Liz Cheney compared to Joe McCarthy by conservatives with her attacks on the Dept. of Justice

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice-President Cheney, recently unleashed another attack in a long campaign against the Obama administration that has many conservatives connecting her to Joe McCarthy, one of the most vicious political scoundrels of the twentieth century.

Cheney's political fear monger group "Keep America Safe" just released an ad suggesting that certain Justice Department officials are terrorist sympathizers for having represented detainees against illegal treatment by the Bush's administration. The ad brands them as the "Al-Qaeda 7”; some of whom who had served during the Bush administration.

On this subject The Huffington Post interviewed conservative Claremont Institute fellow Paul Mirengoff, who blogged that Cheney’s group’s attack was "vicious" and "unfounded."  He said that her group’s comments were potentially worse than former Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s notorious anti-communist crusades.

Mirengoff continued that it could be worse than some of the assertions made by McCarthy, because at least McCarthy was correct in pinpointing that a few individuals had communist sympathies. Mirengoff said it is just baseless to suggest that these DoJ officials share al Qaeda values.

The comparison to McCarthy, a former Republican senator who led a series of witch hunts against members of Congress purportedly for being sympathizers of Soviet communism was an era that many have found to be shameful.

In light of all the negative feedback she is receiving from conservatives, Cheney shows no signs of retracting from those heinous comparisons.