Posted on 03/05/2010 5:11:39 PM PST by tobyhill
In recent days the Justice Department has been getting angry phone calls about the "Qaeda" lawyers supposedly hired by Attorney General Eric Holder. The reason? An unusually ferocious Web ad by Liz Cheney's advocacy group, Keep America Safe, targeting Justice lawyers who previously did pro bono work for Guantánamo detainees. The adin one frame, a headline refers to the DOJ as the "Department of Jihad"has been denounced as McCarthyism by liberal critics. It's also being condemned by a growing number of former George W. Bush administration lawyers. Ted Olson, who served as Bush's solicitor general, says he has the "greatest respect" for lawyers who represented Gitmo clients; they were acting "consistent with the finest traditions of the legal profession," he says. He calls the attacks on one of the targets, Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, "outrageous." Four years ago, Katyal represented Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver, in a landmark Supreme Court case that overturned the military tribunals that Bush created. (Katyal did a "marvelous job" on the case, says Olson.)
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Of course these Al-Qaeada are entitled to lawyers. But are they entitled to very good lawyers? How come these high powered DC/NYC corporate liberal lawyers are tripping over each other trying to represent these lowlifes? How come they never bombarded me with offers to represent me pro-bono when I had legal problems?
These terrorists should only be allowed to get incompetent legal-aid lawyers and the equivalent
No, they aren't. Are we at war, or not?
If not, why are there troops deployed, shooting and dying?
If so, then lawyers and the courts have absolutely no place in the matter.
War is not crime. The fraudulent characterization of it as such is a perfect recipe for disaster. If we try to fight a war using lawyers and courtrooms, we will be the laughingstock of the world, and we will lose to any enemy bigger than a street gang.
They get lawyers in a military tribunal too
Ted Olson is a progressive working for the Liberal hoard. He is NOT a conservative.
The Bush Justice Department
Many conservatives burrowed within the Department of Justice have long complained that Gonzales (and therefore, Bush) has permitted career government employees and hold-overs from Democratic Administrations to remain in perches of power and thereby water down conservative directives from the top. As one conservative and Federalist Society member in the Justice Department told me: This is definitely not Ronald Reagans Justice Department, I assure you. You have holdovers from Clinton calling the shots in a lot of places here.
- - John Gizzi from: Should Gonzales Go?
Human Events | March 20, 2007 |
True, but it isn't a criminal court, and all that goes with that.
They probably thought, "Hey, when the other side takes the White House, we'll be heroes, maybe even get jobs!" Looks like they were right.
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