There is an tendency — exponentially more prevalent among the followers of Saul Alinsky than those who consider him to be a Satan-worshipper — to make definitive claims about political opponents without much concern about whether they are true.
This is not the same as sincerely believing a dubious claim and spouting it. This is being indifferent to the veracity of a claim — or even doubting it — while calling it definitive truth.
In June 2008, Eric Holder, who was then the senior legal advisor of Barack Obama’s campaign team, told the leftist, oxymoronically named American Constitution Society:
Our government authorized the use of torture, approved of secret electronic surveillance against American citizens, secretly detained American citizens without due process of law, denied the writ of habeas corpus to hundreds of accused enemy combatants and authorized the use of procedures that violate both international law and the United States Constitution.
Note the lack of qualifying words such as “possibly” or “may have”. He definitively said, to advance a political cause, that our government and the Bush administration were violating the law and Constitution.
So, Obama won and Holder became attorney general. What did he do about it?
Andrew McCarthy, the federal prosecutor who successfully put behind bars the perpetrators of the first World Trade Center bombing, reported Aug. 31 on PJMedia that Holder has terminated his investigation of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation without charges.
Nothing there it seems.
People who will say anything to get power, shouldn’t get power.