Scott Brown to Joe Biden: Don’t lecture me on military law

The week is not starting off on a good note for the VP. First, former Veep Dick Cheney yesterday blasted various Obama admin counterterrorism arguments Biden has been making on the past couple of weeks on issues like Iraq and the so-called “Christmas Day bomber,” and now, Biden has Senator Scott Brown (R-MA!) to contend with (via Memeorandum):

Sen. Scott Brown thinks Vice President Joe Biden was β€œoff base” when he suggested Sunday that the Massachusetts Republican get his facts straight on the legal procedures for military tribunals.

β€œIt was insulting,” said Brown, who frequently jabbed the administration during his Senate campaign for giving suspected terrorists legal representation.

On CBS’s β€œFace the Nation” last weekend, Biden shot back that he doesn’t β€œknow whether the new senator from Massachusetts understands: When you get tried in a military tribunal, you get a lawyer, too.”

β€œHe’s trying to give me a lesson on military law, and I didn’t think it was appropriate,” Brown told POLITICO. β€œAnd I thought he was off base when it comes to explaining to the American people that somehow I need a lesson on whether people get attorneys β€” of course they get attorneys. There’s a difference as to what type of attorney they’re going to get and when they’re going to get that attorney, and how are they treated, and what rights do they, in fact, get.”

Brown said he is particularly incensed by Biden’s remarks because he’s served in the Massachusetts Army National Guard for more than 30 years and is currently the Guard’s top defense attorney in New England.

β€œI know the military rules and regulations and procedures from A to Z,” Brown said.

I suspect he knows them much better than our current Commander in Chief, who is allegedly a “Constitutional law expert” of sorts.

Biden really should get back to things he understands better, oh, like being the “stimulus czar.” Or something. 8-|

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