Comments on: The al-Qaeda Justice Department http://washingtonindependent.com/51599/the-al-qaeda-justice-department National News in Context Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:53:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Glad http://washingtonindependent.com/51599/the-al-qaeda-justice-department/comment-page-1#comment-46424 John Glad Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:04:00 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=51599#comment-46424 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. 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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