The funny thing is that if Holder was upfront about hiring these attorneys to the terrorists and identified where in the Justice Dept they would serve,then there would've been no need for Cheney to do her own personal investigation and "out" them.
But why was Holder and the Obama Justice Dept so opague about this ? Could it be that the people of the country would not approve of these hirings? I think so .
Or perhaps Holder was planning on using them in the cases of the GITMO detainees even though their work on the case as representatives of the government would be a clear conflict of interest that by all right would be reason for recusal.
Re Joe McCarthy.. For years there was a growing sentiment that the Rosenbergs were railroaded and in fact innocent. But subsequent proof including testimony by Nikita Khrushchev and co conspirator Morton Sobel revealed that indeed Julius Rosenberg was instrumental in passing nuclear and other secrets to the Soviets.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep...ws/OE-RADOSH17
I don't know if McCarthy exaggerated the threat ;but the threat he pointed out was indeed real.