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The Spectacle Blog
In a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley, Attorney General Eric Holder discloses that nine lawyers who were appointed to handle detainee issues for the Obama Justice Department had previously worked on behalf of Guantanamo detainees.
As Byron York notes:
Private lawyers can choose to take or not take cases. Sometimes they make their decisions based on money, sometimes on principle, sometimes because they are sympathetic to the accused. The lawyers who worked with the terrorist detainees chose to represent people who are making war on the United States. That’s certainly their right, but it’s entirely reasonable to ask whether they should now be working on detainee issues at the Justice Department.
The department’s defenders might say the situation is no different from a lawyer who worked for a corporation joining the department to work on matters affecting big business. But critics say the terrorist detainees are in a special category of client because they are potential threats to the nation’s security.
The second issue is whether lawmakers are entitled to know who is handling detainee issues in the Justice Department. If there are serious questions about the independence of those who make policy, Republicans on the Senate committee, which has oversight responsibility for the Justice Department, feel strongly that they should know about it. (Majority Democrats, who control the committee, have not been as curious.)
S.L. Toddard| 2.23.10 @ 7:23PM
"The lawyers who worked with the terrorist detainees chose to represent people who are making war on the United States"
Which of the detainees they represented were convicted of terrorism? Were none exonerated and set free?
Honestly, it is AMAZING to me that a fairly respectable publication like the Spectator would employ a writer who, despite allegedly being an American, does not understand that gov't accusations are not *proof*. Honestly, did the author of this post never take a civics class in junior high?
Oldefarte| 2.24.10 @ 11:27AM
Perhaps S.L. Turd, you should learn how to """READ""". Byron York [who words you quote] is NOT a writer for TAS [but for the Washington Examiner instead]. Additionally, York's point is a CONFLICT OF INTEREST, whereby lawyers PRIVATELY representing terrorists clients should not be Justice Dept employees formulating US legal policy [in my humble opinion, these terrorists should NOT hve lawyers, either private or otherwise, and any lawyer so representing them should be disbarred and prosecuted]. Geez, WHAT A DUMMIE!!!!
Missy| 2.24.10 @ 1:23PM
Byron York used to write for TAS--but that was quite a while ago.
Get your facts straight, Turddard.
Albert A. Turner| 2.23.10 @ 7:53PM
Maybe Mr. Klein was referring to this type of attorney now at the DOJ as reported by Gateway Pundit: Jennifer Daskal, former counsel at Human Rights Watch, who called for charges against KSM to be dropped because he was "tortured".
You are a commie stooge, Toddard.
Missy| 2.23.10 @ 8:36PM
Commie Toddard has never heard of 'Gateway Pundit'--HuffPo, DU and the Daily Worker, yes, but not GP.
Interested Conservative| 2.23.10 @ 8:16PM
Albert - how dare you call SLT a "commie". What proof is there of that?
Albert A. Turner| 2.23.10 @ 9:35PM
Obama, Alinsky, Ayers, Holder, Wright....the list is endless. These people are communists. Anything else, IC?
Janice| 2.23.10 @ 9:43PM
IC was calling SLToddard a stooge, Albert.
Missy| 2.23.10 @ 8:30PM
Which one of the Stooges best personifies Toddard?
He's mean like Moe, but he's a doofus like Curly.
Margie| 2.23.10 @ 9:17PM
The Three Stooges were innocent buffoons. Toddard is a living, breathing snake. He is a defender of terrorists and and that makes him an enemy of America.
Missy| 2.23.10 @ 9:40PM
Ridicule is a potent weapon, Margie; especially when used against our 'enemies'.
Though, to be fair, I do think Toddard is a buffoon, too.
ds80| 2.24.10 @ 9:37AM
Is "doofus" different enough from "buffoon"? I've always thought of Toddard as the former, but I might reconsider.
Missy| 2.24.10 @ 1:27PM
Both words apply--take your pick.
Ellis Wyatt| 2.23.10 @ 10:19PM
Is this for real? These nine lawyers need to be dismissed immediatley and Holder should be forced to resign.
By the way, great editorial by John Yoo on WSJ opinion page Wednesday. Yoo pretty much makes Obama and Holder look like the thug politician and second rate attorneys that they are.
Missy| 2.24.10 @ 3:46AM
John Yoo is an American hero.
JohnD| 2.24.10 @ 10:12AM
If I am not mistaken, representing one client against a former client is a conflict of interest and grounds for disbarment.
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