Jihadist Attorneys at Dept of Justice

by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: When Barack Obama ran for president, he often promised he would not appoint a lobbyist who represented various U.S. companies to jobs in the government. Why? Because there was too much risk that those lobbyists would continue to represent the business interests instead of the public good.

Now comes some astonishing news. Since January 2009, Obama has appointed to jobs in the Justice Department nine individuals who previously represented or advocated for the jihadist thugs being held at Guantanamo Bay♠, Cuba. Yes, you read that right.

Perhaps this explains why Obama’s Justice Department seems so interested in giving foreign jihadist suspects constitutional rights to which they are not entitled. But it gets worse. The Justice Department refuses to release the names of the nine individuals! We know only two of the names from previous news stories. For example, one of the attorneys is former Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal. He once served as the lawyer for Osama bin Laden’s driver. Today, he is the deputy solicitor general, arguing cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The public deserves to know who the other appointees are. We pay their salaries. They work for us. Tell us their names, their positions and the roles they have played in formulating the ridiculous Department of Justice policies that have us now telling enemy combatants that they have a “right” to remain silent.
Gary Bauer is is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families. He submitted this article in an email to the ARRA News Service Editor. Bauer was a former Republican presidential candidate and served as President Ronald Reagan’s domestic policy adviser.

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