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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Dick and Liz Cheney in Dr. Strangelove Two

A conservative advocacy organization in Washington, Keep America Safe, kicked up a storm last week when it released a video that questioned the loyalty of Justice Department lawyers who worked in the past on behalf of detained terrorism suspects.

There’s something truly bizarre about this,” said Richard A. Epstein, aUniversity of Chicago law professor and a revered figure among many members of the society. “Liz Cheney is a former student of mine — I don’t know what moves her on this thing,” he said.

Ms. Cheney’s video referred to the lawyers as the “Al Qaeda Seven,” and accused the Justice Department of concealing their names, which were later revealed by Fox News. -- On Sunday, Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, issued a joint letter criticizing the “shameful series of attacks” on government lawyers, which it said were “unjust to the individuals in question and destructive of any attempt to build lasting mechanisms for counterterrorism adjudications.”The letter was signed by a Who’s Who of former Republican administration officials and conservative legal figures, including Kenneth W. Starr, the former special prosecutor, and Charles D. Stimson, who resigned from the second Bush administration after suggesting that businesses might think twice before hiring law firms that had represented detainees.

While it is heartening to find out that some of the most conservative and prestigious legal think tanks and rabid anti liberal icons have made statements confirming that Liz Cheney has now entered the right wing-nut swampland usually inhabited by Rush "Oxycotin" Limbaugh and his cronies at Fox News:

It is sad to see that a childhood infected by a father who has watched "Dr. Srangelove" too many times and is living the role portrayed by Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper, a paranoid and an ultra-patriot who believes "The Commies are stealing our precious bodily fluids".and launches a preemptive attack on Russia:

Has turned Liz into not only a very ugly women genetically - but a very ugly character as well.