Shove your ‘McCarthism’ charge up your fat arse, CBS.
Why, yes, I think its fair to point out that the Left is generally sympathetic to jihadists.
I also think its fair to point out that the Left prefers to hold AQ blameless for 911 and to blame the United States. They waited maybe four hours after the 911 attacks to start blaming the US and really have never stopped.
And these lawyers in particular have fought to close Guantanamo, fought to put CIA on trial, fought to put Bush and Cheney on trial, fought to get AQ and Talibs released from prison, fought to get Bin Ladin's bodyguard released, and now want to be trusted to prosecute Americans. And to prosecute Al Qaeda after spending years defending them. No, no conflict of interest there.
These are the kind of monsters we've elected into the White House.
Mabey we should have a “McCarthyism Party” as a third party. That would get their attention.
McCarthyism= calling a Communist a Communist.
If McCarthyism is needed, Liz Cheney will do a better job of it than McCarthy himself.
She’s bright, knows her facts, calm, soft spoken, but wields a verbal gurka dagger when the Democrat interviewing her resorts to the usual name-calling tactic.
Ha. When Liz Cheney uses the Left’s tactics against them, all of a sudden they squeal McCarthyism?
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.
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.
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.”
BS