Republicans scold Liz Cheney (Politico)

[jefferson_dem]

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Republicans scold Liz Cheney

A group 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 Adams’s defense of British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre to argue that “zealous representation of unpopular clients” is an important American tradition.

The attacks on the lawyers “undermine the Justice system more broadly,” they wrote, by “delegitimizing” any system in which accused terrorists have lawyers, whether civilian courts of military tribunals.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34050.html#ixzz0haqRDlR7

[Clio the Leo]

1. I'm telling you all that woman is going to run for President....

... she's like that Palin woman, but smarter.

[niceypoo]

7. Not sure about the 'smarter' part

Higher IQ, perhaps. If she runs it will be on a 'torture now, torture tomorrow, torture forever,' platform. Good luck with that Cheney you sneering bitch!

[dkf]

2. The msm needs to kick her unamerican butt off tv.

She obviously doesn't believe in our laws. I don't understand why the press gives her the time of day.

[Uben]

3. Why are the Cheneys not in prison?

The whole damned family is nothing but a bunch of traitors. This scum needs to be removed from society.

[Jennicut]

4. Well, why should any accused have any representation. That is so un-american! Oh wait,

it IS an American tradition? It is in our laws? Oh yeah, forgot.

Liz Cheney is reprehensible. I swear, she and other conservatives just want to totally dismantle our set of laws. Then, people can be accused of things against their govt. and can simply be done away with, like a dictatorship. These people claim to love the Constitution but then spit all over it.

[vixengrl]

5. I think the Cheney strategy is management of the Overton window--

If they are outspoken on the fringe where waterboarding and no defense for detainees, indefinite detention, throw away the key, GITMO FOREVER, represent the far right said, then people who are for military commissions, *some" forms of enhanced interrogation like stress positions, starts to seem quite broad-minded and centrist, instead of being seen as on dubious grounds.

Or, or, or, they actually do believe the Constitution is "just a goddamned piece of paper" and any old ends justify any old means. That, too, is possible.

[Cha]

6. KR

[Mz Pip]

8. The whole point of defense attorneys

is to keep the State honest. Liz is pretty much saying the State can do whatever it wants, carte blanche, no questions asked.

For conservatives who seem to have a visceral mistrust of government, I find this attitude perplexing.

[Hekate]

9. She crossed a line. What amazes me is that who knew there was a line in Pubs' minds to be crossed?!

After these past few decades, I thought there was no depth to which they would not go, no line they would not cross, in pursuit of their aims.

Liz Cheney seems to have actually found that line. Who knew?

Hekate