US 'witch hunt' backfires

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

US 'witch hunt' backfires
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:58

A witchhunt orchestrated by George W. Bush supporters against government lawyers representing Guantanamo inmates has backfired, as conservatives joined the outcry against the McCarthy-like attacks.

"Who are these government officials? Eric Holder would only name two. What's the secrecy behind the other seven? Whose values do they share?" asks the video ad posted online by the conservative group Keep America Safe.

"Tell Eric Holder the Americans have the right to know their identities, the Al-Qaeda Seven."

Liz Cheney, daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, has come under fire from left and right for orchestrating the campaign questioning the patriotism and loyalty of Justice Department lawyers who represented terror suspects in private practice before they joined the agency.

The debate gained further steam in successive diatribes exchanged in rival editorials and commentaries, and in the press that warned of a witchhunt on the scale of senator Joe McCarthy's hounding of Communists at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s.


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[the other one]

1. K n R

[47of74]

2. Liz Cheney is evil

[northofdenali]

5. Nah, not evil. Just following on daddy's used condoms.

If he has any beside the one he obviously didn't use with the woman who birthed this bitch.

I'm allowed to say that. I'm female. She's worse, not female, not human, not....

She and daddy are sociopathic. Easily defined, not easily defeated.

Gimme Roarke and Eve any day.

[eShirl]

3. here's hoping they never live it down

[WCGreen]

4. It's time to replace McCarthyism with Cheneyism...

Or at least McCarthyism 2.0

[Hekate]

6. kick--already recc'd when this was first posted

That young woman is true to her parental DNA: an utter bitch.

Hekate