Detainees wouldn’t need top lawyers if White House respected civil liberties
Fox News
by Susan Estrich
01/17/07
Poor Cully Stimson. Hypocrites have been having a field day at his expense. He’s given everybody — from editorialists to the Attorney General, not to mention the law school deans and establishment bar types — an opportunity to feel good about their own virtue, without addressing the real issues that his comments raise. What could be easier than denouncing clueless Cully? In case you missed it, Charles ‘Cully’ Stimson is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs who in a radio interview said out loud what a lot of people actually think: that the detainees at Guantanamo, some of whom have been held for years without charges filed against them, don’t deserve to be represented by the best law firms in America. He even suggested that the firms’ other clients should put pressure on them to choose between their ‘pro bono’ clients and their paying ones...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244321,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Susan+Estrich
by Susan Estrich
01/17/07
Poor Cully Stimson. Hypocrites have been having a field day at his expense. He’s given everybody — from editorialists to the Attorney General, not to mention the law school deans and establishment bar types — an opportunity to feel good about their own virtue, without addressing the real issues that his comments raise. What could be easier than denouncing clueless Cully? In case you missed it, Charles ‘Cully’ Stimson is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs who in a radio interview said out loud what a lot of people actually think: that the detainees at Guantanamo, some of whom have been held for years without charges filed against them, don’t deserve to be represented by the best law firms in America. He even suggested that the firms’ other clients should put pressure on them to choose between their ‘pro bono’ clients and their paying ones...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244321,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Susan+Estrich
rudkla - 19. Jan, 15:42
