Greedy Trial Lawyer
Defense Department Turns Guns On Defense Attorneys
Category: In Your Face
They say dog owners begin to look like their dogs. The Bush Administration is beginning to look like its enemies.
Official calls for boycott of law firms representing detainees
A Defense Department official has stirred up a maelstrom in the American legal community by calling on U.S. corporations to boycott law firms whose attorneys represent suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Speaking to a morning radio talk show Thursday, Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, rattled off a list of some of the most prestigious law firms in the nation.
Each apparently has attorneys providing pro bono, or no-charge, legal representation to captives at the U.S. Navy base, where the Bush administration is holding some 395 men and teens as so-called enemy combatants.
"I think quite honestly when corporate CEOs see that those firms are representing the very terrorists that hit their bottom line in 2001," he said, "those CEOs are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms.
"It's shocking," said Stimson, 43, a former federal attorney and Navy lawyer. "The major law firms in this country . . . are out there representing detainees."
It's shocking that any American government official, former federal lawyer and Navy lawyer would be out there making these threats. It is obvious the greatest threat to America comes from within and from an Administration that ignores the Constitution and our system of justice.
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