputy Attorney General. King called Cole’s appointment “absolutely shocking” and said it might be one of the worst appointments Obama will make during his presidency. “I strongly oppose the Recess Appointment of James Cole to lead the National Security team at the Department o...

Latest GOP Target Is New Deputy Attorney General James Cole
James Cole has been given a Recess Appointment by President Obama to be the Number 2 person in the Justice Department, after Republicans held up his nomination longer than any recent deputy Attorney General nominee. Cole’s view that “the Sept. 11 attacks were criminal acts of Terrorism against a civilian population” doesn’t sit well with the GOP. The soon-to-be deputy Attorney General wrote that the country “has faced many forms of devastating crime, including the s...

Another reckless recess appointment
The most open, transparent administration ever is ending the year by ramming through another Controversial appointment under holiday cover. Introducing recess DOJ appointee James Cole, now deputy Attorney General overseeing National Security: President Obama used a Recess Appointment Wednesday to name James Cole as deputy attorney general. …Cole’s nomination to the second-ranking post at the Department of Justice had been held up over objections from Republicans, who raised concern...

Marcus: Obama's recess appointment that makes sense
I gave President Obama some grief last summer for bypassing the Senate and making a precipitous Recess Appointment for Donald Berwick, his choice to oversee the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This Story Republicans denounce Obama's recess appointments Obama makes recess appointments, taps Robert Cole as ambassador to Syria Marcus: Obama's Recess Appointment that makes sense I have a completely different take on the president's latest such move, to issue a Recess Appointment for James Cole to...

Cole Gets Recess Appointment
The appointment will allow Cole to serve a year in the department’s No. 2 job. A friend of Attorney General Eric Holder, Cole  was nominated in May and was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in July along a party-line vote. A parter at Bryan Cave LLP, Cole spent 13 years at the Department of Justice, including three years as deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section in the Criminal Division. Senate Republicans objected to a For background on why his nomination became contro...

Holder arrogance to be tested in Congress
Image via Wikipedia NY Times: When the Obama Administration wakes up next month to a divided capital, no cabinet member will be facing a more miserable prospect of Oversight hearings and Subpoenas than Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Mr. Holder is a particularly juicy target because he presides over issues that have served as recurrent fodder for political Controversy — including using the Criminal Justice system for Terrorism cases, and federal enforcement of civil-rights and immigr...

Obama vs. Rove on Gitmo, KSM
One of President Obama's challenges next year is the continuing question of what to do with the Terrorist Prisoner camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and how to try the Detainees kept there -- particularly 9/11 mastermind Khalid Skeikh Mohammed. And how to deal with critics who say closing Gitmo and holding Civilian Trials for KSM and other defendants will undermine National Security. Obama, who had pledged to close facility within a year of taking office, said last week that remains his goal, despi...

Murkowski Certified As Winner
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A.G. Holder likely to get third degree from Congress
“You’ve got to just develop as thick a skin as you can, understand that some people will disagree with you on a principled basis but other people will disagree with you for purely political and partisan reasons.” — Eric H. Holder Jr. The Attorney General is apparently going to need that thick skin in the coming year. He's going to be catching it from both sides in the 112th Congress, though presumably the main attacks will be coming from the Republicans who will control...

Obama makes recess appointment of lawyer who compared 9/11 to drug trade
The man who ran on a promise to “change the way Washington works” has once engaged in the cynical practice of making Recess Appointments. And Controversial ones at that. The president's appointment of James Cole, who was nominated for the post of Deputy Attorney General back in May, has reopened questions about Cole’s past consulting work with bailed-out Insurance giant AIG and his soft position on the prosecution of Terror Suspects.  It is the latter in particular that is...

Obama Recess Appointment Gives James Cole the No. 2 Post at Justice Department
Thursday, December 30, 2010 By Julie Pace, Associated Press Honolulu (AP) - President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday to make six Recess Appointments, including a deputy Attorney General whose links to the Insurance giant American International Group had stalled his confirmation. Obama first nominated James Cole to the No. 2 Justice Department post in May. But Republican lawmakers blocked his confirmation in part because of questions about his role as an independent consultant fo...

A Recess Appointment That Makes Sense
I gave President Obama some grief last summer for bypassing the Senate and making a precipitous Recess Appointment for Donald Berwick, his choice to oversee the Medicare and Medicaid programs. I have a completely different take on the president’s latest such move, to issue a Recess Appointment for James Cole to serve as deputy Attorney General, the No. 2 position at the Justice Department. This time around, the maneuver was justified. My assessment has nothing to do with the individuals or...

GOP Fuming Over Appointment of Lawyer Who Compared 9/11 to Drug Trade...
The president announced the so-called Recess Appointments Wednesday, using his power to install sidelined nominees while Congress is on break. They will still need to be confirmed by the Senate before the end of the next session, but the Recess Appointments allow Obama to break a series of logjams and fill positions that have been vacant for months.  Obama appointed four new U.S. ambassadors, along with the U.S. public printer and the deputy Attorney General.  The latter, James Cole, h...

Aloha Oy! Obamas Million Dollar Hawaiian Vacation
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Should the President's Power to Make Recess Appointments Be Reconsidered?
President Obama has used his power to make Recess Appointments to fill six vacant positions, including the appointment of James Cole, a friend of Attorney General Eric Holder, whose nomination has been held up by Republicans over Cole's views on the Sept. 11 attacks. The constitutional power to make Recess Appointments dates back to the early days of the United States, when the Senate could recess for many months, and the president needed the power to fill critical posts until the Senate reconve...

White House responds to obstructionism with six recess appointments
White House RESPONDS TO OBSTRUCTIONISM WITH SIX Recess AppointmentS.... James Cole spent 13 years as Justice Department official, and is an accomplished attorney. When President Obama nominated him to be the deputy Attorney General -- the second highest-ranking position in the department, effectively Justice's chief operating officer -- few questioned Cole's qualifications or abilities. But conservative Republicans didn't like him. In particular, Cole had criticized Bush/Cheney's dubious natio...

New site sought for government command centre during emergency
Last updated Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 8:04PM EST Plans are in the works for a new backup site to house the Prime Minister’s Office and his large team of political staff and Bureaucrats in the event of a Terrorist Attack or other emergency. Having a backup command centre for the Prime Minister is not a new concept, but government reports and memos obtained through Access to Information provide a rare window as to how the government might run in the event of a major emergency and what would b...

12 Year-Old Girl Bomber Warns of Army of Taliban-Trained Female Suicide Bombers
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Megyn Kelly Rips Undocumented Immigrant PC Propaganda
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Protests About Seattle Decision to Not Run Anti-Israeli Bus Ads
From Bare Naked Islam People Protest ban on anti-Israel ad campaign The decision by Seattle Transit to stop the “Israeli War Crimes” bus ad campaign has caused the Islamic Terrorist-supporters to take to the streets in a snit. Anti-Israeli Ad Approved for Bus Ads before Pamela submitted her ads. Image from Atlas Shrugs. My gut tells me the last guy speaking in the video is a liberal Jew. Watch the video here.   Notice that the news report does not state that the people opposed to the ads

Why is Israel Giving Jerusalem Jewish Neighborhood to Palestinian Muslims, Terror Bank?
As I’ve always noted, like America, a major reason Israel is losing to Muslims is not due to its Islamic enemies on the outside, but its Israeli, Jewish enemies on the inside.  They do more to hurt Israel than Hamas or Fatah ever could.  (With America, it’s Americans-stupid ones and liberals (groups which often intersect, but not always)-which are destroying us from within in a way Al-Qaeda could never do.) The Israelis are willingly giving up and giving away im...

Palin's top ten Facebook notes of 2010
We might possibly look back at 2010 as the year that catapulted Sarah Palin to be the 2012 GOP Presidential Candidate. Palin's political action committee, Sarah PAC, raised over $5 million, the former Governor endorsed more than 100 conservative Candidates and as Juan Williams said, "nobody dominates the stage" like Sarah Palin. Palin continues to strategically use Facebook and Twitter to her favor, raising her star power to unparalleled heights with other possible 2012 contenders. Her Facebook ...

Maybe Lamar Smith should take a closer look
MAYBE Lamar Smith SHOULD TAKE A CLOSER LOOK.... For about four years, the Bush Administration held Terrorist Ahmed Ghailani at Guantanamo Bay, and didn't have much a plan going forward. The Obama Administration tried a different approach -- filing charges against Ghailani, subjecting him to the federal Criminal Justice system, and convicting him on Terrorist Conspiracy charges. Ghailani will now likely spend the rest of his days behind bars. The case against him, however, wasn't easy. The accu...

Obama Bypasses Senate to Fill Posts
President Barack Obama, sidestepping Congress, named the first U.S. ambassador to Syria in nearly six years and a deputy Attorney General in Recess Appointments after the nominations ran into trouble among Republicans. View Full Image ...