Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 3, 2010

Elizabeth Cheney is the daughter of the former Vice President and a former Bush administration official herself. Bill Kristol is publisher of the Weekly Standard magazine. Cheney and Kristol have launched a pressure group called ?Keeping America Safe,? the purpose of which is to promote the use of torture as an interrogation tactic, defend those who institutionalized the practice, and defame those who oppose it.

A recent ad run by that group describes a group of Justice Department attorneys as the ?Al Qaeda 7? because they acted as defense counsel for people detained at Guantanamo. The implication here is that anyone who defends an accused terrorist must himself be considered one, rather than an attorney carrying out a vital constitutional function.

Those who defended Gitmo detainees include many decorated military attorneys who swore an oath to defend the Constitution and pursue justice. Presumably they, too, would be considered al-Qaeda sympathizers by Cheney, Kristol, and their ilk.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.