To Mr. Eric Holder:

We are at war.  The unprecedented act of appointing a Special Prosecutor and putting our intelligence agencies on notice with fear of prosecution for political gain is, at best, a dereliction of duty and at worst is criminally damaging to our first line of national defense: the Intelligence Community.

I am a concerned citizen of America, and I wish to demonstrate my solidarity with all of the quiet professionals that cannot advocate for themselves because of the sensitive work they undertake on our behalf.  The only reason you can even have this ludicrous dialog about prosecuting these heroes or not is because they have been so successful in keeping our nation safe!

The Intelligence Community now finds itself victims of its own success.  Had there been more catastrophic attacks after 9/11, as every single one of us expected, the prosecutions would be for not doing enough.  Instead, as we sit here fat, dumb, and complacent, you want to go after our intelligence personnel for doing too much to keep us safe?!  Have you in Washington gone mad?

Considering your intent to find fault and lay blame in the wake of 9/11, let me test your intent by asking you some tough questions:

Do you comprehend the difference in legal standing between Constitutionally protected citizens of the United States, prisoners of war, and illegal combatants?  Obviously you do not, so let me give you a crash course:  the detainees at Guantanamo are NOT Constitutionally protected.  Nor are they prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions. They are illegal combatants, and alive only due to the innate mercy of the American people.  According to legal precedent, they should've long ago been tried by a military tribunal and executed if found guilty.  Instead, they lounge at Guantanamo, waiting eagerly for you to unleash them on our legal system, where it will only be a matter of days before unscrupulous attorneys (many of them in your own law firm, Mr. Holder) free them on legal technicalities.

Will you acknowledge that the FBI, with its duty to investigate crimes within a strict legal process, should not lead the interrogation efforts of enemy combatants and that duty should be left to military and paramilitary forces conducting operations of war?

Do you recognize that your scrutiny of our intelligence community at this critical time makes it difficult for our intelligence agencies to succeed in their non-Middle Eastern work and appropriations?  Are you aware that Russian espionage activity in the U.S. is at cold war levels and that the Chinese have over 10,000 collectors inside the United States and the FBI has only 400 agents working counter-intelligence and less than a dozen that speak Chinese?

Do you understand that there are thousands of men and women across the globe, including here in the U.S., that are actively plotting and training to kill innocent American men, women, and children?  Do you recognize that the asymmetric threat of one man with a dirty bomb or suitcase nuke smuggled in over our open borders poses an exponential threat?

Another terror attack is inevitable.  Who will be charged when America is attacked again because you have fostered a culture of fear and retribution that has squelched initiative and action?  Will you surrender yourself to prosecution when it is found that the steps you have taken to minimize the effectiveness of the CIA and other agencies have directly resulted in the deaths of American men, women, and children?

Are you aware that almost all of the 9/11 terrorists were in our country illegally?  In the aftermath of another terror attack - once the grieving and hand-wringing is over - will you charge the Congresspeople and Senators from both parties who failed to adequately enforce our immigration laws - who pandered politically instead of acting decisively?

Will you explain to the American people why Amazon is able to collect information about everything we read, why Time Warner and Blockbuster can collect data on everything we watch, but the federal government can’t ask the states to confirm citizenship before granting a driver's license; especially considering the 9/11 terrorists used altered travel documents to board U.S. aircraft?

If you are going to look backward, how far will you go and where will you stop?

Will you try Sandy Berger for espionage for removing records and documents that compromised our national security?

Will you charge your predecessor, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, for writing the foolish FISA firewall directive that is universally recognized as the single most toxic handicap of our intelligence capabilities? That FISA wall effectively isolated and blinded our intelligence community and compromised our ability to identify and apprehend the 9/11 hijackers!

Will you charge those legislators who were responsible for the egregious defense cuts that made us reliant on the professional contractors you now so readily despise?  Will you ignore that those contractors kept our State Department personnel perfectly safe at the expense of their own lives?

Do you plan to charge the Congressmen and Senators from both parties who failed to actually read the intelligence estimates on Iraq before committing our troops to war with reckless endangerment and dereliction of duty?

You claim we treat illegal combatants "illegally."  But do you recognize that we do more and worse to our men and women that train for war?  Do you recognize that the SERE program was derived not to be cruel, but to be effective?

Are you truly willing to investigate abuses of power?  How about you start with you own partisan pardoning of Frank Rich?

The reality is that there are those American heroes who have made the hard the choices to do the ugly things to keep us safe.

Your partisan actions make a mockery of us. You make our enemies laugh and celebrate.

I’m ready for the prosecution of the FBI legal team that failed to grant the FISA warrant on the 9/11 attackers.  I’m ready for the prosecution of Jamie Gorelick, Mr. Holder, for handicapping our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.  I'm ready for the prosecution of Hillary Clinton, who voted for war, and then half-way through turned on the effort when it became politically expedient.

I’m ready for you to prosecute me, Mr. Holder, since my taxes pay for the intelligence community who are trying to do the almost-impossible job we have trained and tasked them to do.  I want those men and women on our walls, and I'm proud of them.  So PROSECUTE ME for putting them there!

We have plenty of proof of American servicemembers dying for the bad and bungled decisions of bureaucrats, but not a single story of those bureaucrats being charged with negligence or incompetence.

You are one of those dangerous bureaucrats, Mr. Holder.  You were Assistant Attorney General and allowed the FISA wall which clearly resulted in the 9/11 blindside.  You were on that infamously incompetent legal team, Mr. Holder.  Now you want to prosecute the patriots who are having to clean up YOUR mess?  How about you prosecute them after you prosecute yourself for allowing 9/11?!

Molon labe!

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