Ken Starr and other BushCo Lawyers scold Cheney/Kristol over Shameful Ad

[Perky]

Republicans scold Liz Cheney

Agroup that includes leading conservative lawyers and policy experts, former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and several senior officials of the last Bush Administration, is denouncing as “shameful” Republican attacks on lawyers who came to the Obama Justice Department after representing suspected terrorists.

Senate Republicans have demanded details of the lawyers' past work and Liz Cheney’s group “Keep America Safe” has questioned their “values." A drumbeat of Republican criticism forced the Justice Department to reluctantly identify seven of them last week. But the harshness of the criticism – Keep America Safe labeled a group of them the “Al Qaeda Seven” – has provoked a backlash from across the legal establishment.

“We consider these attacks both unjust to the individuals in question and destructive of any attempt to build lasting mechanisms for counterterrorism adjudications,” wrote the 19 lawyers whose names were attached to the statement as of early Monday.

The statement cited John



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[LiberalFighter]

1. They aided and abetted the environment within the Bush/Cheney administration

[rfranklin]

2. Are the Cheneys throwing up a smoke screen to make their escape?

It seems to that they are creating a distraction with this ridiculous attack. What's the objective? I suspect it have something to do with drawing attention away from Dick Cheney's crimes and liability. Of course, we may never know the true motives because we have so few journalists and too many "panel" moderators who are content with twenty minutes of useless badinage.

[Supersedeas]

3. To me, it is a campaign ad...throwing red meat to the Tea Baggers...and they are getting some run in

the compliant press.

[Cha]

4. Good!