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You said WHAT?!

Tuesday 23 January 2007 at 10:10 pm
This Saturday past, the Pentagon took a major leap sideways when it had to distance itself from one of its senior officials, one Charles "Cully" Stimson. Stimson went on the record during a radio interview as saying that US companies should boycott legal firms that employ lawyers who represent Guantanamo Bay detainees that are US citizens. He then went on to recite a list of a dozen legal firms that should be boycotted. When last I checked, if you were a US citizen you had the right to legal representation under the Sixth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Lieutenant Colonel Brian Maka, spokesman for the Pentagon, then went on the record by stating that Stimson spoke for himself only, and his views do not reflect those of the Bush regeime. One Neal Sonnett, the president of the American Judicature Society (a public nonpartisan society of judges and practitioners of law) called this an act of intimidation.

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Do you have a source for the information that this was in relation to US citizens being detained at Guantanamo? The article only says detainees and doesn’t mention that they are citizens. I’d be very interested if there are in fact a dozen different legal firms all representing US Citizens at Guantanamo… the popular conception of it remains that the prisoners there were captured “on the battlefield” in Afghanistan, and I have been working to counter that in some areas by citing the information about them being captured in neighboring countries for bounties. A large number of US citizens being held there would further erode that perception, I think, if it could be verified.

Jarandhel (URL) - 24 01 07 - 11:59 - Reply to comment?

I’ve go an article or two in the memory logs that I haven’t uploaded yet. One of them was a Muslim chaplain in the US Army who ministered to the Muslims at Gitmo but when he started complaining through channels about their mistreatment they threw him in as a sympathizer. I’ll dig it out and post a reference tonight.

There is another story floating around the news wires about a Muslim college student who was nabbed on campus back in 2004 and released in 2006 in a different country without a passport.

The Doctor (URL) - 25 01 07 - 08:20 - Reply to comment?

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