Posted on 03/03/2010 12:50:28 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A day after a conservative group released a video condemning the Justice Department for refusing to identify seven lawyers who previously represented or advocated for terror suspects, Fox News has uncovered the identities of the seven lawyers.
The names were confirmed by a Justice Department spokesman, who said "politics has overtaken facts and reality" in a tug-of-war over the lawyers' identities.
"Department of Justice attorneys work around the clock to keep this country safe, and it is offensive that their patriotism is being questioned," said Justice Department Spokesman Matt Miller.
The video by the group Keep America Safe, which dubbed the seven lawyers "The Al Qaeda 7," is the latest salvo in a lengthty political battle.
For several months, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has led an effort to uncover politically-appointed lawyers within the Justice Department who have advocated for Guantanamo Bay detainees or other terror suspects.
"The administration has made many highly questionable decisions when it comes to national security, " Grassley said in a recent statement. "[Americans] have a right to know who advises the Attorney General and the President on these critical matters."
An extensive review of court documents and media reports by Fox News suggests many of the seven lawyers in question played only minor or short-lived roles in advocating for detainees. However, it's unclear what roles, if any, they have played in detainee-related matters since joining the Justice Department.
Before joining the Justice Department, Jonathan Cedarbaum, now an official with the Office of Legal Counsel, was part of a "firm-wide effort" to represent six Bosnian-Algerian detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, according to the web site of the firm WilmerHale.
That effort brought the case Boumediene v. Bush to the Supreme Court, which reaffirmed the right of detainees to challenge their detention.
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Needed:
A big sweep.
“Department of Justice attorneys work around the clock to keep this country safe”
lolololol.
I would contend that Obama himself “advocates for terror suspects” when he bows and scraps before Muslim leaders and tells them how great they are and how terrible America while he’s giving the finger to our loyal allies. IMPEACHMENT is the answer to this pretender.
LOL is for sure...what lawyer ever helped his country stay safe...hell they are running the war.......idiots.
If it’s proved that you are a member of a Terrorist Organization and not as an FBI/CIA plant, you don’t deserve an Attorney to defend you. You’re guilty. You should be hung, drawn and quartered, then your remains hung from the Brooklyn Bridge.
I’ll go one step further... AG Holder is also a despicable pro-enemy traitor.
Working around the clock, except on the Christmas holidays, eh?
I question their patriotism. And their judgment. And their partisanship. And their honesty. And their ability to prosecute any phase of the war on the side of the people of the United States.
Nobody from Covington & Burling? I don’t buy it.
So they’ve bargained they’re relations with their fellow Americans...for what?
Wow, they promised and everything! That sure puts things in a whole new light.
"Promise you'll be ethical?"
"Yep."
"Okay."
Some lawyers are just too ignant for their own good.
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