Holder promotes freedom for terrorists

By Cliff Kincaid - Sunday, July 10, 2011

Attorney General Eric Holder is quietly implementing a policy of freedom for terrorists.

We're not talking about the Islamic terrorists at Gitmo that Holder has been trying to get transferred to the United States for trials in which evidence can be thrown out by clever left-wing lawyers, but the Cuban-backed communist terrorists of the Bill Ayers variety.

Holder, who during the Clinton administration facilitated clemencies or pardons for 18 terrorists from the Weather Underground and Puerto Rican FALN terrorist groups, is doing it again.

Unbeknownst to the public, Carlos Torres, FALN co-founder, and Marilyn Buck, a member of the Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army, were released from federal prison last year.

The release of another FALN terrorist, Oscar Lopez, was blocked when Joseph Connor, whose father was killed in the FALN bombing of historic Fraunces Tavern in New York in 1975, found out about the scheme and organized a campaign to stop it.

There also is evidence that a law enforcement entity known as the Phoenix Task Force is being dismantled before it can solve the cold-case bombing murder of San Francisco police Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell.

The evidence in this 1970 case, according to former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl and the San Francisco Police Officers Association, points to the involvement of Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the former leaders of the Weather Underground.

It is easy to see why Holder would want to see this investigation go away -- his boss was friends with the terror couple in Chicago, where they helped raise money to start Obama's political career.

Holder, says former FBI agent Rick Hahn, who handled the FALN investigation, "should never have occupied the post of attorney general, and should be banished from government forever." He explains that Holder was "instrumental in effecting the release from prison of a number of convicted terrorists" and "did so by negating the findings of other professionals, by violating the standard practices of the Department of Justice, and by pressuring those who worked for him."

Connor says "neither Holder nor anyone from the Department of Justice or White House ever contacted us family members prior to the clemency offer. We were ignored while the terror supporters were given at least nine meetings with White House and DOJ officials, essentially scheming together for the terror jail break."

In spite or because of this record, Obama picked Holder for attorney general, a promotion from the days when he was deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration. The Senate went along, voting 75-21 to confirm him. As a result, we see more terrorists from those anti-American and Cuban-backed groups being released.

Marilyn Buck was involved in the 1981 Brinks robbery that took the lives of two police officers and a security guard. She also helped bomb the U.S. Capitol in 1983. She was quietly released on parole last year after federal officials erroneously claimed that she had abandoned her communist terrorist views.

She died several weeks after her release and was given a memorial service in New York attended by several former members of the Weather Underground and FALN. Ayers and Dohrn sent a tribute that was featured in a glossy booklet published for the occasion.

Buck's lawyer, Harvard Law School's Soffiyah Elijah, introduced a recording at the service in honor of Buck by Joanne Chesimard, an American terrorist and cop killer who escaped to Cuba with the help of Buck.

Elijah also is the attorney for Chesimard and travels to Cuba regularly. Chesimard said she was happy her "sister" had been able to enjoy freedom from prison, at least for a while.

In addition to Chesimard, the Castro regime continues to protect two Puerto Rican terrorists -- William Morales of the FALN and Victor Manuel Gerena of Los Macheteros.

Joseph Connor says, "The FALN and Fraunces Tavern were the al-Qaida and 9/11 of its time and the likes of Oscar Lopez, Carlos Torres and William Morales were the Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ayman al-Zawahiri of their time. Morales, Chesimard and others remain at large." He says it is time to demand that Obama and Holder take the measures necessary to bring these fugitives home to face justice.

The terrorists have other plans, however, They are pressing Obama and Holder for more paroles, pardons and clemencies. This time, for example, they want freedom for Leonard Peltier, the American Indian activist in prison for killing two FBI agents, and David Gilbert, one of Marilyn Buck's former comrades serving time for his involvement in the Brinks robbery and murders.

Congress needs to find out if freedom for these terrorists is now in the works.

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