Now, a lot of people have been hard on Attorney General Eric Holder. Whether it’s his fear of calling a terrorist a terrorist, his glib attack on the Arizona immigration bill (without ever reading it), or letting armed thugs off the hook in a voter intimidation case – there’s a sense that Holder is a dude with scores to settle against a country that’s done nothing but open doors for him.

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But I disagree – the fact is Holder is a brilliant man, who accurately predicted his very own behavior, back in February 2009. Remember, it was he who said, that the American people are ” a nation of cowards” in failing to discuss race. He noted that “certain subjects are off limits and that to explore them risks at best embarrassment and at worst the questioning of one’s character.”

Let’s look at him now. When he had the Department of Justice dismiss the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party activists stemming from that 2008 incident in Philly, many wondered why. (more…)

Among my former associates at the FBI, New York Times bestselling novelist Vince Flynn is a favorite. His protagonist Mitch Rapp, a counter-terrorism specialist for the CIA, is the talk whenever Flynn releases a new political thriller. Possibly the highest compliment any FBI agent ever paid me was when he called me “the old, ugly, domestic version of Mitch Rapp.” I wear the accolade with pride. What makes Flynn’s novels so captivating is the authenticity of his writing. In fact, at least one novel came under scrutiny when it hit a little too close to home detailing our nation’s nuclear security efforts.

His latest novel “Extreme Measures” was released last fall but once again Flynn may end up just a little too real. I won’t give away the plot but Mitch Rapp finds himself in front of a Congressional committee explaining why he needed to employ “extreme measures” to protect this nation. Sound familiar? Attorney General Eric Holder named a federal prosecutor this week to examine the abuse of prisoners during interrogations by the CIA. I wonder if Mitch will be called as a witness.  (more…)

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: The War on Terrorism, President Obama, the Associated Press, Osama Bin Laden, Attorney General Eric Holder, Al Qaeda, FDA, Botox, Nancy Pelosi, Keith Olbermann, Simon Cowell, Ryan Seacrest, and Clay Aiken.