Unsurprisingly, I agree that the lawyers who sought out Gitmo prisoners to defend pro bono do not deserve to work in the DOJ. They are not John Adams. As Powerline notes, the common bond between Western leftists and Muslim jihadis is a shared hatred of America. The Westerners' is sophisticated and masquerades as holding us to a higher standard, wanting us to be out better selves. The Muslims' is frank and clearly motivated.
A few years ago I was working for an organization which had found a wealthy donor to provide some much needed improvements to their old offices. This person was charming and likeable, extraordinarily easy to work with. And was giving substantially out of a real sense of gratitude.
But one day the donor mentioned to me, with the kind of quiet exultation of someone who has landed a real coup and was sharing their joy, that our next lunch would have to be rescheduled because they were meeting with some friends, lawyers who were volunteering to represent the prisoners at Guantanamo.
The clear assumption of the communication was that I would be impressed. I was, of course, not.
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