If any further proof were needed that Liz Cheney is a chip off the old block of her father, then have a look at this video that her Keep America Safe front organisation is running. Using tactics from the McCarthy "Red scare" era, the video seeks to smear the US Department of Justice as "Department of Jihad" and lawyers who defended Guantanamo detainees as the "al-Qaida 7" – a nice touch there. In another page taken from the Joe McCarthy playbook, the video also suggests a cover-up to supress the names of the lawyers.
Liz Cheney isn't alone in this dangerous word-association, which would equate a lawyer defending a murderer with the act of murder itself. As Spencer Ackerman points out, two Republican senators have been trying the same thing, while the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol is also on the board of Keep America Safe and whose publication prints articles denouncing defence lawyers for defending their clients as the law intended.~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/mar/05/liz-cheney-al-qaida-justice