Liz Cheney accused of McCarthyism over campaign against lawyers
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/11/liz-cheney-keep-america-safe
Not long after the Twin Towers fell, Dick Cheney declared the death of more than two centuries of American tradition. "It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws," he said. The then vice-president did his best to follow through by riding roughshod over the constitution and international laws by promoting torture, indefinite detention without trial and support for secretive military tribunals in which defendants were stripped of many of their rights.
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