March 10, 2010, by Bob Barr

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, appears to have
inherited her father's disdain for the niceties of constitutional
principles. The former vice president was well-known throughout his tenure
in that job, for missing no opportunity to praise the use of torture (which
he referred to euphemistically as "enhanced interrogation techniques")
against those suspected of violating US anti-terrorism laws, and for often
belittling those who believed that the Bill of Rights might actually apply
to those charged with committing acts of terrorism.
.....

Apparently, at least for some defendants in our system of justice, the
Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which among other things, guarantees
to those accused of a criminal offense the right to have counsel in their
defense, now occupies a place on that lengthening list of rights enumerated
in our Constitution that the Cheney clan has decided we no longer need.

In fact, in Cheney World, lawyers who dared to provide legal counsel for
those facing such serious charges as committing acts of terrorism should be
forever thereafter barred from serving in any government job; and also
probably should be branded on their forhead with a scarlet "T" (for
"terrorism lover").

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