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It is a pincer action against the presidency -- a bipartisan, cross-ideological effort to make it as difficult as possible to handle domestic national security emergencies...
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist,” says the lowgrade con man to the supposedly-crack Customs agent in the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects, speaking of the great criminal mastermind Keyser Söze.
The Obama administration and its critics are locked in a standoff over whether to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged Sept. 11 conspirators in a military commission or in federal court. . . .
Efforts that are purportedly about transparency of government service and adherence to conflict-of-interest policies are, unfortunately, being used to paint detainee lawyers as disloyal to the country. . . .
It is deeply wrong to stigmatize those in the Justice Department who have represented Guantánamo detainees in their prior careers. . . .
I signed the letter because I believe one can serve as a lawyer outside of government, and then enter government to do important work on that same topic — even advocating the views of an administration that has come to different conclusions. . . .