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BYRON YORK: On bombing suspect, tough questions for Eric Holder. ?It seems like a pretty simple qu?

By Glenn Reynolds

BYRON YORK: On bombing suspect, tough questions for Eric Holder. “It seems like a pretty simple question. Who made the decision to charge Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the accused terrorist arrested for trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day, as an everyday criminal, as opposed to an enemy combatant? . . . This week that simple question — Who? — became more complicated after several of the administration’s top anti-terrorism officials testified on Capitol Hill. The director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Michael Leiter, said he wasn’t consulted before the decision was made. The director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, said he wasn’t consulted, either. The secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, said she wasn’t consulted. And the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, said he wasn’t consulted.”

The country’s in the very best of hands.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).