The blowback against Liz Cheney and William Kristol's hate group, "Keep America Safe," continues to grow, following their group's vicious attack against Department of Justice lawyers.
From Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly:
Last week, Liz Cheney's right-wing vehicle, "Keep America Safe," launched a pretty disgusting smear against nine Justice Department attorneys ...
Last week, Cheney's efforts faced some pushback from the left and right. Fortunately, the blowback from across the legal establishment is getting more forceful and organized.
A group that includes leading conservative lawyers and policy experts, former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and several senior officials of the last Bush Administration, is denouncing as "shameful" Republican attacks on lawyers who came to the Obama Justice Department after representing suspected terrorists. [...]
"We consider these attacks both unjust to the individuals in question and destructive of any attempt to build lasting mechanisms for counterterrorism adjudications," wrote the 19 lawyers whose names were attached to the statement as of early Monday.
The statement cited John Adams's defense of British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre to argue that "zealous representation of unpopular clients" is an important American tradition.
So apparently the line in the sand for the lies and smears that Cheney and company can peddle unchallenged is if it doesn't attack the American justice system as a whole.
And of course one has to wonder if this (latest) example of fear-mongering by Cheney's group has hurt their credibility with the traditional media ... will they get their free and unfettered platform the next time they're launching an agenda-driven attack?