No John Adams (Weekly Standard Defends Liz and KAS)

One of the main points that Liz Cheney and Keep America Safe critics have been using in their attacks on the "Al Qaeda 7" video is that John Adams represented British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.  Well Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard has a phenomenal piece explaining why these two similar situations seperated by over 200 years of history, are actually very dissimilar when the facts are actually taken into account: 

The conservative critics argue that the lawyers’ work on behalf of detainees is a strictly noble pursuit. They point to John Adams’ representation of British soldiers after the Boston massacre as evidence that the lawyers are simply the heirs of a longstanding and honorable legal process. The comparison is absurd for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that Adams did not represent America’s enemies during an actual war, as the lawyers in question have.
But the Times article also ends with this:

David Remes, a lawyer who represents 18 detainees, said in a telephone interview from Guantánamo that the deeper point of the attack on the lawyers was political.

The goal, Mr. Remes suggested, “was to make the Obama administration and the Justice Department even more gun-shy than they are on Guantánamo issues.”

What do the conservative lawyers think of David Remes?

He is no John Adams.

Please go read the rest of the piece, the plot thickens, trust me.

-rj