IT'S ABOUT TIME – AT 7:12 P.M. ET:  It's about time someone exposed the Center for Constitutional Rights for exactly what it is – an old red group passing itself off as a "civil liberties" organization.  Of course, the mainstream media has nothing to say.

Commentary magazine does:

There is appropriate horror being expressed today all over the blogosphere about the statement released by the radical leftist group called the Center for Constitutional Rights on the verdict in the Ghailani trial: “CCR questions the ability of anyone who is Muslim to receive a truly fair trial in any American judicial forum post-9/11,” it says. “However, on balance the Ghailani verdict shows that federal criminal trials are far superior to military commissions for the simple yet fundamental reason that they prohibit evidence obtained by torture. If anyone is unsatisfied with Ghailani’s acquittal on 284 counts, they should blame the CIA agents who tortured him.”

The astounding and vicious vulgarity of the sentiments expressed here — no Muslim can get a fair trial, anyone dissatisfied with the fact that a man who confessed to his role in the murder of 224 people has been acquitted of those killings should be more upset that the person who killed those people was treated roughly by agents of the U.S. government — tells you everything you need to know about the Center for Constitutional Rights. Atop a CCR website posting by a member of the organization’s board denouncing the guilty verdict and sentencing of Lynne Stewart, a lawyer who served as a courier for terrorist messages sent through her from her imprisoned client to his network, is a quote from Karl Marx: “At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology.” That same item described Stewart’s client, the “blind sheikh” Abdel Rahman, as “was the leading oppositionist to the U.S.-sponsored Mubarak dictatorship in Egypt,” whereas in fact what he did was oversee the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.

COMMENT:  Over the years, it's been impossible to get a straight story about groups like this from the mainstream media.  Terms like "anti-war" group, "peace group," "liberal group," and the like, are often euphemisms for far worse.  How many times, for example, have you heard Code Pink described as an "anti-war" organization, which it clearly is not.  It's a viciously anti-American group led by hard leftists. 

The mainstream media wonders why it's lost credibility.  One reason is its refusal to confront the reality of some of these organizations, and tell us exactly who they are.  Of course, their fear is that they'll be accused of "McCarthyism," the standard, generic charge issued daily by the far left.  Some spine, people, some spine.

November 18, 2010