ACLU/Gitmo jihadi lawyers questioned on blowing CIA officers’ cover
What better way for the Left to show its true stripes than to share classified information and photos of undercover CIA officers with Gitmo detainees.
But, hey, don’t you dare question their love of country. After all, endangering America is the ultimate form of dissent!
We also now learn that the privacy zealots at the ACLU hired photographers to take secret photos of CIA personnel outside their homes.
Via the Washington Post:
The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
Investigators are looking into allegations that laws protecting classified information were breached when three lawyers showed their clients the photographs, the sources said. The lawyers were apparently attempting to identify CIA officers and contractors involved in the agency’s interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects in facilities outside the United States, where the agency employed harsh techniques.
If detainees at the U.S. military prison in Cuba are tried, either in federal court or by a military commission, defense lawyers are expected to attempt to call CIA personnel to testify.
The photos were taken by researchers hired by the John Adams Project, a joint effort of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, to support military counsel at Guantanamo Bay, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry. It was unclear whether the Justice Department is also examining those organizations.
Both groups have long said that they will zealously investigate the CIA’s interrogation program at “black sites” worldwide as part of the defense of their clients. But government investigators are now looking into whether the defense team went too far by allegedly showing the detainees the photos of CIA officers, in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes.
If proved, the allegations would highlight how aggressively both military lawyers and their allies in the human rights community are moving to shed light on the CIA’s interrogation practices and defend their clients. Defense attorneys, however, described the investigation as an attempt by the government to intimidate them into not exposing what happened to their clients.
When contacted about the investigation, the ACLU declined to discuss specifics.
“We are confident that no laws or regulations have been broken as we investigated the circumstances of the torture of our clients and as we have vigorously defended our clients’ interests,” said Anthony D. Romero, the group’s executive director. “Rather than investigate the CIA officials who undertook the torture, they are now investigating the military lawyers who have courageously stepped up to defend these clients in these sham proceedings.”
It is unclear whether the military lawyers under investigation identified the CIA personnel in the photographs to the al-Qaeda suspects or simply asked the detainees whether they had ever seen them. It is also unclear whether the inquiry involves violations of federal statutes prohibiting the identification of covert CIA officers or violations of military commission rules governing the disclosure of classified information, including to the defendants.
Privacy for jihadi, but not for thee.
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Same group was protesting the outing of Valerie Plame, right?
Hey, what’s good for Scooter Libby…
We can’t count on this administration to protect this country with the same vigor as the Bush administration. Obama’s whole gitmo/GWOT “policy” (or lack thereof) is a huge disaster that is coming up on the horizon. How could 53% of this country be so stupid to put this untried neophyte in the White House?
And hey, don’t ever question the identity of some blonde bimbo named Valerie Plame and her undercoverness!
…didn’t the ACLU throw hissy fits about Plame?
This, to me, tells me the sources are within the Justice Department, and rather sympathetic to the ACLU action.
Oh c’mon, why would they? The JD is too busy going after REAL criminals like those who were interrogating jihadis for the last several years.
I bet Holder is warming up the hordes of JD lawyers now to investigate this, in coordination with nostrilitis Waxman and ol Joe Wilson demanding to know why their covert identities were compromised!
….along with Michael Moore…as soon as his pizzas are done.
Uh…25% of those 53% were dead people voting through some selfless ACORN volunteer?
Talk about a kabal made in hell!
republicanvet, please don’t tell me you are surprised at the hypocrisy of the left?
I’m shocked that The Washington Post reported this.
The hypocrisy of the ACLU knows no bounds. If a legitamate investigator drives through a neighborhood where an investigatee lives they cry “invasion of privacy.” Yet, taking pictures of covert ops CIA agents oustide their own homes seems be be an ends to a mean for them.
If this is true, the military lawyers should be charged under the UCMJ. They can claim ignorance and say they didn’t know who they were showing pictures of, but ignorance is not a proper military defense.
Good grief, what a bunch of zealots. I hope CIA family members were not included in the frames.
The “John Adams Project”? Riiiight, because the Colonial Brits are morally equivalent to the GITMO terrorists. How long before we are told that the ACLU stands for the “American Christian Liberties Union”. But hey, I have some other suggestions:
The Benedict Arnold Project.
The Alger Hiss Project.
The Lynne Stewart Project.
The Bin Laden Project.
Lynne Stewart actually happens to be a faux heroine this group defended.
It is act like these lawyers when you know there are a bunch of 19 year old kids who believe in their country and Constituion standing in the way of the friends of these inmates. The jihadists would gut these lawyers like a fish if it were not for these American patriots.
But then they are liberals, entitled to their protection, which allows them to pursue their twisted sense of justice in safety.
Protecting people like them was one of those disgusting duties you have to perform.
Not awake this morning.
First sentence should read, “It is easy to act….”
COFFEE!!
So let me understand this: The ‘lefties’ invoke rage at Valerie Plame – a non official”covert” CIA operative being ‘outed’ Robert Novack, but believe they are well within their legal rights to out the identities of official covert CIA officers taken outside their homes.
THIS doesn’t warrant any righteous indignation by the left. These officers are deemed to be evil and worthy of exposure, endangers them personally & their families.
Yet Valerie Plame, formerly of the CIA, that same “evil” organisation the ACLU is determined to bring down,that invokes vitriol from the left, was turned into a celebrity- splashed all over the front cover of Vanity Fair while a long list of Republicans allegedly involved in this fabricated nonsense called “Plamegate” were vilified simply because they were Republicans.
Outting Valerie Plane of the CIA accidently – VERY BAD
Outting Covert CIA Interrogators who have only been accused of using torture by scumbag terrorists – VERY GOOD.
What effing hypocrisy!! Can we get pictures of each of the ACLU lawyers and researchers at the John Adams Project, in front of their homes, and publish them with their names? You know—so the lefties can personally build a shrine in their yards—I mean NO HARM could possibly come to them, right?
The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
To understand why the defense attorneys for these terrorists can be so sympathetic to terrorists and so eager to endanger the safety of CIA operatives, you have to understand the strange psychology behind these lawyers. Most of them are doing this as “pro bono” assignments from large blue blood Wall Street law firms. Most of these law firms have five proper blue blood names on their letterhead. The lawyers there think of themselves as cool dudes, wealthy and with it. But their work, while lucrative, is dry as dust. Most of it is arranging buy outs of failing companies and doing the dull work of putting together public disclosure statements and writing the deadly dull legal mumbo jumbo for public offerings. This is not the stuff that these lawyers can brag about out at the club in the Hamptons on the lovely Agust weekends by the sea. But all of a sudden comes the chance to go to Gitmo and represent terrorists whose target was the USA and these lawyers jump at it. Of course, these lawyers would never socialize with the Gitmo detainees and allow the Gitmo criminals to visit them out at East Hampton. But to go down to Gitmo and to have the chance to snare at American soldiers and MPs and to feel like your’e part of the vanguard!! Well that has an enormous appeal to these lawyers, most of whom went to eastern prep schools. And now they have something to regale their friends with out at the Hamptons. This is why these lawyers are so eager to do it.
With this administration and their liberal sychophants, lying and hypocricy are performed in the open with no attempt to conceal their motives or their actions.
Shame and embarassment are non-existent. Until consequences are felt for their behavior, nothing will change.
Anthony Romero leads a band of traitors at the ACLU’s John Adams Project.
I believe Article III, Section 3 is the appropriate comment:
Of course, since the ACLU’s fellow travellers are the prosecutors, they feel safe in adhering to the enemies of the US and giving them aid and comfort.
Had the military tribunals been held in 2002, then all of this nonsense would be meaningless because the worst of the terrorists would have been executed and the rest, if there were any rest, would have been sent to Bermuda to work at a restaurant.
If you capture spies and terrorists, you execute them quickly. This entire episode will have an impact on the battlefield as it is now increasingly obvious that an informal policy of “shoot first and make sure that no questions can be asked later” will be in place with an individual soldier.
In addition to treason charges for these yo=yos, I would like to propose the following:
Round up the ‘journalists’ who were bemoaning the exposure of Valerie Plame and interview them, focusing on comparing the two cases. I’d like to see a tag team composed of Fox’s Megyn Kelly, Ann Coulter & our gracious hostess.
Ram it through, regardless of consequences. Just like everything else…
Wow. Nice lawyerly response to the questions. Would love to see the ACLU get shorn … they’ve been begging for it for years now.
Where’s the line to apply for special guest referee?
Can it get worse? The well has been poisoned.
ACLU = tyranny of the “compassionate.”
Life in jail sounds like a reasonable compromise as punishment for those involved in taking the photographs of these CIA operatives. Especially given the alternative of execution should these acts be determined to be treason.
DITTO TO EVERYTHING SAID ABOVE. if jail is good for libby, these jerks deserve cells next to the terrorists.
Oxymoron. They are never “righteous”.
Just a little Gitmo community organizing…Next, bus tours ? Sponsored by ACORN, of course.
unnecessary /sarc tag here.
This is expected behavior of the ACLU.
Sadly, this is also becoming expected behavior of our military lawyers.
Wonder if Anthony is related to George Romero, the director of The Night of the Living Dead? The zombie-meister now has the perfect plot for his next movie in which ACLU lawyers slowly creep on all good Americans to take over. The only way to stop them is to shoot/decapitate/chainsaw the lawyers to death.
Hmmmmmmmm…bet there would be a large number of cheering audiences. Box office smash!
Hey…a guy can still have his fantasies, can’t he?
They’ve finally shown their true stripes. The “A” in ACLU stands for “al-Qaeda”.
All of these people should be tried for treason and executed
Thanks ACLU and liberal flooded ranks of the JAG CORPS. The same JAG attorneys at CENTCOM who prevented strategic bomb attacks on a Taliban funeral where 200 high ranking terrorists were lined up and sighted by a predator drone. JAG advised the generals it was unlawful to bomb a cemetery, even though the Taliban bombed funeral processions. Better to save a few terrorists so they can murder thousands later and continue to plot the destruction of America. JAG is a politically correct organization in the U.S. Military, stacked high as ACLU plants. Same goes for the Pentagon. When Sarah Palin is sworn in, her first duty should be to purge demented liberals from our military.
Money before Honor.
Acclaim before Shame.
Ideology before Ethics.
Party before Country.
It’s the same, it seems, for all those on the left of the political spectrum. From the generaltions of simpletons using public assistance as “their” jobs, to the angry elitist who pays America back for their success, by doing everything in their power to destroy her, which includes defending her enemies.
These destroyers of worlds, who have no religion, except for liberalism, and pray to no God, except money, return to the same theme whenever their plans get bogged down, or stymied.
Cite Christian values, and quote the Bible. The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same.
The outing, even to death, of American operatives has been a play time passion of the Left, the New York Times and such for years. The Blond Bimbo Valerie Plame was one of theirs so that is different even though she was NOT an operative.
I do not know how but I think we need to start “outing” ACLU lawyers and Times reporters.
Haven’t you heard how smart we all are now since there is a rebellion against Odopdo and his health care(crap)plan, his stimulus bill(more like buy the banks bill), absconding with 2 of 3 big auto corp.’s…and on and on and on…wait, do not forget “amnesty” is right around the corner.
We were so smart we gave our country, the greatest in history away to a bunch of left wing, Chicago thugs. Capone and J. Daily would be proud.
So where is the outrage shown towards V.P. Cheney, Libby, Pres. Bush, and anyone else involved in the B.S. trumped up Valerie Plame lie? Why is Scooter Libby not fully pardoned? After all, according to these statements, he is a brave patriot, right?
But with the usurper installed into the Oval Office, you can be sure that there will be no arrests or prosecutions for Treason or Sedition as should be levied against these traitors who had just one thing in mind…to intimidate and have murdered those they deem to be evil.
Liberals have such a blatant disconnect with reality that it is impossible to understand their mindset. They willfully give aid and comfort to our enemies any chance they get and work dilligently to undermine, weaken and destroy the very fabric of this nation daily, encouraged and safe in the knowledge that with their stranglehold amd control of the media, that they will never have to answer for their treasonous actions and crimes.
Those who took part in this need to be arrested, vigoroidly prosecuted and those found guilty given the choice of firing squad or a short drop with a quick stop, with those who support and defend their actions arrested and tried as accessories and all made public examples of.
This actually is the fault of George Bush. He set up these illegal prisons.
And because they are “illegal” the Obama administration took immediate steps to close them down, isn’t that right? I dare say that no matter what it is you don’t like, you brand it as illegal or immoral.
Tell you what, lgm…I am willing to start a fund for your headstone in which we will inscribe “…it was all George W. Bush’s fault.” That way your way of thinking can be displayed in perpetuity.
Come back anytime you have a rational thought. I hope it will not die of loneliness in that crowded brain of yours.
Do you determine every “right or wrong” based on equivalency to how you perceive the Bush presidency?
You consider showing photos of covert CIA operatives outside of their homes to suspected terrorists “okay” simply because you disliked President Bush’s handling of the war?
You weaken the liberal point of view by coming off as so petty.
So why do we not charge these morons with treason?
The ACLU is one of many Communist front-groups.
ACORN is another.
The Democratic Party itself is by
The Communists now completely control the Democratic (Democratic Socialist) party, and have significant influence within the Republican Party.
steveegg is absolutely right that this is treason.
We. Are. At. WAR!
Domestic enemies, enemies of our Constitution and the freedoms we love and have come to take for granted, are absolutely at war with us. They currently control the executive and legislative branches, and a almost completely control the judicial branch (if we lose 1 of our 4 conservatives on the Supreme Court, they will completely control the judicial branch as well).
The Che-loving leftists prevented Bush from filling numerous judicial appointments, that will now be filled by Obama.
If you think things are bad now, this is just the beginning.
Obama was born with British citizenship. That is an undisputed fact that was acknowledged by his own campaign. His father was a British subject, and that passed from father to son at birth.
Such a person is not a “natural born citizen of the United States”, and is ineligible to hold the office of President and Commander in Chief of all of our Armed Forces. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is a legal issue. And we better get serious about removing this usurper from office.
The Democratic Party itself is byJust ignore that line.
Preview is my friend…
Brevity used to be the soul of wit, but you are fast becoming the “exception that proves the rule”.
Our current leader has said so many time (more than be counted) that he inherited all these problems. It used to irratate me, but I now see a different light.
Think about this from a legal sense. If someone bequeaths something to you and you accept, then ownership transfers to the one who accepts it.
So for this case, it doesn’t matter where the inheritance came from because now Obama owns it. Therefore, he has to deal with it. So far has a perfect record – he’s messed it all up.
The only thing MORE disgusting and hypocritical than the ACLU is B Hussein Obama playing the God card to get gov’t run health insurance.
“Bearing false witness”????
He used the BIBLE????? (what if we did that?)
Is he kidding? Does he wish to rot what’s left of his soul?
Hey TOTUS, look in the mirror. Put your own ten percent (tithe) in, not 1/2 of one percent as you did for sooo many years, and QUIT playing God by condemning so many others while you and yours are so blatantly dishonest and evil.
If there is a hell, ….well you know where I’m going with this.
TWENTY YEARS at the Rev Wright evil empire and you have the hubris to play the RELIGION cry for help????
Good Grief.
p.s. IF the limo-liberals did tithe, we would have no problems in HC.
On August 21st, 2009 at 10:07 pm, shooter said:
Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” Speech
STFU, LGM