So this new McCarthyite witch hunt...

[Cain]

No no no, Marc Thiessen explained this on the Daily Show, Adams was defending people charged with a crime, whereas detainees in Guantanamo are being held as enemy combatants in an ongoing war against the USA.  You wouldn't let a Waffen SS POW out on the basis of haebus corpus now, would you?  So why should these guys be any different?

(for the purposes of this argument, you must ignore the fact that terrorists are not soldiers and should be tried in civilian courts, that most people in Guantanamo were never even caught on a battlefield and thus the claims that they are Al-Qaeda suspects are dubious and that the VAST majority of those who were defended by these lawyers were in fact innocent and have not been involved in terrorism before or since their time at Camp Xray. In short, ignore reality).

[LMNO]

You're frighteningly good at making the argument sound reasonable, before the parenthesis.

[Cain]

Thiessen is a trained sophist.  Presumably his job as Bush's speechwriter didn't actually give him much to do at the office, so he could hone his skills at making indefinite detention of probably innocent people (in most cases) without due process sound reasonable instead.  He's also been made an Ascended Columnist at the WaPo now by order of Fred Hiatt, so expect to hear more glib arguments along these lines in the near future.