The backlash is growing against Liz Cheney after she demonized Department of Justice attorneys as terrorist sympathizers for their past legal work defending Gitmo detainees -- and now it's coming from within deeply conservative legal circles.
On Friday, the conservative blog Power Line put up a post titled, "An Attack That Goes Too Far." Author Paul Mirengoff, called Cheney's effort to brand DoJ officials the "Al Qaeda 7," "vicious" and "unfounded" even if it was right to criticize defense lawyers for voluntarily doing work on behalf of Gitmo detainees.
Reached on the phone, Mirengoff offered an even sharper rebuke, contrasting what Cheney is doing to the anti-communist crusades launched by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and, in some respects, finding it worse.
"It could be worse than some of the assertions made by McCarthy, depending on some of the validity of those assertions," Mirengoff said, explaining that at least McCarthy was correct in pinpointing individuals as communist sympathizers. "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."
Glad to see this happening. I am all for opposing views, just not hacks.
Why does Liz Cheney have a platform? Her points of view are totally relative to her father's crimes, her facts don't exist and her perception is beyond a debatable format. It's pure bullshit.
It's called due process. It's in the Constitution. The lawyers were most likely Bush appointees.
She argues against process as her Dad won't divulge any information on who he met with to formulate public policy on energy, refuses to submit papers to the National Archive and says he is neither part of the Executive or Legislative branch of the federal government.
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