Re: How did Liz Cheney ever pass law school?

On Mar 11, 1:39 pm, Emperor Wonko the Sane <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mar 10, 5:54 pm, Huck Kennedy <tempeh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





      Being away for a day, I'm surprised noone has mentioned Liz
Cheney's ridiculous attack on the Department of Justice lawyers who
were assigned to defend Guantanamo detainees, calling them the "Al-
Qaeda Seven," and labelling the Department of Justice the "Department
of Jihad."

      How could this stupid woman even have passed law school and the
bar with such a fundamental lack of understanding of the U.S.
adversarial law system?

http://tinyurl.com/ybaq7jp

An excerpt from the above URL:

Since then, the reaction -- from conservatives, liberals, and just
about everyone in between -- has been swift:

• A statement signed by several leading conservative and Republican
legal figures, -- including Ken Starr, David Rivkin, Lee Casey,
Bradford Berenson, Charles Stimson, Philip Zelikow, and John Berringer
-- called the attack "shameful," as well as "both unjust to the
individuals in question and destructive of any attempt to build
lasting mechanisms for counterterrorism adjudications." Rivkin and
Casey have defended the Bush administration's interrogation polices,
including John Yoo's "Torture Memos." Stimson resigned as the Bush
administration's top detainee affairs official after suggesting on a
radio show that companies not hire law firms providing pro bono
services to detainees. Zelikow and Berringer were top advisers to
Condoleezza Rice at the State Department. And Berenson was a lawyer in
the Bush White House, and is a prominent spokesman for conservative
legal causes.

• Starr continued the pushback on MSNBC's Countdown, of all places,
where he told Lawrence O'Donnell that Cheney's attack was "very
unwise, and really an out-of-bounds characterization and challenge to
good, honorable lawyers."

I guess I'm not sure what Cheney's trying to accomplish.  If she's
simply attacking lawyers for defending the indefensible, you're
absolutely right to condemn her.  I think the real target is Holder's
judgment.  If that's the case, there's plenty of better issues on
which to question his judgment.  The only real issue I see here is a
conflict of interest.  None of the people who defended the detainees
should be involved in their prosecution in any way.  You can't
represent one side and turn around and represent the other.  I would
think it would be in Holder's and the DoJ's best interest to name the
people who defended detainees and point out that their jobs have
nothing to do with Guantanamo.

Exactly.

Would you have a lawyer which defended the KKK prosecuting KKK
members?
Would you have a lawyer working for a Phizer prosectuing Phizer?
etc.

-Tom Enright

Doug
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