Mach
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This is a wonderful example of how politics works, and how political partisanship dominates the field...and honest debate is *nearly* irrelevant.
The honest message may be leigitimate:
Is there a conflict of interest in having people who participated in X work on project Y? Almost always this is a good question to evaluate, and just as relevant to law/lawyers as any other field/profession.
The political rhetoric they used to make this point is an altogether different beast though:
1. Long arm of Cheney/Republicans to use a big stick on anyone that doesnt' do what they want...*anyone*. It's effective, but is it net effective? I don't know....probably.
2. Provacative AQ7 language gets headlines, and sufficient attention to possibly get what they want.
3. Continues to paint the Obama admin/Dems as incompetent with anti-terrorism/national security issues.
The only reason they are seeing some backlash is because so many in washington ARE lawyers, and because those they are attacking of *some* connections. Otherwise repubs would be behind it like any other partisan attack.
The honest message may be leigitimate:
Is there a conflict of interest in having people who participated in X work on project Y? Almost always this is a good question to evaluate, and just as relevant to law/lawyers as any other field/profession.
The political rhetoric they used to make this point is an altogether different beast though:
1. Long arm of Cheney/Republicans to use a big stick on anyone that doesnt' do what they want...*anyone*. It's effective, but is it net effective? I don't know....probably.
2. Provacative AQ7 language gets headlines, and sufficient attention to possibly get what they want.
3. Continues to paint the Obama admin/Dems as incompetent with anti-terrorism/national security issues.
The only reason they are seeing some backlash is because so many in washington ARE lawyers, and because those they are attacking of *some* connections. Otherwise repubs would be behind it like any other partisan attack.