A group that includes leading conservative lawyers and policy experts, former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and several senior officials of the last Bush administration is denouncing as shameful Republican attacks on lawyers who came to the Obama Justice Department after representing suspected terrorists.
Senate Republicans have demanded details of the lawyers' past work and Liz Cheneys group Keep America Safe has questioned their values." A drumbeat of Republican criticism forced the Justice Department reluctantly to identify seven of them last week. But the harshness of the criticism Keep America Safe labeled a group of them the Al Qaeda Seven has provoked a backlash from across the legal establishment.
We consider these attacks both unjust to the individuals in question and destructive of any attempt to build lasting mechanisms for counterterrorism adjudications, wrote the 19 lawyers whose names were attached to the statement as of early Monday.
The statement cited John Adamss defense of British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre to argue that zealous representation of unpopular clients is an important American tradition.
Republicans scold Liz Cheney - Yahoo! News
Senate Republicans have demanded details of the lawyers' past work and Liz Cheneys group Keep America Safe has questioned their values." A drumbeat of Republican criticism forced the Justice Department reluctantly to identify seven of them last week. But the harshness of the criticism Keep America Safe labeled a group of them the Al Qaeda Seven has provoked a backlash from across the legal establishment.
We consider these attacks both unjust to the individuals in question and destructive of any attempt to build lasting mechanisms for counterterrorism adjudications, wrote the 19 lawyers whose names were attached to the statement as of early Monday.
The statement cited John Adamss defense of British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre to argue that zealous representation of unpopular clients is an important American tradition.
Republicans scold Liz Cheney - Yahoo! News