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| DOD official aggravates many by naming/blaming US law firms defending Guantanameros | |
| 2007-01-13 | |
| 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..."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."...Five hundred U.S. lawyers, ranging from solo practitioners to partners in major national law firms, have filed unlawful-detention lawsuits on behalf of Guantanamo detainees. A serving of the usual rationalizations follows.
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| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #12 I disagree. Stimson was wrong and should be disciplined for this. The lawyers are doing their jobs, and most of them are honorable people who believe in the law. Nope. You're working without a net on this one. The Lawyers and their firms have a choice, they can choose to decline the terrorists as clients. They don't, that tells me everything I need to know. |
| Posted by: Chuck Darwin 2007-01-13 23:18 |
| #11 There are those who combine being good and principled people with being good lawyers -- I have the good fortune to have some of them as friends. No doubt the profession has about the same ratio of saints to scoundrels as do car mechanics or accountants or dungeons & dragons gamesmasters, being fields requiring arcane knowledge applied to a specific situation by a (hopefully) intelligent mind. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-13 22:56 |
| #10 In my lifetime I have had to deal with exactly four lawyers for various reasons. After each encounter I had the same feeling when I used to employ the services of whores: I felt dirty, I was sure I paid too much, and I definately know I did something wrong but not entirely illegal. I truely think that they are a necessary evil but they could conduct their case without besmirching the U.S. or it's leaders. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2007-01-13 21:30 |
| #9 Would be simpler if we didn't take prisoners. |
| Posted by: RWV 2007-01-13 21:05 |
| #8 Broadhead - That's a waste of perfectly good Shark Bait! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-01-13 19:30 |
| #7 I advocate that in order to avoid this type of problem in future we drain all battlefield combatants of their info and then summarily execute them (or they just disappear). Take the prison out of Gitmo and move it to Al Anbar, plenty of realestate to bury corpses and less logistics $$$ in transport. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-01-13 18:56 |
| #6 First of all, there is no "unlawful detention". These people are not prisoners of war. They are terrorists caught in the act. They have no status under the Geneva Conventions. Theirs is not a "lawful" behavior. They can be held as long as the President wishes. He can even order them killed, without committing a crime. Lawyers pushing an "unlawful detention" agenda are doing nothing but running up the government's legal bill for no purpose other than posturing. Personally, I would shoot them, but then I feel that way about 80% of the lawyers in this nation (hear that, Mike Nifong?). |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-01-13 18:20 |
| #5 If their work is 'honorable" it can stand the light of day. The legal "profession" has a huge burden to prove it's not working against the constitution and the rule of law and justice. Just one more thing to hold against the "profession" on top of the honest living wage jobs that have stolen from Amreican workers, the expensive medical system we have in this country and, the peversion of our political system due to the death lock they have on Congress and their funding of left wing anti american political groups. Why do we have and need more lawyers than Doctors in this country? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-01-13 17:06 |
| #4 Honorable Lawyer is an oxymoron. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2007-01-13 16:01 |
| #3 these unlawful combatants are not US citizens. If they wish to do pro bono work, there's plenty to be had, for US citizens. I'd guess a) they expect a big Federal payday if they get the courts to rule in their favor (regardless of the danger they place US citizens in with the release of the Gitmo pond scum); and b) their politics have influenced their enthusiasm to embarass Bush. Either way, let them stand up to public scrutiny rather than hiding behind their press releases. I say F*ck em. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-13 13:16 |
| #2 if it is honorable - there should be no shame in naming them. The DOD isn't "going after them", they are just asking them to be held accountable for their beliefs and actions. I don't understand why that is bad. |
| Posted by: Glomoque Chavirt4829 2007-01-13 12:42 |
| #1 DOD official aggravates and embareasses the there I fixed it. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-01-13 12:06 |