Holder: Detainee Lawyers are Patriots
[Guest post by DRJ]
Attorney General Eric Holder says the DOJ lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees are patriots:
“Two weeks after a conservative group disparaged Justice Department lawyers who previously represented terror suspects, Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday weighed in for the first time, calling such lawyers “patriots.”
“Those who reaffirm our nation’s most essential and enduring values do not deserve to have their own values questioned,” Holder told a group of lawyers who offer “pro bono,” or voluntary, legal services. “Let me be clear about this: Lawyers who provide counsel for the unpopular are, and should be treated as what they are: patriots.”
If they are patriots, most are nameless patriots because Holder still won’t identify 7 of the 9 politically-appointed DOJ lawyers who previously represented Guantanamo detainees.
There is a place for pro bono representation in American society and once a lawyer undertakes that representation, he or she should do so responsibly and diligently. However, I’m not convinced detainee lawyers are patriots any more than plumbers, office workers, and doctors who do their jobs responsibly and diligently are patriots.
Pro bono lawyers may love civil rights and due process but a “patriot” is defined as a person who loves, supports, and defends his country, not selected principles. And if the latter is the definition of a patriot, then will Eric Holder also acknowledge that defenders of the Second Amendment are patriots?
— DRJ
You mean those guys who want everyone in Starbuck’s carrying loaded assault rifles?
larry reilly (fadcab) — 3/19/2010 @ 12:25 pmThey’re not patriots.
They’re just scared of black men.
giving aid and comfort to our enemies in time of war is high treason and those convicted of such should be hung by neck until dead. defending those who commit such acts is the same thing as the original act, and should be punished the same way.
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 3/19/2010 @ 12:27 pmYou mean those guys who want everyone in Starbuck’s carrying loaded assault rifles?They’re not patriots.
They’re just scared of black men.
Deemed non-responsive, and irrelevant.
AD - RtR/OS! (b083e4) — 3/19/2010 @ 12:29 pmi deem you a moron……
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 3/19/2010 @ 12:30 pmYou be the judge…
Andy McCarthy wrote:
“Gitmo’s Indefensible Lawyers”
That’s the title of of a mind-blowing op-ed: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704131404575117611125872740.html by Debra Burlingame and Tom Joscelyn in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. Debra and Tom make mince-meat of the hallucination that casts the Gitmo Bar as modern John Adamses. The essay recounts, among other things:
The Gitmo Bar — in gross violation of the conditions of access to the enemy combatants — provided al Qaeda detainees with a propaganda brochure that instructed them on how falsely to claim that they had been tortured and abused. As the Gitmo commander put it, “The very nature of this document gives tremendous moral support to those who would strike out against our country…. It is not a factual report. Instead it is filled with second and third hand accounts, photos of protests that were staged, inflammatory photos from Iraq and provocative story captions.”
“The Gitmo Bar — in gross violation of the conditions of access to the enemy combatants — provided al Qaeda detainees with a propaganda brochure that instructed them on how falsely to claim that they had been tortured and abused. As the Gitmo commander put it, “The very nature of this document gives tremendous moral support to those who would strike out against our country…. It is not a factual report. Instead it is filled with second and third hand accounts, photos of protests that were staged, inflammatory photos from Iraq and provocative story captions.”
The Gitmo Bar fomented a detainee hunger strike that disrupted security at the camp and set the stage for fabricated reports that the detainees were being tortured and force-fed.
The Gitmo Bar provided the detainees with virulently anti-American rhetoric that compared military physicians to Nazi Josef Mengele, labeled DOJ lawyers “desk torturers,” and informed the detainees about the Abu Ghraib abuses and the potential for framing President Bush as a war criminal.
The Gitmo Bar provided the enemy combatant terrorists with a hand-drawn map of the detention camp’s lay-out, including guard towers.
The Gitmo Bar incited the detainees against the military guards.
The Gitmo Bar posted photos of Guantanamo security badges on the Internet in a transparent effort to identify U.S. security personnel.
The Gitmo Bar facilitated enemy combatants in communicating messages and interviews to their confederates and the outside world.
The Gitmo Bar provided a detainee with a list identifying all the other detainees in custody.
The Gitmo Bar provided the detainees with news accounts about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, including reports that U.S. forces were sustaining devastating casualities from IED attacks. (Again, it was a court-ordered condition of the lawyers’ access to these war prisoners that they not be given information relating to military operations, intelligence, arrests, political news and current events, and the names of U.S. government personnel.)
The Gitmo Bar provided KSM and the 9/11 plotters — i.e., the murderers of 3000 Americans — with photographs of covert CIA officers in an effort to identify them as interrogators. (Leftist lawyers are attempting to have these interrogators indicted for torture and war crimes.)
The Gitmo Bar brags about its role in the release of enemy combatants who have returned to the jihad against American troops and the American people.
In a word, sickening.”
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjdlMzE0NGIxMzY0ODI3OTNiNTdhYTdlYjljNWQ0ZWU=
GeneralMalaise (f0137a) — 3/19/2010 @ 12:39 pmI am surprised more people are not outraged by this. Holder and his band of useful idiots are the lowest of the low.
GeneralMalaise (f0137a) — 3/19/2010 @ 1:43 pmSome members of “the Gitmo bar” also provided detainees with photographs of CIA agents in the hopes of identifying some of their interrogators. Then, having “outed” these undercover agents, they could call them to testify in open court.
Weren’t the Democrats all outraged by Valeria Plame being identified as CIA by some Armitage guy?
Gesundheit (cfa313) — 3/19/2010 @ 1:51 pmHolder has achieved something I hadn’t thought possible: He’s made Janet Reno look good.
Socratease (02c2d9) — 3/19/2010 @ 2:04 pmI see larry reilly is still the same piece of name-calling crap.
SPQR (26be8b) — 3/19/2010 @ 2:08 pmThese vermin are commiting TREASON by giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Let alone showing them pictures of US Operatives and providing propaganda strategies to the human scum that are “detainies.” Better to bomb them than take them prisoner, don’t ask me, just ask Obamao — that’s what he’s doing now.
J. Raymond Wright (e8d0ca) — 3/19/2010 @ 2:15 pmLarry is only sorry that he’s not a lawyer who could volunteer to defend Gitmo terrorists and sneak in files.
Mike K (2cf494) — 3/19/2010 @ 2:16 pm[…] Real Patriot ™ picks up his Bosca legal briefcase and delivers inflammatory material to Gitmo detainees so that […]
Six Meat Buffet » Blog Archive » On The Constitution And Why The Fascist Left Will Never Understand It (b32d35) — 3/19/2010 @ 4:31 pmWho said they did it pro bono? Some of them were paid, and paid well, by Saudi or other terror financiers. Others worked pro bono (wink, nudge) but their firms got other business from the logistical side of Al Qaeda.
The Holder DOJ is rotten with these Quislings, starting with Holder himself, who himself handled a number of terror cases, a small detail he concealed when he was nominated. The example these payroll patriots use is John Adams and the Boston Massacre perps, but Quisling’s really a better fit — they were motivated not by duty to justice, but by the chance to impose a particular ideology.
Kevin R.C. O'Brien (9fe80a) — 3/19/2010 @ 4:59 pm“Attorney General Eric Holder says the DOJ lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees are patriots:”
In the proud tradition of Dembot patriots like Jefferson Davis, Alger Hiss and Ramsey Clark.
Dave Surls (5ac459) — 3/19/2010 @ 5:25 pm