Opinion

Terrorists & tax cheats: AG’s deadly comparison

THE ISSUE: AG Holder’s appointment to the Justice Dept. of lawyers who represented terrorists.

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Nine of President Obama’s Justice Department appointees represented or advocated on behalf of terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay. Yet Attorney General Eric Holder compares this to lawyers who represented tax cheats (“Holder’s Tainted Justice,” Editorial, Feb. 24).

Sorry, Holder, but tax cheats are not plotting to blow up subway stations and kill innocent civilians.

Is Holder serious with this comparison? It’s scary how our attorney general and this whole administration are clueless.

Christopher Bisignano

Staten Island

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I can’t understand why The Post is critical of Holder’s choices for attorneys at the Justice Department.

As the AG, doesn’t Holder have the right to appoint anyone he wants?

Was The Post this critical of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales? I doubt it.

Let Holder appoint whomever he wants and stand back when it blows up. If, one year down the road, one of these attorneys messes up royally, that will be the end of Holder and Obama’s presidential hopes for 2012.

Appoint away, Holder, but do so at your own peril.

Bret Wallach

Hicksville

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Whatever happened to the tough-guy days of “smoking the terrorists out of their caves” and the vows of good old US-style justice?

It could be my imagination, but it seems that The Post is rooting for the terrorists these days.

Conservatives want something horrible to happen so that they can yell “gotcha!”

Sharon Rutman

Far Rockaway