The Obama administration is more than willing to release classified records showing enhanced interrogation techniques used against terrorists. But the identities of taxpayer-funded lawyers at the Justice Department are strictly confidential.
Earlier this week, a conservative group headed by Liz Cheney unveiled a video asking the Justice Department to release the names of seven lawyers who had previously defended terrorist detainees. The Justice Department has only named two and refuses to go any further. This is a slap in the face to taxpayers and also a little scary. Conflicts of interest aren't kosher at the Justice Department, and that's when they just involve lobbyists. Any of these five anonymous attorneys could have defended and conferred with detainees who were members of al Qaeda or the Taliban. We're at war with al Qaeda and the Taliban.
The two names that have been released are Jennifer Daskal and and Neal Katyal. Katyal was a lawyer in the famous Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case. Daskal represented detainees collectively for the liberal group Human Rights Watch. If Eric Holder was willing to release those names, why not the other five? How much worse could they possibly be? What is the DOJ hiding?
Here's the video from Liz Cheney's group Keep America Safe:
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