There is hypocrisy and then there is THIS

From Courting Disaster

A Justice Dept Official sometime between 2002 and 2006:

In explaining why there was no question that KSM, Bin Alshib et al did not deserve the protection of the Geneva convention ....

"One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future plans might be, where other cells are located." he explained on CNN

"under the Geneva convention .. you are really limited in the amount of information that you can elicit from people. I seems to me given the way in which they have conducted themselves, however, that they are not in fact, people entitles to the protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not prisoners of war. If, for instance, Mohammed Atta had survived the attack on the World Trade Center, would we now be calling him a prisoner of war? I think not. Should Zacarias Moussaoui be called a POW. Again I think not."

No, according to this same person today, he would not be denied being even a POW, he would have the fully accorded right of Americans.

The official:

ERIC HOLDER

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