Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has turned in his walking papers. His excuse ? He wants to spend time with his family, usually codetalk for the shit is about to hit the fan.
I can find no discussion about why he could really be leaving but lets make a few educated guesses. He has been the Head of the Civil Rights Division which should mean he had much to do with decisions about the National Security Letters that were declared Unconstitutional, once again, yesterday. Could that have forced his had ? Who knows ?
Keisler has also had much to do with denying the Civil Rights of the prisoners in Gitmo, but again details a few so we can only wonder.
In April 2005, Keisler defended the administration's policy of military tribunals in a case that was overturned yesterday by the Supreme Court.
In his argument before the D.C. Circuit, Keisler said that the president should be allowed to exercise his power to prosecute and punish al-Qaeda terrorism suspects for war crimes without intervention from U.S. courts. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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