In a twist, ‘al Qaeda Seven’ becomes ‘al Qaeda Ten’
The Obama Justice Department has grudgingly released the identities of the “al Qaeda Seven” to Fox News. As Fox itself acknowledges, it turns out that most of the seven attorneys “played only minor or short-lived roles in advocating for detainees.”
For example, the names of two of the seven attorneys appear just once, in a Supreme Court filing by their previous law firm. Another was a detainee defense attorney for seven months. Two others also helped file single court briefs, and both were joined in those briefs by the conservative Rutherford Institute.
These are the people who were smeared so viciously by Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol, operating through an organization called “Keep America Safe.” That’s the group that dubbed the attorneys “the al Qaeda Seven” in a video that asked, “Whose values do THEY share?” as images of Osama bin Laden flash in the background.
I’ll present the video here once again, as a reminder of just how despicable Cheney et. al really are. And then we’ll talk about an interesting little twist the case has taken:
As it turns out, the Bush administration that Cheney’s father served as vice president, that Kristol served as smirking cheerleader, and that Cheney herself served in the State Department, also hired lawyers who had done pro bono work for detainees.
As Fox reports:
Pratik Shah, an assistant to the Solicitor General hired by the Bush Administration, was part of the WilmerHale team that put together arguments for the Boumediene v. Bush case.
Trisha Anderson, an adviser in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel who was also hired by the Bush Administration, was previously an attorney at Attorney General Eric Holder’s former firm, Covington & Burling, where she helped represent 13 Yemeni detainees.
Varda Hussain, an attorney hired in 2008 with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, was an associate with the Washington-based firm Venable when she helped represent three Egyptians being held at Guantanamo Bay.
“Varda has spent over 500 hours in the past year fighting to bring due process to our clients,” a firm newsletter said in 2006.
Whose values do THEY share? How could the two Cheneys, Kristol and their allies have allowed such terrorist sympathizers inside the walls of the U.S. government? Could the Cheneys themselves be al Qaeda plants, out to destroy this country from within?
Could they? Well, could they?
Somebody needs to make another video.
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Jenifer
March 4th, 2010
8:13 am
“Could the Cheneys themselves be al Qaeda plants, out to destroy this country from within?”
Affirmative.
Mick
March 4th, 2010
8:14 am
Jay, maybe it’s not as dire as you think. Liz cheney and bill kristol need to be ignored, they have no credibility and are just spitting into the wind.
Paul
March 4th, 2010
8:14 am
So Fox pursues the story, debunks the commercial and shows similar examples from the Bush Administration? I think I read that correctly.
So much for the Administration’s war on Fox. Ah, bipartisanship –
[[Whose values do THEY share?]]
They have values? That’s another thread -
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:14 am
“Could the Cheneys themselves be al Qaeda plants, out to destroy this country from within?”
yes.
so, can we deport them, now?
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:15 am
dangitall, Bosch should be here … he says something about Cheney … I just can’t remember what it is … Paul, do you know???
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:16 am
Mick
March 4th, 2010
8:14 am
And the Obama administration has credibility?
Paul
March 4th, 2010
8:17 am
USinUK
Yeah, something about wanting to go hunting with him….
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:18 am
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:14 am
Yes, Cheney is evil. After all, he supported the Patriot Act. Ooops! BHO extended it for a second time.
Normal
March 4th, 2010
8:19 am
Oh! Oh! Oh! I know, I know! Cheney is evil…Right?
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:19 am
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:14 am
And Obama didn’t shut down the “illegal” operation in Gitmo either. Hmm, can be book a seat on that deportation ship?
Outhouse GoKart
March 4th, 2010
8:20 am
Before condemning Cheney etc., lettuce not forget about the liar we have installed in the whitehouse and his henchman Von Holder.
Outhouse GoKart
March 4th, 2010
8:21 am
Its Bushs fault.
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:21 am
Paul
March 4th, 2010
8:17 am
I saw a bumper sticker a few years ago that read something like:
“I’d rather go hunting any day with Dick Cheney than to be a passenger in a car driven by Ted Kennedy.” I just had to laugh.
jt
March 4th, 2010
8:21 am
Whose values do THEY share?
Politicians s#ck.
None of this changes the fact that there are thousands of poor Americans languishing in our prisons for lack of competent legal representation.
It just ain’t sexy enough.
stands for decibels
March 4th, 2010
8:23 am
a tragically typical FoxNooze reader posts in the linked piece’s comments page:
I know that lawyers will give you that old tired crap about “Innocent until proven guilty” and “everyone deserves legal representation and a fair trial” My response to that is that terrorist do not come under our civil legal system. They are terrorist, and should be treated as such, i.e., tried by a military tribunal after which they should be put up against the wall and shot.
Jay, how often do we need to point out to these guys that nobody has been executed as the result of a military hearing for nearly fifty years? Is our children learning?
(and now I really gotta run.)
Normal
March 4th, 2010
8:23 am
Bill and Liz = Boris Banenov and Natasha fatale. Nothing more than cartoon characters.
Southern Comfort
March 4th, 2010
8:24 am
credibility is relative.
Jus sayin…
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:25 am
Normal
March 4th, 2010
8:23 am
Sounds like you should be plotting big trrrrrouble for moose and squirrel.
Jenifer
March 4th, 2010
8:25 am
Lizerd Cheeeeeeney is to politics what Paris Hilton is to entertainment.
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:28 am
Paul – “Yeah, something about wanting to go hunting with him….”
(snort)
Normal – 8:23 – I KNEW you went to whatsamatta u!!!
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:29 am
not jimmeh – 8:18 and :19 … and yet, O is making the US less safe … funny, that.
RNC Strategist
March 4th, 2010
8:29 am
They’re multiplying! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
Southern Comfort
March 4th, 2010
8:30 am
Hunting with Cheney is no problem just as long as you can always see his back.
Finn McCool
March 4th, 2010
8:31 am
Kristol looks like a nazi.
Just sayin’
Young Frankfurter
March 4th, 2010
8:33 am
The message in that 7:03 was that one can begin to suffer from delierium and hallucinations, amongst other things, when sleep deprived. The cure is to NOT watch a buffoon on red-eye TeeVee.
Mick
March 4th, 2010
8:34 am
jc
**And the Obama administration has credibility?**
Yes – he was elected by the people. Liz & billy? Know nothing know it alls..
TnGelding
March 4th, 2010
8:36 am
Well, I guess they could be, but I would call them misguided and silly. Not tp mention impotent and envious.
It was despicable, irregardless. The attorneys were doing their jobs of defending the accused. They should be commended instead of ridiculed.
It’s so much easier to criticize and denigrate when you don’t have to answer to anyone. Why does the media continue to carry their water?
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:36 am
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:29 am
“funny that”.
Hmm. I was just curious if you thought O should be deported along with Cheney since he obviously supports his “evil” and “illegal” policies.
Young Frankfurter
March 4th, 2010
8:37 am
One of my ancestors was Mayor of Oscar. He won the election year after year. He won so often that he became known simply as the Oscar Mayor weiner.
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:38 am
Young Frankfurter
March 4th, 2010
8:37 am
I thought Oscar Meyer was the head coach at the University of Florida.
TnGelding
March 4th, 2010
8:39 am
jt
March 4th, 2010
8:21 am
Another national disgrace.
Outhouse GoKart
March 4th, 2010
8:39 am
Well yes he was elected by the people, however, many of those young people are now suffering buyers remorse. This fact should drive them from the Dem party to who knows where.
It may turn out that Obama is the best thing that couldve happened to the REP party!
Normal
March 4th, 2010
8:39 am
Young Frankfurter
March 4th, 2010
8:37 am
TnGelding
March 4th, 2010
8:41 am
Outhouse GoKart
March 4th, 2010
8:39 am
…or their worst nightmare.
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:41 am
not jimmeh – since the Patriot Act is the law of the land, it isn’t illegal, by definition.
nice try, though.
and, as I said – if he’s kept all your side’s favorite little policies, then how has he made America less safe???
Southern Comfort
March 4th, 2010
8:44 am
I hear all this talk about Obama driving people from the Democratic Party. As apparent by the actions of those Jay mentioned, the grass isn’t much greener on the other side of the street.
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:44 am
stands for decibels
March 4th, 2010
8:23 am
“Is our children learning?”
Um, apparently not:
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1642
david wayne osedach
March 4th, 2010
8:45 am
Al Qaedi seven or ten. Enough already. Make them go away!
md
March 4th, 2010
8:45 am
First statement of the video:
“The pendulum is about to swing, America run by progressives, and we will be looking for those that share our values”
Didn’t need to watch the rest, that told me all I needed to know.
Partisanship will be the death of this country, not terrorism.
Mick
March 4th, 2010
8:45 am
It’s obvious that obama will never be popular with southern man but if you are throwing the word credibilty around please don’t even utter the name bush. For the record – I do not have buyers remorse – yet.
Finn McCool
March 4th, 2010
8:46 am
many of those young people are now suffering buyers remorse.
i have to get one of these crystal balls that knows exactly what all the “young” people and other age groups are thinking at every moment.
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:49 am
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:41 am
“nice try, though”. Back at you with that one. But, but it HAS to be evil, right? After all, Bush and Cheney (who you said is evil and should be deported) were responsible for that “law” that Obama has twice extended. Try as you may, but you cannot have it both ways.
Also, you mockingly ask how things are on “side”. I’m not a Republican so I wouldn’t know. But hey, answer me this, just how are things with the local branch of the U.S. Democrat party in the United Kingdom?
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:49 am
finn – 8:46 – why? when we have OGK, it’s as good as the same thing!
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:50 am
md
March 4th, 2010
8:45 am
Agreed.
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:50 am
not jimmeh – “After all, Bush and Cheney (who you said is evil and should be deported) were responsible for that “law” that Obama has twice extended. Try as you may, but you cannot have it both ways”
now, where have I ever said that Bush/Cheney were evil because of the Patriot Act??? hmmmm??? please. do point it out.
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:51 am
not jimmeh – “just how are things with the local branch of the U.S. Democrat party in the United Kingdom”
well, since I don’t work for them, I don’t know.
Outhouse GoKart
March 4th, 2010
8:53 am
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:49 am
Outhouse GoKart
March 4th, 2010
8:53 am
BRB…time to go pollute the air with the DREADED SECOND HAND SMOKE!
Watch out all you healthNuts!
Jenifer
March 4th, 2010
8:54 am
It’s really ironic that what these attorneys were doing was defending the same American ideals that these “patriots” Lizerd Cheeeeney and Co. claim to defend.
Jimmy Carter
March 4th, 2010
8:57 am
USinUK
March 4th, 2010
8:50 am
Try as you may, you are not the artful dodger. You claimed Cheney was trying to destroy the US from within and should be deported. If he was such the boogey monster, the why is BHO (YOUR guy) extending many of the policies that the far left decried as “illegal” and “evil”? After all, if he extends many of Bush?Cheney’s policies, and according to you Cheney is trying to destroy the UK from within, then one could certainly assume that you also believe BHO is trying to destroy the US from within. Hmm, I guess we agree on at least one thing in this statement.