http://www.slate.com/id/2246516/
Bill Kristol and the daughter of Big Dick Cheney (and Les Whinin) make a commercial in which the call the current Department of Justice the "Department of Jihad" because it employs nine lawyers who formerly defended Guantanamo Bay inmates. Here are the facts: 1) Bush asked us to trust him that those locked up in Guantanamo were the "worst of the worst," but since then most people who have been held have been released because there was NO evidence that they had committed any crime at all. 2) Are we not accustomed to the idea that all people accused of a crime, regardless of the later outcome of the trial and of the nature of the charges, deserve legal representation (in addition to a civilian trial)? 3) During WWII, some Germans were tried by military tribunals, but at that time we were actually at war. Congress declared war. Everyone knew we were at war, everyone felt it, everyone participated. None of that is true now. We are not at war because we do not want to pay the price of being at war. We want someone to think of the children.
http://www.salon.com/news/liz_cheney/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/radio/2010/03/03/hafetz
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