Does a terrorist, a child molester, or a mass murderer deserve an open trial? What if, through some technicality, or through an OJ type runaway jury, someone truly dangerous is set free? Are we to risk open trials for those in Guantanamo? Many Americans can feel their blood pressure rise as lawyers rise to the defense of those whose aim is to kill us all. Some lawyers don't seem to mind the company they keep. Marc Thiessen spoke for many as he was subjected to a withering interview by comedian Jon Stewart. He was reacting to a Department of Justice lawyer who had defended someone who can best be defined as a terrorist.

Some of these people have very radical views. Jennifer Daskal is one of these lawyers who has been raised questions about. She has written that any terrorist who is not charged with a crime, even though they're being held as lawful combatants, should be released from Guantanamo and set free -- even though we know they may go out and kill American soldiers.

Those who now boast of having voted for McCain ("Don't blame me") point to radicals who seem to have seized the very government that should be protecting us. How do these people see the world? One would have been willing to let genocide mastermind, Nazi Adolf Eichmann, go free.

...they deserve to have some adjudication of their cases. And there's a fear that if you release them that they'll go back and fight again against us. And that may have already happened. But balance that against what it's doing to our reputation throughout the world and whether it's enhancing recruiting for people to join al-Qaeda and other organizations and want to do bad things to the United States of America.

... we've got to adjudicate these people's cases, and that means that if it means releasing some of them, you'll have to release them. Look, even Adolf Eichmann got a trial. I mean, there--we are signatories to numerous agreements on human rights, against torture, universal declaration on human rights...

The leftist radical, the one with so much sympathy for every bad guy from terrorists to Nazis was, of course, John McCain speaking in 2005.

Sometimes being an American is not easy. The banter about how fair trials are too costly or too risky would have been familiar to Adolf Eichmann. Let's indeed be careful of the company we keep.

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