A friend shared with me Glenn Greenwald’s post on Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol’s sickening new ad campaign.

Don your Hazmat suit, gloves, helmet and goggles and watch it here.

In the ad, they describe Eric Holder’s Department of Justice as the “Department of Jihad.” Reason? The DOJ  employs nine lawyers who previously represented Guantanamo detainees (including Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, who successfully represented the Guantanamo-plaintiffs in the 2006 Hamdan case before the U.S. Supreme Court).

Yes — brilliant, principled lawyers who did the right thing by upholding the American Constitution and defending the least among us.

“The ad darkly asks of these lawyers: “whose values do they share?,” and labels 7 of those unidentified DOJ lawyers “The Al Qaeda 7,” Greenwald writes.

The values they share? American ones, without a doubt.

Greenwald continues, brilliantly:

We all have a tendency to look back on shameful events in our nation’s history — slavery, the internment of Japanese-Americans, the McCarthyite witch hunts — and like to believe that we would have been on the right side of those conflicts and would have vigorously opposed those responsible for the wrongs.  Here we have real, live, contemporary McCarthyites in our midst — Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol — launching a repulsive smear campaign, and we’ll see what the reaction is and how they’re treated by our political and media elites.

Too often, poison like this goes unremarked. Time to jump into the blogosphere (you do have your Hazmat suit on still, right?)  and make yourself known.