Liz Cheney Accused of McCarthyism

cbsnews.com ^ | March 5, 2010 | Brian Montopoli

[Free ThinkerNY]

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and co-founder of the advocacy group Keep America Safe, is being criticized on the right for going too far in an ad deeming Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo Bay detainees the "al-Qeada seven" and calling for their identities to be revealed.

After Paul Mirengoff posted on the conservative Power Line blog that "it is entirely inappropriate to suggest that these lawyers share the values of terrorists or to dub the seven DOJ lawyers 'The al Qaeda Seven,'" the Huffington Post reached out to him for further comment.

"It could be worse than some of the assertions made by McCarthy, depending on some of the validity of those assertions," Mirengoff said. "It is just baseless to suggest that [these DoJ officials] share al Qaeda values... they didn't actually say it but I think it was a fair implication of what they were saying."

(Mirengoff wrote after his comments were posted that "the quotes themselves are accurate, but I think the characterization of what I said is somewhat misleading," writing "I don't think I said or implied that the video is comparable to or worse than the totality of what goes by the name of McCarthyism or to the 'crusades' launched by Sen. McCarthy.")

It was not the first time McCarthy had been raised in reference to the video. Ken Gude of the liberal Center for American Progress said the following, according to the Washington Monthly: "This is exactly what Joe McCarthy did. Not kind of like McCarthyism; this is exactly McCarthyism."

[avital2]

i also think it’s fair to point out that these lawyers have a conflict of interest, at the very least, in DOJ - being on the side of prosecuting Al Qaeda, not defending it. that is the point.

[SmokingJoe]

McCarthyism is one of the highest forms of patriotism.

Pretty much:

"After printing rabidly venomous accounts of McCarthy for half a century based on zero research, liberals would only accept research presenting an alternative view of McCarthy that included, as the Los Angeles Times put it, at least the “pretense of scholarly throat-clearing and objectivity.”

“This week, they got it. The great M. Stanton Evans has finally released Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies . Based on a lifetime's work, including nearly a decade of thoroughgoing research, stores of original documents and never-before-seen government files, this 672-page book ends the argument on Joe McCarthy. Look for it hidden behind stacks of Bill Clinton's latest self-serving book at a bookstore near you.

Evans’ book is such a tour de force that liberals are already preparing a “yesterday's news” defense — as if they had long ago admitted the truth about McCarthy.
-snip-
The true story of Joe McCarthy, told in meticulous, irrefutable detail in “Blacklisted by History,” is that from 1938 to 1946, the Democratic Party acquiesced in a monstrous conspiracy being run through the State Department, the military establishment, and even the White House to advance the Soviet cause within the U.S. government.

-snip-
Blacklisted by History proves that every conventional belief about McCarthy is wrong, including:

— That he lied about his war service: He was a tailgunner in World War II;
— That he was a drunk: He would generally nurse a single drink all night;
— That he made the whole thing up: He produced loads of Soviet spies in government jobs;
— That he just did it for political gain: He understood perfectly the godless evil of communism"
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=219

[SmokingJoe]

I think they now realize that Palin is a joke

Groan!
Trust the anti-Palin nuts to fight mightily to turn every single thread (even the ones that have absolutely NOTHING whatsoever to do with Sarah Paain), into a nasty anti-Palin thread.
Hey, why don't you go get a life?

[Waco]

Much of what he said was covered in congressional hearings after WW2. It was there for anyone who was interested. ‘’Jouralists’’ ignored it.

[pray4liberty]

Ha. When Liz Cheney uses the Left’s tactics against them, all of a sudden they squeal McCarthyism?

[SmokingJoe]

“it is entirely inappropriate to suggest that these lawyers share the values of terrorists or to dub the seven DOJ lawyers ‘The al Qaeda Seven,’”

No it is not.
Some of these Al Quaeda DOJ lawyers referred to the military tribunals as “kangaroo courts”.
Reality: Those military tribunals were passed into law by a bill in the congress in 2006.

Military Commissions Act of 2006
President George W. Bush signs into law S. 3930, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, during a ceremony on October 17, 2006 in the East Room of the White House.The United States Military Commissions Act of 2006[1], also known as HR-6166, was an Act of Congress[2] signed by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006. Drafted in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,[3] the Act's stated purpose was “To authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes.”[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006

After suffering legal challenges from the loony left in court, the military tribunals were re-confirmed as valid and legal by the United States Supreme Court.

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/06-1195.pdf

Paul Mirengoff needs to get off the liberal Kool Aid.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and co-founder of the advocacy group Keep America Safe, is being criticized on the right for going too far...

Ann Coulter, in one of her books, chronicles all the various libs who say "this time she's gone too far" in response to various columns or comments. Her defense of McCarthy was one of them.

The proof that Liz struck a "truth nerve" is being accused of going too far.

[pennboricua]

Monday, Oct. 16, 2006 11:18 a.m. EDT
Blind Sheik’s Lawyer: ‘I’m Not a Traitor.”
In a letter to the judge, civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart proclaimed “I am not a traitor.”

She acknowledged that she zealously tried to save a blind Egyptian sheik from life in prison for plotting to blow up New York City landmarks. But she argued that the government’s characterization of her was wrong and took unfair advantage of the “hysteria that followed 9/11 and that was re-lived during the trial.”

On Monday, that judge was to decide whether Stewart, 67, should join her former client behind bars for enabling him to communicate with his followers. Prosecutors asked for the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

Stewart was convicted in February 2005 of providing material support to terrorists. She had released a statement by Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who she represented at his 1995 trial and who was sentenced to life in prison for plots to blow up five New York landmarks and assassinate Egypt’s president.

In court papers, prosecutors told U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl that Stewart’s “egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession, abuse that amounted to material support to a terrorist group, deserves to be severely punished.”

[muawiyah]

Fur shur an awful lot of the Palin haters look to be the sort who'd burn down her former church.

You'd think they'd be smart enough to not call attention to themselves.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

So you think Palin is a joke?Very telling.

[Crim]

Palin is no joke...curious statement..

[freekitty]

BS

[LuKing]

Sarah Palin woke up the country. Something very few people were able to do. My only problem with Palin is her endorsement of McCain...the RINO.

Dick Cheney is a patriot, and so is his daughter Liz. We need more people like them. Less like McCain “Let’s just have fun.”