{"id":54695,"date":"2014-08-22T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54695"},"modified":"2014-08-22T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T13:31:22","slug":"holder-to-investigate-foley-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54695","title":{"rendered":"Holder to investigate Foley murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/James-Foley-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"James Foley\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/James-Foley-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/James-Foley-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/James-Foley.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/08\/21\/holder-says-criminal-investigation-launched-into-american-journalists-execution\/\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Eric Holder, the Attorney General, has announced that he&#8217;s going to lunch an investigation into the beheading of journalist James Foley.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is more nonsense,&#8221; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., an Iraq war veteran, said in a statement to FoxNews.com. &#8220;What&#8217;s most aggravating is that either in Foley&#8217;s situation, or the other Americans in captivity, the Defense Department is being forced to take a backseat to the FBI and DOJ.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=3742325835001&#038;w=500&#038;h=300\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Charles Krauthammer compared this to FDR announcing that he&#8217;s going to launch an investigation to bring the Japanese pilots at Pearl Harbor to justice. I guess when you&#8217;re a lawyer, everything looks like a nail (mixed metaphor acknowledged), but this is an act of war, not a legal issue.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Defense Chuck Obvious is not up to the task of waging war, which makes him a perfect fit for this administration, but neither is Eric Holder able to wage war. <\/p>\n<p>What no one is acknowledging is that Foley was executed because the Obama Administration wouldn&#8217;t facilitate the ransom exchange, which is proper, we don&#8217;t negotiate with terrorists, but they did meet the demands of the Haqqani Network for the release of Bowe Bergdahl &#8211; paid a high price for the exchange, so they sent a mixed message to our enemies. The murder of Foley was to get their attention again.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s cute that Secretary Obvious thinks that we can destroy the  ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State by attacking them in Syria &#8211; that group is fighting against the Syrian government and towards our own goal of removing Assad from his presidency. It&#8217;s all pretty confusing &#8211; we&#8217;re arming the Syrian rebels who are intermixed with the ISIS folks. A year ago we were ready to launch air attacks in support of ISIS in retaliation for chemical attacks that we perceived to have been committed by the Syrian government.<\/p>\n<p>But all of that will be clear, because the Justice Department will now be driving our strategy in the region. The only thing that could screw it all up is if they put Bite Me in charge of getting answers &#8211; remember Biden was the fellow responsible for the collapse of talks with the Iraq government for keeping US troops in Iraq which caused this whole mess in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Eric Holder, the Attorney General, has announced that he&#8217;s going to lunch &hellip; <a title=\"Holder to investigate Foley murder\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54695\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holder to investigate Foley murder<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}