{"id":408127,"date":"2010-03-09T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78788"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:23:08","slug":"lindsey-graham-attacks-the-%e2%80%98al-qaeda-7%e2%80%b2-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/408127","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham Attacks the \u2018al-Qaeda 7\u2032 Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My story this morning <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/78688\/conservative-rebuke-of-cheney-plays-itself-out\">found the outrage<\/a> over Keep America Safe&#8217;s &#8220;al-Qaeda 7&#8243; ad petering out, with one reason being a general disinterest from politicians who could feed the story. But Josh Rogin <a href=\"http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/03\/09\/graham_blasts_cheney_on_al_qaeda_7_ad\">got Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)<\/a> on the record about the ad, and the pivotal GOP senator takes a mighty hard swing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been a military lawyer for almost 30 years, I represented people as a defense attorney in the military that were charged with some pretty horrific acts, and I gave them my all,&#8221; said Graham. &#8220;This system of justice that we&#8217;re so proud of in America requires the unpopular to have an advocate and every time a defense lawyer fights to make the government do their job, that defense lawyer has made us all safer.&#8221;<span id=\"more-78788\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Graham pointed out that when Supreme Court Justices <strong>John Roberts<\/strong> and <strong>Samuel Alito<\/strong> were facing Senate confirmation, some attempted to use their client lists against them and it was wrong then too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m with<strong> Kenneth Starr<\/strong> on this one,&#8221; Graham added, referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/34050.html\" >a letter<\/a> signed by several GOP lawyers, many of whom defended Bush-era detainee policies, condemning the &#8220;al Qaeda 7&#8243; ad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My story this morning found the outrage over Keep America Safe&#8217;s &#8220;al-Qaeda 7&#8243; ad petering out, with one reason being a general disinterest from politicians who could feed the story. But Josh Rogin got Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on the record about the ad, and the pivotal GOP senator takes a mighty hard swing. &#8220;I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408127","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}