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If I remember correctly, one of Obama campaign promises included bringing terrorist into the US court system and trying them...that wasn't Holder's original idea.

Speaking of Holder and trying terrorist, his law firm has experience defending the terrorists in Gitmo already. Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo.

Covington & Burling’s Gitmo bar roster has included some of the most radical detainee advocates, David Remes, who peeled down to his underwear at a press conference in Yemen to draw attention to his clients’ plight and Marc Falkoff, who published a book of detainee poetry and who, in the book’s intro, compared their heroic struggle to the Jews held in concentration camps and Japanese Americans held in internment camps during WWII. (One of Falkoff's "gentle, thoughtful" young poets--a Kuwaiti "cleared for release" and repatriated in 2005--blew himself up in a truck bomb in Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42 others.)