Tsarevich Ted Olson, protector of civil liberties

[Moochy]

from sf gate's reprint of the Washington post article titled:
GOP chairman walks away as Dems decry Bush policies
Guantanamo Bay criticisms derail Patriot Act hearing

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/11/MNG59D78C81.DTL

Congress created the panel in December after the release of the Sept. 11 commission report finding that the government had no one charged with monitoring civil liberties during the war on terrorism.

Dinkins is a senior partner with the law firm of Vinson and Elkins and was a deputy U.S. attorney general in 1984-85. Her biography on the Vinson and Elkins Web site does not indicate any experience in civil liberties matters. Also picked were former Solicitor General Ted Olson, whose wife, Barbara, died in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001; former Clinton White House aide Lanny Davis; Francis X. Taylor, chief security officer for General Electric Co. and former assistant secretary of state in the current administration; and Alan Charles Raul, a Washington lawyer and former official in the administration of President George H.W. Bush.

Ok, so I don't know much about Tsarina Dinkins, but does anyone else find it 'uniquely American' that a man whose wife died at the hands of the terrorists, should be sitting on a panel to guarantee civil liberties in the war on terror?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Read up on him

He's a real beauty, that one. A real beauty. Check him out.

[ROH]

2. Is it Ted Olson...

who said: "It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information."

[longship]

3. Remember Ted Olson

He argued Bush v. Gore at SCOTUS for the Repugs.

His wife was the mealy-mouth lunatic that appeared before cameras throughout the 2000 election debacle spewing rubbish arguments that in effect said that votes must not be counted. She was on board the plane that slammed into the Pentagon on 9/11.

Olson is CuckooBanana's Solicitor General and is one of the top candidates to fill Rheinquist's shoes at SCOTUS.

We don't want this nut on the court.