Keep America Safe

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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2px;">Keep America Safe is an organization funded by Republican fundraiser <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mel_Sembler" title="Mel Sembler" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mel Sembler</a> and operated by former Vice President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dick Cheney</a>'s daughter, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Elizabeth_Cheney" title="Elizabeth Cheney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Elizabeth Cheney</a>. It has three board members: Elizabeth L. Cheney, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Debra_Burlingame&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Debra Burlingame (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Debra Burlingame</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_Kristol" title="William Kristol" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">William Kristol</a>. The organization advocates positions held by Dick Cheney and the former <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_Administration" title="Bush Administration" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bush Administration</a>, specifically opposing the closing of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Guantanamo_Bay" title="Guantanamo Bay" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Guantanamo Bay</a> detainee prison, ending criminal investigations of CIA interrogation methods, and expansion of the U.S. war in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Afghanistan</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_note-home-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a><table id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; width: auto; display: inline; background-image: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#Activism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 Activism</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#Is_that.22Keep_America_Safe.22-or.22Keep_Cheney_Out_of_Jail.22.3F" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 Is that "Keep America Safe" - or "Keep Cheney Out of Jail"?</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#Contact_details" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3 Contact details</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 Articles and resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#Related_Sourcewatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.1 Related Sourcewatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.2 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.3 External articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Activism</h2>Their website urges people to:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_note-home-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Join their group to get their emails</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Contribute money</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Write news editors</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Call talk radio stations</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Write legislators to get their views across</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Is that "Keep America Safe" - or "Keep Cheney Out of Jail"?</h2>In 2009, Scott Horton of Harpers Magazine questioned the purpose of Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol forming the group. He wrote that in the advocacy page of their website, "we find an absolute obsession with one issue: a criminal probe into the origins of the torture program by the Justice Department. The whole Keep America Safe campaign is geared to making the point that the torture program and other Cheney-authored measures that probably crossed the threshold into criminal conduct were perfectly legitimate policy alternatives. Keep America Safe seems largely dedicated to keeping Cheney out of jail."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contact details</h2>Keep America Safe
1718 M Street, NW #351
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 525-4608
Email: info AT KeepAmericaSafe.com
Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.keepamericasafe.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">http://www.keepamericasafe.com</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Articles and resources</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related Sourcewatch articles</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tanks" title="Think tanks" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Think tanks</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-0" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_ref-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Keep America Safe <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.keepamericasafe.com/?page_id=215" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Board members</a>, accessed October 23, 2009</li><li id="cite_note-home-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_ref-home_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_ref-home_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.1</a> Keep America Safe <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.keepamericasafe.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Home page of Keep America Safe</a>, accessed October 23, 2009</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Keep America Safe <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.keepamericasafe.com/?page_id=404" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Write Your Local Newspaper Editors</a>, accessed October 23, 2009</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Accountable America <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.accountableamerica.com/people/sembler" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Mel Sembler</a>, accessed October 23, 2009</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Michael Isikoff <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/10/23/update-major-republican-donor-plans-to-fund-liz-cheney-s-new-organization.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Update: Major Republican Donor Plans to Fund Liz Cheney’s New Organization</a>, Newsweek, October 23, 2009</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Safe#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Scott Horton, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90005980" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Is that "Keep America Safe"—or "Keep Cheney Out of Jail"?</a>", Harpers, October 26, 2009.</li></ol><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">External articles</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Radio Business Report <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rbr.com/media-news/advertising/18017.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">“Keep America Safe” launching on radio, web</a>, October 25, 2009</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Public Radio <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/cheney_obama_keep_america_safe.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Liz Cheney Launches 'Keep America Safe;' Video Skewers Obama</a>, October 13, 2009, accessed October 26, 2009</li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Categories</a>: <ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Lobbying" title="Category:Lobbying" style="text-decoration: none; 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</div><div>Liz Cheney co-founded group promoting neoconservative foreign and counterterrorism policy has been quietly scrubbed from the Internet with its last discernible web presence weeks ago.Keep America Safe, co-founded in 2009 by Cheney, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol and Debra Burlingame, the “<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28212.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">hawkish sister</a> of an American Airlines pilot killed in the September 11 attacks,” was meant to be a <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/keep_america_safe" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">one-stop shop</a> for attacks on President Obama’s foreign policy and spotlighting the founders’ neoconservative friends.Cheney <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6bqsHcmJJA&feature=player_embedded" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">announced her insurgent bid</a> for the seat held by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) on Tuesday. Already a <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/angling-for-the-senate-keep-america-safe-from-liz-cheney/277866/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">great deal of ink</a> has been spilled over her history with the movement and the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/07/17/2313441/liz-cheney-neocons/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">closeness of her views</a> to those of her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. It’s with that announcement in mind that the apparent shuttering of Keep America Safe becomes so curious.The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine places the last version of the Keep America Safe website as <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130630105206/http://www.keepamericasafe.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">June 30, 2013</a>, several weeks prior to Cheney’s announcement, but at a time when buzz was surrounding the chance she’d enter the primary field. Its Twitter account — @KeepAmericaSafe — likewise appears to have had its last tweet around the same time, as the <a href="https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%40KeepAmericaSafe&src=typd" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">last manual retweet</a> of the account was June 26. The group’s Facebook page has also gone missing, but ThinkProgress is currently unable to tell when that page went dark. Even their Ning, a little used social media connection site, has been <a href="http://keepamericasafe.ning.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">taken down</a>.“Keep America Safe will make the case for an unapologetic approach to fighting terrorism around the world, for victory in the wars this country fights, for democracy and human rights, and for a strong American military that is needed in the dangerous world in which we live,” the group’s mission statement read at the time the site went down. “The policies being proposed by the Obama administration are so radical across the board,” Cheney told Politico in 2009 <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28212.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">at the time of the group’s launch</a>. “Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, you want the nation to be strong and so many steps this president is taking are making the nation weaker.”A review of what is recoverable from the organization’s website finds content that lines up clearly that belief, including profiles on the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and a collection of articles written by such prominent neoconservatives as former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, commentator Charles Krauthammer, and former Bush appointee Marc Theissen. Among the articles promoted on June 30 include a full <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-has-a-misguided-faith-in-putin/2013/06/19/11db1de6-d906-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">three</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-the-taliban-is-playing-obama/2013/06/24/27c07038-dcdb-11e2-9218-bc2ac7cd44e2_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">condemning</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-america-sidelined-barely-relevant/2013/06/20/be08cdec-d9cf-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Obama</a> for supposedly being naive (after five years in office) on foreign policy, two <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/meet-new-mullah_736878.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">warning</a> <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/06/economist-explains-17" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">balefully</a> of Iran’s nuclear program, and one promoting the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-report-refutes-senate-panels-criticism-of-agencys-harsh-interrogation-methods/2013/06/26/ed53a908-de8b-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">CIA’s rejection</a> of the Senate’s torture report.Oddly enough, the group’s YouTube account remains active, including videos such as the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxg7LmlEQg&feature=c4-overview&playnext=1&list=TLvsrmEca3rBM" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">attack on Department of Justice attorneys</a> assigned to defend the suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay. That video, in which the lawyers are labeled “The Al Qaeda Seven,” drew a great deal criticism, even from like-minded allies. A <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/us/politics/10lawyers.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">New York Times profile</a> of Keep America Safe from around the time of the video’s release quotes many prominent conservatives who “vehemently criticized Ms. Cheney’s video, and say it violates the American legal principle that even unpopular defendants deserve a lawyer.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a usual ally of Kristol and Cheney, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/03/09/85837/graham-america-safe/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">condemned</a> the group’s smear campaign as “shameful.”At time of publication, ThinkProgress has tried reaching anyone who could explain the group’s vanishing act, but to no avail. While the phone number the group lists on the now defunct website is still active, the calls only went to voice-mail; an email to the media contact person listed has likewise gone unanswered. An attempt to visit Keep America Safe’s offices to discern whether the organization is still active resulted in an unexpected trip to a UPS Store in downtown Washington, DC. Voice-mails left with Kristol and emails sent to Cheney’s campaign and board member Deb Burlingame’s group 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America have not been returned either.<div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 2em; border: 0px; line-height: 24.75px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.15em; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); display: inline;">Tags:</h4> <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; display: inline;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.33em; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block;"><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/tag/liz-cheney/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-radius: 6px; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);">Liz Cheney</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.33em; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block;"><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/tag/neoconservatives/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); border-radius: 6px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Neoconservatives</a></li></ul></div></div><div>--</div><div>site scrubbed except youtube</div><div>
</div><div>Keep America Safe Releases Mini-Documentary The People of Standish WASHINGTON, DC (November 19, 2009) - Today Keep America Safe released the mini-documentary, "The People of Standish. Standish is home to Standish Max, one of the sites being considered by the Obama administration to house the terrorists now being safely detained at Guantanamo Bay. The people of Standish are rallying and speaking out against this administrations ill-considered and dangerous proposal -- but don't take it from us, listen to them.</div><div>
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</div><div>ctr am freedom:  <div>DCRA records list the names of two founding CAF "governors," <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Goldfarb" title="reference on Michael Goldfarb" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Michael Goldfarb</a> and Aaron Harison.Harison, currently CAF's president, <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/harison_aaron" title="reference on previously served" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">previously served</a> as director of communications for the Republican National Committee (RNC). Harison is joined at CAF by <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71099_Page3.html" title="reference on former RNC acting director of communications" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">former RNC acting director of communications</a>, and current CAF research director, Tim Killeen.Harison is also the <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28212.html#ixzz0Tqj4UEV7" title="reference on former executive director" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">former executive director</a> of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Keep_America_Safe" title="reference on Keep America Safe" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Keep America Safe</a>, an operation co-founded in 2009 by Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Kristol" title="reference on William Kristol" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">William Kristol</a>, the founder and editor of the neoconservativeWeekly Standard, is a <a href="http://www.keepamericasafe.com/?page_id=215" title="reference on founding board member" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">founding board member</a> of Keep America Safe. Kristol is currently listed as a <a href="http://americanfreedom.com/staff/" title="reference on board member" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">board member</a> of CAF, and is the former executive director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_for_the_New_American_Century" title="reference on Project for the New American Century" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Project for the New American Century</a> (PNAC), a neocon "think tank" that had strong ties to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute" title="reference on American Enterprise Institute" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a>.Michael Goldfarb, CAF's chairman, has <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/michael-goldfarb" title="reference on reportedly worked" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">reportedly worked</a> as an advisor to Keep America Safe and the militaristic <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Emergency_Committee_for_Israel" title="reference on Emergency Committee for Israel" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Emergency Committee for Israel</a>. (Kristol is also a board member for the Emergency Committee for Israel). Goldfarb is also listed as a <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/tws/aboutus/default.asp#Masthead" title="reference on contributing editor" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">contributing editor</a> to Weekly Standard.In addition, Goldfarb is a <a href="http://orionstrat.com/" title="reference on partner" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">partner</a> in the lobby/PR firm, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Orion_Strategies_LLC" title="reference on Orion Strategies LLC" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Orion Strategies LLC</a>. Not surprisingly, given Goldfarb and Kristol's warmongering predilections, Orion has lobbied on issues of arms sales and foreign relations for very special interests like defense contractors and foreign governments.While these ties may explain some of the content on the WFB, what does any of this have to do with its efforts to defend ALEC by attacking its critics?According to Politico, right-wing financiers Charles and David Koch also <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71099.html" title="reference on employ the services of Orion Strategies" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">employ the services of Orion Strategies</a> and, as CMD <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/07/10904/alec-exposed-koch-connection" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">has documented</a>, Koch Industries and/or the Koch family fortune have helped fund ALEC and numerous ALEC private sector members that help operationalize the brothers' ideological and financial agenda. There is no indication that the Kochs asked WFB to jump to the defense of ALEC. However, the right wing has been howling that the press and progressive groups have been too persuasive in exposing ALEC and in making the case about how ALEC helps make the corporate wish list into law through its members and operations.
=The GOP is abuzz about Liz Cheney's <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/americas-next-top-political-dynasty-the-cheneys/277864/" style="text-decoration: none;">decision</a> to mount a 2014 primary challenge against incumbent Republican Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming. In an item titled "<a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/07/16/old-boy-net-unites-against-liz-cheney-mike-enzi/" style="text-decoration: none;">Old Boy Net United Against Liz Cheney</a>," Jonathan Tobin describes the daughter of old boy Dick Cheney as "widely acknowledged to be among the party's brightest stars," a dubious characterization. He goes on:
<blockquote style="margin: 5px 0px 10px; line-height: 23.2px; padding: 15px !important;">Why are so many leading Republicans lining up against Cheney? They are saying that they are opposing her bid because they don't like divisive Republican primaries that weaken the party and the eventual winner against the Democrats. But this is bunk. Wyoming is so deep red it's almost impossible to imagine the scenario in which a GOP primary, no matter how nasty, would lead to a Democratic win. Rather, what they really seem to be mad about is a breach of manners. If Enzi were to disappear from the Senate, few in Washington would even notice, let alone miss him, while Cheney would be a strong asset for a party that needs talented members able to stand up to President Obama and the Democrats as well as strengthening the party's appeal to women. But many in the establishment are so offended by her not waiting her turn until Enzi left on his own steam that they are prepared to stand by him. 

Even more interestingly, Senator Rand Paul, who is usually to be found among those least likely to join the go-along-to-get-along crowd, is also backing Enzi, which may have more to do with his disagreement with Cheney's sensible views on foreign policy than any affection for the incumbent. 
</blockquote>One aspect of that analysis is accurate: Liz Cheney's foreign-policy views, which would only be considered "sensible" at a magazine that still regards the Iraq War as a prudent undertaking, explain a great deal of the opposition to her. Most Americans understand that investing <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314" style="text-decoration: none;">trillions of dollars</a> and thousands of American lives in Iraq was a historic blunder. Tea Party types don't want to defend the conflict, but neither are they comfortable fully confronting the truth about Team Bush's folly or the toll it has taken on the GOP's reputation for competence in foreign policy. 
Enzi supported the Iraq War too, and it may be irrational that his challenger is more tied, in the public mind, to the invasion. But being the offspring of a vice president has consequences. On one hand, you enjoy a base of donors and a degree of name recognition far beyond what individual merit would've brought. On the other hand, you're tied to the family brand. Republicans aren't thrilled about this primary challenge in part because of the nature of the Cheney brand: It is understandably associated in the minds of many Americans with misleading the nation into a disastrous war, an official program of illegal torture, a proclivity for Machiavellian power grabs, and a relationship with Halliburton that seemed like cronyism. There is, as well, the public's distaste for political dynasties, due to the reasonable suspicion that the younger members wouldn't be where they are without inside-the-Beltway nepotism, and the carpetbagger vibe of her brief residence in the state prior to declaring her run.
It is fair to judge Liz Cheney based on the family brand? Personally, I try not to hold the illegal, immoral acts of a father against his son or daughter unless he or she implicates herself in the objectionable positions.Liz Cheney hasn't just embraced the objectionable actions and positions of neoconservative Republicans. She has also earned an independent reputation as someone who participates in weak, laughable, and even scurrilous attacks on ideological opponents that can only cast doubt on her judgment and moral character. The weak, laughable attacks are often aimed at Obama, of whom I am often critical. But even people who hold Obama in low esteem can't help but feel embarrassed on behalf of commentators who discredit themselves by making absurd <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/05/28/hannity-and-liz-cheney-agree-obama-is-afraid-to/194246" style="text-decoration: none;">claims</a> like, "He's unwilling to go after the terrorists that are threatening the nation." To deny Obama's willingness to go after terrorists is to be deeply ignorant, ideologically blinkered, or a liar. None of those qualities is desirable in an aspiring U.S. senator.
On another occasion, Cheney said of Obama, "He's working to preemptively disarm America while rogue states like North Korea and Iran build nuclear weapons capabilities and stockpiles." Under Obama, the U.S. spends orders of magnitude more on defense than any other country; it maintains a nuclear stockpile large enough to obliterate whole continents if not the earth itself; and it has invested billions in a fleet of armed drones that increases our weapons capabilities. Obama's policy is, in other words, keeping us armed to the teeth. I understand that convention holds that it's unfair to begrudge pundits when they go on Fox News and utter inane talking points so far beyond exaggeration that they're just lies, but this is especially inane.  
Cheney's low regard for civil liberties bothers me most. Others on the right are most bothered by her work for Keep America Safe. As the New York Timesreported in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/us/politics/10lawyers.html" style="text-decoration: none;">a 2010 article about its efforts</a>: 
<blockquote style="margin: 5px 0px 10px; line-height: 23.2px; padding: 15px !important;">A conservative advocacy organization in Washington, <a href="http://www.keepamericasafe.com/" title="http://www.keepamericasafe.com/organization site" style="text-decoration: none;">Keep America Safe</a>, kicked up a storm last week when it <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxg7LmlEQg&feature=player_embedded" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxg7LmlEQg&feature=player_embeddedvideo" style="text-decoration: none;">released a video</a> that questioned the loyalty of Justice Department lawyers who worked in the past on behalf of detained terrorism suspects.But beyond the expected liberal outrage, the tactics of the group, which is run by <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/liz_cheney/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Liz Cheney." class="meta-per" style="text-decoration: none;">Liz Cheney</a>, the daughter of the former vice president, have also split the tightly knit world of conservative legal scholars. Many conservatives, including members of the Federalist Society, the quarter-century-old policy group devoted to conservative and libertarian legal ideals, have vehemently criticized Ms. Cheney's video, and say it violates the American legal principle that even unpopular defendants deserve a lawyer."There's something truly bizarre about this," said Richard A. Epstein, a<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_chicago/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the University of Chicago." class="meta-org" style="text-decoration: none;">University of Chicago</a> law professor and a revered figure among many members of the society. "Liz Cheney is a former student of mine -- I don't know what moves her on this thing," he said.On Sunday, Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/brookings_institution/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Brookings Institution" class="meta-org" style="text-decoration: none;">Brookings Institution</a>, issued a joint <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/0307_guantanamo_statement.aspx" title="Text of the letter" style="text-decoration: none;">letter</a> criticizing the "shameful series of attacks" on government lawyers, which it said were "unjust to the individuals in question and destructive of any attempt to build lasting mechanisms for counterterrorism adjudications." The letter was signed by a Who's Who of former Republican administration officials and conservative legal figures, including <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/kenneth_w_starr/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Kenneth W. Starr." class="meta-per" style="text-decoration: none;">Kenneth W. Starr</a>, the former special prosecutor, and Charles D. Stimson, who resigned from the second Bush administration after suggesting that businesses might think twice before hiring law firms that had represented detainees. Other Bush administration figures who signed include Peter D. Keisler, a former acting attorney general, and Larry D. Thompson, a former deputy attorney general.The letter cited "the American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients," including the defense by <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/john_adams_1735_1826/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about John Adams." class="meta-per" style="text-decoration: none;">John Adams</a> of British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre, and noted that some detainee advocates, who worked pro bono, have made arguments that <a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-184.pdf" title="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-184.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">swayed the Supreme Court</a>. Ms. Cheney's video referred to the lawyers as the "Al Qaeda Seven," and accused the Justice Department of concealing their names, which were later revealed by <a href="http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/03/exclusive-unknown-doj-lawyers-identified" title="Fox News video" style="text-decoration: none;">Fox News</a>.</blockquote>Tobin might have been less puzzled by the opposition to Cheney's candidacy if he'd recalled how many people lost respect for her enough to publicly declare her approach to advocacy "shameful." In Tobin's defense, there are probably some Republican operatives who are upset that she didn't "wait her turn." Politicos are often overly invested in dues paying, obsess over perceived slights, fetishize tribal loyalty, and exhibit entitlement on a scale that used to be considered sinful. The Republicans who oppose Cheney for those reasons should get over themselves. They should oppose her based on the dearth of what she has to offer, and the many discrediting statements, actions, and policy stances that call her values, character, and judgment into question. This is someone who has a history of mistaken foreign-policy judgments, an inability to make sophisticated critiques of ideological opponents, and a bad habit of behaving dishonorably toward rivals. 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