Diary of a Guantanamo attorney
In These Times
by H. Candace Gorman
01/17/06
I fell into the world of Guantanamo in October 2005. The Chicago Council of Lawyers had organized a luncheon discussion on the legal issues surrounding the infamous detention facility at the U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba. I received an e-mail thanking me for my attendance (I should have gone but didn’t) and asking for volunteers to represent the nearly 200 known unrepresented prisoners at the base. I had assumed that I was well-informed about our criminal president and his assault on the rule of law; it never occurred to me that four years after being captured (and more than one year after the Supreme Court affirmed their right to hearing and counsel) individuals were still being held without legal representation. I replied to the e-mail, offering my services...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2966/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
by H. Candace Gorman
01/17/06
I fell into the world of Guantanamo in October 2005. The Chicago Council of Lawyers had organized a luncheon discussion on the legal issues surrounding the infamous detention facility at the U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba. I received an e-mail thanking me for my attendance (I should have gone but didn’t) and asking for volunteers to represent the nearly 200 known unrepresented prisoners at the base. I had assumed that I was well-informed about our criminal president and his assault on the rule of law; it never occurred to me that four years after being captured (and more than one year after the Supreme Court affirmed their right to hearing and counsel) individuals were still being held without legal representation. I replied to the e-mail, offering my services...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2966/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
rudkla - 17. Jan, 15:03
