Kenneth Starr: The Cheneys Are "SHAMEFUL"

[kpete]

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. <...>

"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 Adams's defense of British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre to argue that "zealous representation of unpopular clients" is an important American tradition.

The attacks on the lawyers "undermine the Justice system more broadly," they wrote, by "delegitimizing" any system in which accused terrorists have lawyers, whether civilian courts of military tribunals.

more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34050.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Aw Jeez

Don't make me agree with Ken Starr...

[Fridays Child]

4. I know.

It feels so dirty. :puke:
But there it is, another fracture on the extreme right. :party:

[AwakeAtLast]

6. Yeah, that smarts a little

x(

[donheld]

11. Aw come on, it's like agreeing with a broken clock.

Only happens twice a day.

[w4rma]

2. Very good. (nt)

[Cass]

3. Wow, Cheney really hit a nerve with republicans, didn't she?

:wow:

Never thought I'd see the day that a republican would go after one of their own so aggressively.

[opihimoimoi]

10. Republican Political Evolution in play....weaker stories losing to STRONGER ONES....on the Pub Side

of things that is....

Even Loony Tuners can go OVERBOARD swinging RIGHT...so Fringey as to appeal only to a tiny fragment made up mostly of the Easily Fooled Group

[jmondine]

5. Pot to Kettle?

[tavalon]

7. Thanks hubby

I totally concur. Oh, and it's great to have you back at DU.

[donheld]

12. !

[intheflow]

8. Citing Unitarian John Adams' defense of British soldiers!

Wow, what a bunch of godless, liberal, socialist sympathizers! :sarcasm: Good to hear something sensible come out from Republican mouths.

[gratuitous]

9. When Ken Starr calls you shameful

Well, that's like having Nicole Ritchie say you're too thin.

[spanone]

13. is cheney on anybody's side????

[DesertRat]

14. Pot meet kettle!

:kick:

[arthritisR_US]

15. you said it! n/t

[Uncle Joe]

16. I must hold my nose on recommending anything Ken Starr agrees with, but I believe he and the rest

are correct on this issue.

Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.