{"id":389881,"date":"2010-03-04T17:53:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78445"},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:53:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:53:27","slug":"who-knew-the-bush-administration-was-so-filled-with-terrorist-sympathizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389881","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew the Bush Administration Was So Filled With Terrorist Sympathizers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/78424\/gop-senators-smearing-doj-lawyers-for-defending-gtmo-detainees-voted-for-gtmo-detainee-defense\">not just Alberto Gonzales<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=03&amp;year=2010&amp;base_name=another_bush_official_defends\">Adam Serwer talks to John Bellinger<\/a>, who served as Condoleezza Rice&#8217;s legal adviser at the State Department and the National Security Council, about the Grassley\/Sessions\/Cheneyite smears on the Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s unfortunate that these individuals are being criticized for their past representation, it reflects the politicization and the polarization of terrorism issues,&#8221; Bellinger said. \u201cneither republicans nor democrats should be attacking officials in each other\u2019s administration\u2019s based solely on the clients they have represented in the past.\u201d<span id=\"more-78445\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a longstanding tradition in our country for lawyers to represent unpopular causes, and they shouldn\u2019t be attacked for doing so,&#8221; Bellinger added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew George W. Bush hired so many traitors! Can&#8217;t wait to see the Keep America Safe ad attacking Bellinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just Alberto Gonzales. Adam Serwer talks to John Bellinger, who served as Condoleezza Rice&#8217;s legal adviser at the State Department and the National Security Council, about the Grassley\/Sessions\/Cheneyite smears on the Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees: \u201cI think it\u2019s unfortunate that these individuals are being criticized for their past representation, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}