McCarthyism, I love you. Signed, Liz Cheney

For all the railing against Dick “Heartless Coward” Cheney, some tend to forget how his ignorant daughter, Liz Cheney, may at times be even more of a complete McCarthyite douche than her sweet pappy. Just take a look at this disgusting and propagandizing video released by her organization, Keep America Safe, which basically makes the horrendous claim that DOJ attorneys who defended Guantanamo Bay detainees in court – many of whom are effectively innocent with nothing but circumstantial evidence against them – may be in league with Al-Qaeda.

Even though sweet Lizzie isn’t actually named or heard from in this video, make no mistake: she’s certainly behind it and probably even pushed its release. Which is what makes this response by Ed Brayton ring all the more true:

Notice the McCarthyite tactic of calling them the "Al Qaeda 7" - as if these attorneys were actually members of Al Qaeda. Hey Liz, you repulsive demagogue, I've got a question for you. Would you say the same thing to the fine men and women of the JAG corps who have represented all of the detainees at Gitmo and done so professionally and with distinction?

Would you say that about Col. Stephen Abraham, a highly decorated military intelligence officer and JAG lawyer who quit his job at the Gitmo tribunals after seeing how many men were being held there based on virtually non-existent evidence? Or how about Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a Gitmo prosecutor and JAG officer who resigned his commission in protest of the total lack of due process in those tribunals and the railroading of innocent people?

They aren't alone. Col. Morris Davis, Maj. John Carr, and Maj. Robert Preston were all JAG attorneys assigned to prosecute detainees held at Gitmo. All of them resigned in protest and blew the whistle on the manifest unfairness and star chamber nature of the proceedings. Would you dare call these men the Al Qaeda 5? Hell, I bet you would. Which only reinforces how plainly un-American you really are.

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Those men fought for a bare minimum of legal rights for the detainees at Gitmo, something even the Supreme Court agrees it is our responsibility to give them both under the Constitution and our treaty obligations. And your pathetic demagoguery to paint them as traitors only reflects on the intrinsically un-American nature of your position.

Can’t put it any better myself. As bad as Dick Cheney is, his loathsome offspring deserves just as much scorn for her traitorous bullshit.

(via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)