Holder's terror surrender

By Boston Herald editorial staff2 weeks ago

Attorney General Eric Holder has reportedly decided to unilaterally disarm the Justice Department in the war on terror. Yes, in the interest of political correctness Holder will put this nation's law enforcement units in handcuffs.

Holder is reportedly considering expanding the definition of racial profiling in a way that would prohibit federal law enforcement agents of all kinds from considering religion and national origin in investigations - including, it would appear, in counterterrorism efforts and possibly surveillance.

If indeed he follows through on promises made to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and reported in yesterday's New York Times, Holder should quite simply be impeached.

Now no one supports racial profiling in the conduct of ordinary policing. Nor do we support the harassment of our Muslim neighbors and friends. But to ignore the role of radical Islamists as a genuine security threat to this nation is nothing short of insane.

It is the kind of political correctness run amok that has led to grannies and toddlers being strip-searched at airports all the while the increasingly radicalized Tamerlan Tsarnaev was able to travel back and forth to a hotbed of Islamist terrorism like Dagestan unchecked and unmolested.

Linda Sarsour, advocacy director of the National Network for Arab American Communities, was practically giddy at the possibility of expanding the rules on profiling, telling the Times, "Adding religion and national origin is huge. But if they don't close the national security loophole, then it's really irrelevant."

"Loophole!"

Well, tell the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing about closing that "loophole" maybe while they try on their new prosthetic limbs.

And then explain the manifesto left behind in that boat by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when police were closing in on him - the one that read, "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims." Then ponder how Holder's move will make this nation safer.