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Attorney General Eric Holder keeps on the wall of his office a portrait of Justice Robert Jackson, who was attorney general under FDR. Holder explains that Jackson is one of his heroes. The display is both an homage and a reminder to consider the justice’s reservoirs of wisdom, which ran deep.
Jackson was a giant, in both the political and legal worlds, and those worlds are ever more entangled. In our more litigious era, we continue to grapple with international terrorism. Largely, it is a military challenge, but one on which we struggle to impose some sort of judicial framework. In selecting a role model, then, Attorney General Holder has chosen well.
Jackson wrote after being selected by Truman as prosecutor at the Nuremburg tribunals: "The ultimate principle is that you must put no man on trial under the forms of judicial proceedings if you are not willing to see him freed if not proven guilty. If you are determined to execute a man in any case, there is no occasion for a trial; the world yields no respect to courts that are merely organized to convict."
A very, very good read on where Holder's ideals are in relation to KSM. Lots to summate, but because of copyright, well, you'll just have to read the thing your own self. Really, it's interesting.
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