Newt Gingrich: "McCarthyist" Obama Wants To "Put Terrorists On Welfare"
11 May 2009
Submitted by Anisa McClain
Gingrich claimed that the former firm of Attorney General Eric Holder had represented 17 alleged terrorists on a pro-bono basis. "For no fee," he added, for good measure. "It is the largest single thing they were doing for free, defending Yemenis."
Firms like Holder's Covington & Burling, of course, have represented alleged terrorist under the notion that everyone deserves a legal defense, not out of some shared ideology or political sympathies. But context and clarification weren't Gingrich's order of business on Sunday.
[Gingrich declared] that the president was trying to "put alleged terrorists on welfare and have you pay for them and me pay for them so they get to be integrated into American society."
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