AG Eric Holder Talks Terrorism On GMA: Be Prepared For “Potentially Bad News”

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by Matt Schneider | 10:16 am, December 21st, 2010

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Attorney General Eric Holder provided ABC’s Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas with what was touted as a “rare” interview. And that’s certainly an accurate description, but given Holder’s seriousness and eloquence on the terror issue, which was uniquely on display here, it’s a wonder why Holder is not speaking to the public more often. Holder passionately defended the Obama administration’s counter-terrorist strategies from the very real threat.

Holder elaborated on his constant fear:

The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens, raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.

Given the influence of Anwar Al Awlaki, an American citizen who has inspired many Muslim Americans to pursue terror plots in the US, Holder believes Awlaki to be “on the same list with [Osama] bin Laden . . . of the people who worry [him] the most.” Thomas tried to pin Holder down on his preference for killing, capturing or prosecuting Awlaki and Holder realistically said that he’s just most concerned with “neutralizing” him.

Although some may frown upon Holder’s warning to Americans that they “have to be prepared for potentially bad news” as an unnecessary scare during the holiday season, many would prefer transparency about the threat and the government’s steps towards combating it. In a week when Republican Representative Peter King was questioned whether he was a bigot for raising alarm bells about the increase in homegrown terrorism, Holder’s similar concerns should provide comfort to many that at least on the most important issue of protecting Americans from terrorism there is bipartisan cooperation.

Watch the clip from ABC‘s Good Morning America below:

Attorney General, Eric Holder, GMA, Good Morning America, Pierre Thomas

tatboy

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Pablo

ISLAMOPHOBE!!!! Why all the hate, Mr Holder?
Pablo

And that’s certainly an accurate description, but given Holder’s seriousness and eloquence on the terror issue, which was uniquely on display here, it’s a wonder why Holder is not speaking to the public more often.

Yeah, he’s really done an awesome job of getting Khalid Sheik Mohammed convicted. It seems like just two years ago that KSM was on trial and then…um…well…that will surely wrap up one of these days, after it starts again, somewhere, maybe.
Tony the Fist

How could it be good news? Maybe if instead of blowing things up, terrorists were now merely egging houses and smashing mailboxes.
skyfet

Another fear-mongering crap, just like his predecessor (Ashcroft) and the other (Bush) phonies did. They all make me sick.
Atticus Draco

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Is Holder sayin’ that he’ll be workin’ this Christmas?
VoiceofReason

Pablo said:
Yeah, he’s really done an awesome job of getting Khalid Sheik Mohammed convicted. It seems like just two years ago that KSM was on trial and then…um…well…that will surely wrap up one of these days, after it starts again, somewhere, maybe.

Not to pick flyshit out of pepper Pablo but KSM was not on trial…..he had confessed, plead guilty and was waiting to die. He in fact practically demanded to be executed. Then all of a sudden….he recanted and wanted a trial blah blah blah…….and gee what happened right about the time of his “conversion”…….

All to be oundone by this boob and his handlers in this woefully inept administration.
VoiceofReason

skyfet said:
Another fear-mongering crap, just like his predecessor (Ashcroft) and the other (Bush) phonies did. They all make me sick.

Wow…..did you have a big bowl of dumbass for breakfast?
skyfet

VoiceofReason said:
Wow…..did you have a big bowl of dumbass for breakfast?

I bet you know about the meal since you have it on a regular basis. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!, don’t choke on it.
VoiceofReason

skyfet said:
I bet you know about the meal since you have it on a regular basis. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!, don’t choke on it.

Errrrrr. Straight out of the acclaimed self help tome, “I know you are, but what am I?”
Atticus Draco

VoiceofReason said:
Wow…..did you have a big bowl of dumbass for breakfast?

Every pathetic day of his life!
He eats that for breakfast,, lunch,, dinner,,, snacks,, every frickin’ day of his simple pathetic life
then he comes here and pukes it all out
skyfet

Atticus Draco said:
Every pathetic day of his life!
He eats that for breakfast,, lunch,, dinner,,, snacks,, every frickin’ day of his simple pathetic life
then he comes here and pukes it all out

Glad you enjoy swallowing the puke. Don’t choke on it.
skyfet

VoiceofReason said:
Errrrrr. Straight out of the acclaimed self help tome, “I know you are, but what am I?”

what is this tome you are talking about? ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Atticus Draco

skyfet said:
Glad you enjoy swallowing the puke. Don’t choke on it.

i dont read your puke,, you’re a lost cause,, so i dont even pay attention to ya
skyfet

Atticus Draco said:
i dont read your puke,, you’re a lost cause,, so i dont even pay attention to ya

If you scroll up you’d see that you just lied. Why add comment to my business(i.e. swallow my puke) when you were not invited. ahhh
VoiceofReason

skyfet said:
If you scroll up you’d see that you just lied. Why add comment to my business(i.e. swallow my puke) when you were not invited. ahhh

HRRRRRR DUUURRRRRRRRR HRRRRRRR…..damn dude.

If lame was an olympic sport you’d be a multiple Gold Medal winner.
skyfet

VoiceofReason said:
HRRRRRR DUUURRRRRRRRR HRRRRRRR…..damn dude.

If lame was an olympic sport you’d be a multiple Gold Medal winner.

You are losing it. Get help!
redwriteblue

Another problem is that the U.S. State Department continues to bring thousands-more Middle Easterners to be “resettled” in our country as “Political Asylum” refugees. If even a small percentage of them have the desire to inflict mass casualties on New Yorkers out for a Saturday night in a crowded Times Square they are a disaster-in-waiting:

http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/palestinians-have-missle
Pablo

VoiceofReason said:
Not to pick flyshit out of pepper Pablo but KSM was not on trial…..he had confessed, plead guilty and was waiting to die. He in fact practically demanded to be executed. Then all of a sudden….he recanted and wanted a trial blah blah blah…….and gee what happened right about the time of his “conversion”…….

All to be oundone by this boob and his handlers in this woefully inept administration.

The trial was ongoing, still in preliminary phases, when Obama halted it and dropped the charges. But you’re right that he wanted to plead guilty and die for Allah.
skyfet

Pablo said:
The trial was ongoing, still in preliminary phases, when Obama halted it and dropped the charges. But you’re right that he wanted to plead guilty and die for Allah.

Pathetic, they dropped the Military charge not the whole thing, how can the charges be dropped yet they are still being dragged to court. Ahhh gash, this is embarrassing. Can you differentiate between a Military charge and a Civilian charge? When one is drop, it doesn’t mean you can walk free. Capiche?
notsofast

You mean shyshit’s peaceful Muslims want to kill again?

Hahahah.

Hey skyshit, know what a madrassa is ahole?

ma·dras·sa
noun \mə-ˈdra-sə, -ˈdrä-\
Definition of MADRASSA
: a Muslim school, college, or university that is often part of a mosque
skyfet

redwriteblue said:
Another problem is that the U.S. State Department continues to bring thousands-more Middle Easterners to be “resettled” in our country as “Political Asylum” refugees. If even a small percentage of them have the desire to inflict mass casualties on New Yorkers out for a Saturday night in a crowded Times Square they are a disaster-in-waiting:

http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/palestinians-have-missle

Well, you should blame the Govt. for resettling them after destroying their country. Also, blame the state dept and defence for bringing in people who helped U.S forces in the fight abroad. You see people like you are sheep’s, so they don’t need to explain their actions to you, you know why? because you can’t comprehend.
notsofast

Hey, skyshit, you are not stupid; you are just possessed by a retarded ghost.
skyfet

notsofast said:
You mean shyshit’s peaceful Muslims want to kill again?

Hahahah.

Hey skyshit, know what a madrassa is ahole?

ma·dras·sa
noun \mə-ˈdra-sə, -ˈdrä-\
Definition of MADRASSA
: a Muslim school, college, or university that is often part of a mosque

Dummy you are back. ahh took you a while. You have to pay me for the education I’m giving you, it’s like free health care(it’s not acceptable).
In the thread we were on earlier, I posted the meaning, which is originally is a Semite word (used by the Arabs and Jews) especially Hebrew.
So go to the middle east and tell the Hebrew kid who says to you he is going to a Madrassa that he is a terrorist.
VoiceofReason

Pablo said:
The trial was ongoing, still in preliminary phases, when Obama halted it and dropped the charges. But you’re right that he wanted to plead guilty and die for Allah.

You are right…..I looked back and it was in the prelim stages.
notsofast

skyfet said:
skyfet says:
December 21, 2010 at 12:07 pm skyfet(Quote)

Save your breath. You’ll need it to inflate your date.

You thought they were just your ordinary schools!

LOL

You are one stupid lib!
Pablo

skyfet said:
Pathetic, they dropped the Military charge not the whole thing, how can the charges be dropped yet they are still being dragged to court.

Are they being dragged to court? I did not know that. What court? Where? When will they arrive?

When one is drop, it doesn’t mean you can walk free.

No shit? Wow. You’re a real smart feller, skyfet.
VoiceofReason

skyfet said:
Dummy you are back. ahh took you a while. You have to pay me for the education I’m giving you, it’s like free health care(it’s not acceptable).In the thread we were on earlier, I posted the meaning, which is originally is a Semite word (used by the Arabs and Jews) especially Hebrew.So go to the middle east and tell the Hebrew kid who says to you he is going to a Madrassa that he is a terrorist.

What a knob……bang your head on one side, dude…..your brain is on tilt.
skyfet

Pablo said:
Are they being dragged to court? I did not know that. What court? Where? When will they arrive?

No shit? Wow. You’re a real smart feller, skyfet.

I know. You also need to start paying up for the free education you are getting here.
notsofast

skyfet said:
skyfet says:
December 21, 2010 at 12:12 pm skyfet(Quote)

I’d like to see things from your point of view but I can’t seem to get my head that far up my ass.
skyfet

notsofast said:
Save your breath. You’ll need it to inflate your date.

You thought they were just your ordinary schools!

LOL

You are one stupid lib!

You are losing it. Why are you so angry?
skyfet

notsofast said:
I’d like to see things from your point of view but I can’t seem to get my head that far up my ass.

You can’t blame me for that.
notsofast

skyfet said:
You are losing it. Why are you so angry?

LOL

Why are you soooooooooooooooooooooooooo dumb?
notsofast

skyfet said:
skyfet says:
December 21, 2010 at 12:14 pm skyfet(Quote)

Why don’t you just open your mind and shut your mouth, both are empty anyway.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

Okay, here’s a question nobody’s asking: Why the hell is anyone asking Eric Holder about terrorism?

Terrorism is a military issue, not a criminal or civil issue. I care much, much more about what Janet Napolitano and Robert Gates have to say about terrorism homegrown and abroad than friggin’ Stedman.
Pablo

skyfet said:
I know. You also need to start paying up for the free education you are getting here.

You got change for a wooden nickel?
Pablo

Tony Westover said:
Terrorism is a military issue, not a criminal or civil issue.

They don’t seem to have figured that out, Tony.
skyfet

Pablo said:
You got change for a wooden nickel?

Not acceptable, I want gold.
Thanks Glenn for the golden advice.
Pablo

skyfet said:
Not acceptable, I want gold.
Thanks Glenn for the golden advice.

Sorry, gold is worth something. You’ll have to produce some value if you want some.
TeaPartyPatriot

matt schneider; “…given Holder’s seriousness and eloquence …”

From one lunatic-left d-crat socoialist to the another: a BIG FAT, WET, FULL-LIPPED, LOVING KISS ON THE A**. This is what the lamestream socialist media-types consider “fair and balance” reporting !

Time for the utter, total failure of a racist (Black Panther protector and pal), incompetent joke and disgrace to America known as “holder” to be fired.
skyfet

notsofast said:
LOL

Why are you soooooooooooooooooooooooooo dumb?

You Sir! are projecting. You know I interchange you with the tittle dummy, because you look like you’ve got a big head/hair, but the brain in it is actually small (hope people with small brains do not take offence).
CosmosDan

So, how does everyone think that , fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here, mindset has worked out?

Has our military presence in the ME reduced our threats at home?
notsofast

CosmosDan said:
Has our military presence in the ME reduced our threats at home?

Has there been another successful attack?
Pablo

CosmosDan said:
Has our military presence in the ME reduced our threats at home?

There are a whole bunch of al-Qaeda members that won’t be troubling us, ever. So, yes. One way to reduce threats is to kill them.
CosmosDan

Pablo said:
There are a whole bunch of al-Qaeda members that won’t be troubling us, ever. So, yes. One way to reduce threats is to kill them.

Yep,providing our choices aren’t creating new enemies faster than we’re killing them. Let’s assume that’s true and stay there another ten years and see what happens.
CAconservative

Holder is a joke. He feigns concern knowing that the lack of secure borders makes it utterly impossible to stop terrorists. He talks the talk, let’s see him walk the walk, and do what they all know is necessary to give us a fighting chance at stopping further terrorist attacks.
What we should be fearing as much as terrorist, is the uncontrolled, and out of control mass illegal alien trespassing that is saturating this country with uneducated, and unskilled people who are draining this country of it’s resources. To date, more American citizens have been killed by illegal alien parasites than all the American soldiers killed in Iraq, and Afghanistan combined since 9/11.
nycstone

This is the absolute WORST interview I’ve ever seen. There are more cuts in here than a Japanese Sushi restaurant – and no offense to sushi.

Truth is after watching the over-edited POS interview I have no idea WHERE Holder stands on anything. I can’t trust my ears, my eyes, my heart.

Comparing Anwar Al Awlaki to Osama is like comparing a Preacher on a street corner to the Pope. Osama had zillions of dollars to fund his own operation courtesy of the USG. Comparibly, this guy sends out emails. Please.

If this interview is accurate, Holder is an even bigger boob than I thought before.
felixw

Eric Holder says: “The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens, raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.”

Given Holder and this administration’s track record, he is probably referring to tea party attendees.
http://none pyrope

Atticus Draco said:
‘Is Holder sayin’ that he’ll be workin’ this Christmas?

Yeah, he gets to take Eid off this year; Jannie baby is working Christmas.
http://none pyrope

AG Eric Holder Talks Terrorism On GMA: Be Prepared For “Potentially Bad News”

He IS talking about the Tea Party felix, the Muslims are his pals.
Nahu Tuk

pyrope said:
AG Eric Holder Talks Terrorism On GMA: Be Prepared For “Potentially Bad News” He IS talking about the Tea Party felix, the Muslims are his pals.

Nah, he’s talking about DIA Clapper, who hasn’t got a clue about what’s going on outside his fishbowl.
Nahu Tuk

And, that Incompetanto doesn’t know that security is essential all the time–not just 364 days per year. (I think Jannie babe has all 57 states covered though.)