{"id":7097,"date":"2009-04-24T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2009-07-13T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T23:40:58","slug":"holder-promises-activistprotestor-after-house-hearing-you-will-be-proud-of-your-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7097","title":{"rendered":"AG Holder &#8216;Promises&#8217; Torture Protestor After House Hearing: &#8216;You Will be Proud of Your Country&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/slideshow\/photo\/\/090423\/480\/efa12a1c174b413d89f1aa8f3ac3110a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/EricHolderTestifies_DavidSwansonTorture_042309.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Hope? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/node\/41978\">David Swanson reported last night<\/a> that the AG &#8220;made [him] a promise&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">As Attorney General Eric Holder left an appropriations subcommittee hearing on Thursday I spoke loudly from the third row as he prepared to leave the room:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need a special prosecutor for torture, Mr. Attorney General. Americans like the rule of law. The rule of law for everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He replied as he approached and walked by, surrounded by bodyguards:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you will be proud of your country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was joined by others in replying simultaneously:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, we want to be proud of our country. We&#8217;re ready. No need to wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holder knew <a href=\"http:\/\/prosecutebushcheney.org\/\">exactly what it would take<\/a> for me to be proud of my country, and he told me directly that I would be.<\/p>\n<p>Will I? Time will tell.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE 7\/11\/09:<\/strong><\/em> NEWSWEEK reports that Holder &#8220;may be on the verge of&#8221; and &#8220;leaning toward appointing&#8221; a prosecutor to investigate Bush\/Cheney-era torture. Their story notes that his initial deliberations on this matter seem to have coincided with his comments as noted above. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7297\">Details on all now here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope? David Swanson reported last night that the AG &#8220;made [him] a promise&#8221;: As Attorney General Eric Holder left an appropriations subcommittee hearing on Thursday I spoke loudly from the third row as he prepared to leave the room: &#8220;We need a special prosecutor for torture, Mr. Attorney General. Americans like the rule of law. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,405,223,404,126,366],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-dept-of-justice","category-eric-holder","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-torture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}