rssThe al-Qaeda Justice Department
Friday, July 17, 2009 at 11:01 am
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The latest in high-minded criticism from National Review’s in-house conspiracy theorist Andy McCarthy. He’s infuriated because Jennifer Daskal from Human Rights Watch is working at the Justice Department, as she — get the smelling salts ready — worked for years to bring the Bush administration’s detentions and interrogations regime in line with civilized understandings of global human rights. McCarthy gives this brilliant insight the headline “That’s your Justice Department … or al-Qaeda’s.” That’s a good enough reason as any to never pay attention to him ever again.
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Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 10:04 pm
What's particularly amusing is to read McCarthy's letter to Eric Holder, written without grace or tact, declining even to meet with DOJ's nascent task force on Gitmo. Every accusation levelled in McCarthy's letter, which he presents as fact, has not occurred: There have been no “trained jihadists” released in the US, no investigations of the DOJ lawyers who so abandoned their role as advisers that they became the linchpin of the Bush admin's defense of its Nacht und Nebel policies, and no consequences at all for those who engaged in torture. He ends the letter by touting his own now-distant acccomplishments in an amusing bit of vanity. His blindness to his own lack of prescience (anyone with any sense would be hoping that the letter had disappeared in cyberspace) is enough to make one laugh out loud. So I'd continue to read his maunderings, if only for their entertainment value and a reminder that McCarthy's crystal ball is, well, about as clear as Bill Kristol's.
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