“I’d rather trade places with Jose Padilla.â€
– Viet Dinh, a former senior Justice official under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, on whether he would replace Paul McNulty as deputy to Alberto Gonzales. Padilla is currently charged with aiding Islamic extremists and is facing life in prison.
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That’s a pretty gutsy comeback, but Ahn Viet, watch your back…
May 19th, 2007 at 12:14 pmWell, Bush, it’s time to go to the Regent University well again. They just graduated a new crop of religious wingnuts. You can easily offer one of them the job. It doesn’t matter that they have no experience and are driven by religious ideology, the are warm bodies who would be happy to have the job.
May 19th, 2007 at 12:16 pmPadilla fingerprint match questioned
SET UP
MIAMI - Seven fingerprints on a purported al-Qaeda training-camp application came back as matches to alleged terrorist operative Jose Padilla, a government expert testified yesterday.
But Secret Service fingerprint specialist John Morgan also acknowledged under defense questioning that there was no way to be certain when the fingerprints were placed on the “mujahedeen data form” recovered by the CIA in Afghanistan.
Defense lawyers theorize that Padilla, 36, a U.S. citizen and former Chicago gang member, may have touched the form during his confinement at a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. He was held for 31/2 years as an enemy combatant before his indictment in late 2005 in the Miami terrorism-support case.
Although the form was one of dozens found in a binder in late 2001, it was not analyzed for Padilla’s fingerprints until August 2006, Morgan said. The fingerprints appear only on the front of the first page and back of the last page, possibly indicating that the form had been simply handed to Padilla at some point, defense lawyers say.
http://www.philly.com/ philly/ news/ nation_world/ 7569192.html
May 19th, 2007 at 12:32 pmDefense Cites Ambiguities in Evidence Against Padilla
MIAMI, May 18 — Somewhere in Kandahar, Afghanistan, shortly after the U.S. invasion in the fall of 2001, a man driving a Toyota twin-cab pickup pulled up at a CIA post to deliver thousands of pages of documents.
Amid the notebooks and papers, authorities found a document that would become what may be the single most important piece of physical evidence against terrorism suspect Jose Padilla.
WHAT A LOAD OF BULL - - - bet you hes inncoent
May 19th, 2007 at 12:33 pmMIAMI - Seven fingerprints on a purported al-Qaeda training-camp application came back as matches to alleged terrorist operative Jose Padilla, a government expert testified yesterday.
But Secret Service fingerprint specialist John Morgan also acknowledged under defense questioning that there was no way to be certain when the fingerprints were placed on the “mujahedeen data form” recovered by the CIA in Afghanistan.
Defense lawyers theorize that Padilla, 36, a U.S. citizen and former Chicago gang member, may have touched the form during his confinement at a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. He was held for 31/2 years as an enemy combatant before his indictment in late 2005 in the Miami terrorism-support case.
Although the form was one of dozens found in a binder in late 2001, it was not analyzed for Padilla’s fingerprints until August 2006, Morgan said. The fingerprints appear only on the front of the first page and back of the last page, possibly indicating that the form had been simply handed to Padilla at some point, defense lawyers say.
May 19th, 2007 at 12:37 pmOhhh, ouch!
May 19th, 2007 at 12:46 pmIt just keeps getting better and better. Paybacks a b!tch!
May 19th, 2007 at 12:51 pmSad indeed….Blessings
May 19th, 2007 at 1:02 pmlol what a sad state of affairs
May 19th, 2007 at 1:03 pmyou gotta love that sense of humor though.
May 19th, 2007 at 1:08 pmThat’s a scathing indictment!
http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org
May 19th, 2007 at 1:09 pmSounds like a smart dude, give him Gonzo’s job.
May 19th, 2007 at 1:09 pmI’d rather you trade places with Jose Padilla too, pal…
May 19th, 2007 at 1:30 pmBrilliant!
May 19th, 2007 at 1:37 pmNow, if we could just get Alberto Gonzalez to trade places w/ Jose Padilla, we’d be getting somewhere, finally.
Unfortunately, all we’re probably going to end up w/ is Alberto Gonzalez trading places w/ Paul Wolfowitz. On the other hand, if Bush appoints Blair to the World Bank, does that mean he’ll make Wolfie the new AG, and Gonzo the new PM? That’d teach the Brits a good lesson, wouldn’t it?
May 19th, 2007 at 1:56 pmNews Corporation Corporate Directors: Rupert Murdoch · Peter Barnes · Chase Carey · Peter Chernin · Kenneth Cowley · David DeVoe · Viet Dinh · Rod Eddington · Andrew Knight · Lachlan Murdoch · Thomas Perkins · Stanley Shuman · Arthur Siskind · John L. Thornton
After graduating from law school, Dinh served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Dinh has served as Associate Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee, as Special Counsel to Senator Pete V. Domenici for the Impeachment Trial of President Clinton, and as counsel to the Special Master in In re Austrian and German Bank Holocaust Litigation.
[…]
In late 2003, he was one of a group of prominent US security officials hired by ChoicePoint to advise the company on developing its US Government homeland security contracts.
Dinh currently serves on the boards of the News Corporation, Liberty’s Promise, the American Judicature Society, the Transition Committee for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools, and the ABA Section on Administrative Law.
Dinh was also involved in the selection and confirmation of 100 district and 23 appellate judges in his role representing the DOJ. After 9/11, Dinh conducted a comprehensive review of DOJ priorities, policies and practices, and played a key role in developing the USA PATRIOT Act and revising the Attorney General’s Guidelines, which govern federal law enforcement activities and national security investigations.
I can see why he wouldn’t want the job. He’d be grilled like no AG had ever been questioned before. His fingerprints are on some very dodgy documents, and prosecutions.
May 19th, 2007 at 1:56 pmThat belongs on the list of:
May 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm“GOP Quotes of the Week.”
Gonzo kept saying that he didn’t know who slipped the change into the Patriot act authorizing the end run around congress’ constitutionally defined role of giving advise and consent to the choice of USA’s; perhaps Dinh might know something. Let’s subpoena him, and see what he knows.
May 19th, 2007 at 2:14 pmWhat barfly said. This Dinh dude is another self-satisfied criminal enabler like that frikkin Yoo. A bloodless little prick. Where do they dig up these “people,” goddamn them?
He’s sickening, repulsive, to even mention Jose Padilla’s name, much less bandy it about as some kind of joke, when Dinh, the little puke, is one of the ones who let them put Padilla there forever in the first place.
May 19th, 2007 at 2:59 pmComment by OleHippieChick
I agree, OHC. I wonder why TP didn’t provide readers the background skinny on Dinh. Must have been a rush job, by an intern who didn’t know the story about Dinh.
May 19th, 2007 at 3:09 pmbarfly, thanks for taking the time to research this guy. I was assuming that if he was smart enough to provide such a quip he must be alright. ASS U ME, yup.
May 19th, 2007 at 3:43 pmI guess we have a new context for that slam. *sigh*
May 19th, 2007 at 4:03 pmVery poor taste by Dinh. Thanks for the in-depth information.
It is depressing that there are so many scummy Americans.
Comey’s and Carol Lam’s courage stand out, also Greg Palast and Daniel Inglesias.
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Re: Army deliberatly shortchanging troops on disability retirement.
I was reading from kelly Kennedy about the army holding down dissability rating it’s true I am a living person of that circunstance. I was discharge from the army last february 2006 with 20% dissability rating when the Veteran administration rated same conditions at 70% that the Army Evaluation board said that only correspond to 20%. I appealed the rated to the ABCMR (Army Board of Correction of Medical Record) to only receive a letter that they denied my application to correct the unfair porcentage but they mentioned that if my condition change I could reapply next year. this type aggravation it’s uncceptable and deplorable.
My situation has change since the Army has release me from duty now I’am about to loose every thing I work for including my house because there is no more money to pay my mortgage. If this is the way that our administration paid to all the soldiers and veterans after we come back from the war zone it’is unacceptable.
I don’t know how many times i went to the VA counselor to explain my situation in order the VA start to pay me my compensation and the only thing I have received is letters of apologies for the delay this claim have been approved for paid since March 1st 2006. I think all soldiers and veteran should write to our congressman and let them know that our system is broken and do not justify what the Army is deliveraly doing to chortchanging soldiers on their dissability retirement.
My self I already wrote to Senator Warner and still waiting an answer of my situation I don’t know where to turn anymore I need HELP with this situation matter fact I just received a call from my mortgage people and telling me that they are going to foreclossure my house if I don’t pay by the end of the month. I don’t think so that we have to go thru all this nonsense after we gave our life for our country. The only think I know now is that “FREEDOM IS NOT FREE” it’s costing soldiers and veterans their benefits.
Your support with this situation will benefit everyone write to the congress and let them know that we are not third or twenty class soldiers.
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May 19th, 2007 at 4:56 pmViet Dinh is a Bushballicker First Class…
…so coming from HIM…
…sh*t must be pretty bad at the House de Ceerack…
May 19th, 2007 at 6:52 pmEven without knowing his “resume,” I knew he was an extremist based on his association with such as Bush, et al. A thug. I assume that’s his payback for US involvement in Viet Nam. Or for its ultimately abandoning the corrupt S. Viet Nam gov’t.
He is in the same category as Yoo, Clarence Thomas, Scalia, Ted Olson, and that crew of anti-American thugs. His arrogant nastiness doesn’t at all surprise. Apparently there’s a “vindictive little prick” test one must pass in order to be part of the Bush*t crowd.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pmThis is an administration of thugs…worse than the mafia because we pay their way…it is time to rise up and kick their sorry low life asses out of OUR White House. This country belongs to the people, not the fascist GOP.
May 19th, 2007 at 8:45 pmI knew I recognized his name. Yeah, he is a scumbag. It is, however a huge indictment of what the Justice Department has become if a goose-stepper like this will turn down a plum job like Deputy AG.
May 20th, 2007 at 12:15 amThis is the bastard that wrote the Patriot Act.
May 20th, 2007 at 2:30 amDon’t worry people, Hillary will save you all…
May 21st, 2007 at 1:57 amJNagarya— please leave south vietnam alone. we have suffered enuf.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:12 am