Posted on 08/20/2009 7:08:37 PM PDT by PghBaldy
Justice Dept. Looking Into Whether Attorneys Broke Law at Guantanamo - The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investigation... The photos were taken by researchers hired by the John Adams Project, a joint effort of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, to support military counsel at Guantanamo Bay, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry. It was unclear whether the Justice Department is also examining those organizations.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well..well..well. One of the scumbag lawyers involved in this also represented the Al Qaeda terrorist that plotted to kill Bush.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/27/national/a012409D74.DTL
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“Defense lawyer Joshua Dratel said he will appeal the sentence. Dratel said he hoped that Abu Ali’s statement did not persuade the judge to impose a life sentence.”
What is it with these leftists and liberals? They are always on the side of the enemies of this country!
Pathetic!
Holder has to decide by Monday whether or not he will bring charges against the people who interrogated Gitmo prisoners. So by Tuesday we’ll know for sure just how doomed we are.
http://www.chicagoclout.com/weblog/archives/2008/08/more_of_mayor_daleys_mbe_in_ac.html
Shortly before Daley was re-elected in 1999, Falcon said, she met with Sorich and Suzanne Kim, a city official who led a Korean-American group of precinct workers. At the City Hall meeting in the mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, where Sorich worked, Falcon said Sorich asked the women to deploy their troops to the 39th Ward on the Far North Side for Daley.
Falcon’s group consisted of about 30 Asian-Americans, almost all of them city workers, she said.
She would shut the door of her office, Falcon said, when she asked workers in her departments to campaign during their time off the job for the mayor and candidates he endorsed. “I would ask them to knock on doors” on weekends to ask people to vote for Daley, said Falcon, who was born in the Philippines.
When Rahm Emanuel was running successfully for the Democratic congressional nomination, she again answered the call from Sorich: “They needed some Asians to be at a rally that the Korean-American group held, if I could bring some Filipinos there.”
Falcon made clear that her group and others sometimes worked for politicians that they did not even like. Falcon said she and Kim grudgingly agreed to commit their forces to help re-elect Ald. Patrick Levar (45th) “because Mr. Sorich asked us.”
Kim, now an assistant commissioner in the Water Management Department, did not return calls seeking comment Wednesday.
(snip)"...Robert Sorich, Mayor Richard M. Daley's former patronage chief, showed no emotion as U.S. District Judge David H. Coar delivered a harsh tongue-lashing. "The offense is corruption -- corruption with a capital C," Coar said. "For people to owe their jobs to political advancement rather than performance on the job stinks. "I don't give a hoot whether this been going on for 200 years. It still stinks." (snip)Sorich and his lawyers believe the feds overreached, turning what had been a civil violation -- political hiring --- into a criminal offense.
"I think chasing after Mayor Daley on patronage hiring on some novel theory is a witch hunt," Durkin said.
http://images.google.com.jm/imgres?imgurl=http://llnw.image.cbslocal.com/0/2006/07/07/75x56/images_sizedimage_187221415.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cbs2chicago.com/search/default.aspx%3F__LOGIC%3D1311%26section%3DNews%26SearchString%3DThomas%2BDurkin&usg=__-9HCU-vEF0I4WXyBq_shQsIeYgI=&h=56&w=75&sz=4&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=Xm4JA8v7KTK0pM:&tbnh=53&tbnw=71&prev=/images%3Fq%3DThomas%2BAnthony%2BDurkin%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
Link for above.
3 Years, 10 Months For Former Top Daley Aide
Robert Sorich Was Convicted In Hiring Scheme
And we are suppose to believe that Obama(being raised in the sewer of Chicago mob politics) is clean as the driven snow. (eye roll)
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9/11 trial will test Boise attorneys - Defense team members David Nevin and Scott McKay will be ‘making sure the government plays by the rules’ in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Idaho Statesman, The (Boise, ID) - Sunday, April 20, 2008
Author: Dan Popkey
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As Idaho’s most famous defense lawyer, David Nevin is no stranger to unpopular causes. But his decision to defend the man the government says planned the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, puts him in a league of his own.
“In terms of sheer numbers of people killed, wounded and traumatized and the added terror element, nothing compares to 9/11 in the annals of history,” said former U.S. Attorney for Idaho Betty Richardson.
Nevin and his partner, Scott McKay, have volunteered to help military lawyers represent Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the most important detainee of 300 suspects held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. His defense is the top priority of the ACLU’s John Adams Project, which is raising money and finding lawyers to help represent the detainees.
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Until now, Nevin had declined comment. But he agreed to talk to the Statesman about one thing: His motive for agreeing to defend Mohammed.
Now in Detroit trying a case with celebrity lawyer and Ruby Ridge co-counsel Gerry Spence, Nevin said he’s obligated to defend constitutional principles, including the presumption of innocence for those accused of the most horrific of crimes.
“You can’t have a justice system that is really fair and works unless you’re willing to provide a defense for everyone,” he said.
“I don’t know what the government can prove about what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed did or did not do. I’ve heard the rumors; I’ve seen the newspaper stories. But that’s different. You cannot say that if the government makes really, really bad allegations against someone, then no one should step forward. That leads to a justice system that really doesn’t work when it needs to work.”
McKay declined to comment. But Matthews, who knows both men well, said, “He’s brilliant. I think he feels the same way that David does.”
McKay and Nevin will be working with Navy Reserve Capt. Prescott Prince, the lead defense lawyer in the 9/11 case. Prince and Nevin share a similar temperament: They’re both soft-spoken with a record of representing unpopular defendants.
Nevin, 58, graduated from the University of Idaho Law School in 1978. His career is marked by a string of celebrated defenses, from neo-Nazis to Idaho’s worst environmental criminal, from business titans to a mother who helped her 14-year-old buy a pistol he used to kill a policeman.
A 2004 terrorism trial prepared Nevin and McKay for the new case. They represented Sami al-Hussayen, a University of Idaho graduate student and Saudi national charged with three terrorism-related offenses. Despite a rush to judgment by Gov. Dirk Kempthorne and University President Bob Hoover - who called a press conference to say he felt betrayed - a Boise jury acquitted al-Hussayen.
But the case that first made Nevin famous was Ruby Ridge, when his client, Kevin Harris, was accused of murdering a deputy U.S. marshal at the end of a North Idaho standoff. Harris was cleared of all charges by a federal jury in Boise after a 60-day trial. Randy Weaver, represented by Spence, was acquitted of murder and conspiracy but convicted of lesser charges.
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Ah shucks-n-golly!
Have put your posts on the CHicago Crime repository thread...to keep all the information in one place.
Great research!
IIRC there are more dots to connect there.
Correction: “GIMO”=GITMO
hmmmm...interesting. Ruby Ridge? Sounds like this Idaho guy just wanted to get in on high profile cases before he started defending AQ terrorists full time. These lawyers involved in getting these terrorists off and out of Gitmo are the lowest of the low imho. They are traitors to their country and justice. It’s all political to them.
"...Tom Durkin, the Chicago attorney—he defended Matt Hale, the self-proclaimed Pontifex Maximus of the World Church of the Creator—said that he “wouldn’t have missed this party for the world.” Over the past four years, Durkin has made seven trips to Guantánamo. Initially, he was hesitant to get involved with the defense project, which was assembled by the A.C.L.U. He recalled, “I said to them, ‘Let me speak to my managing partner and get back to you.’ ” He was referring to his wife, Janis Roberts, who stood beside him. “We have six kids who had to eat and go to college,” she pointed out. “He said, ‘I want to do this.’ And, in hindsight, I know we did the right thing.” Several of Durkin’s clients, including a Sudanese detainee named Walid Ali, have refused to speak to him. In the spring of 2007, Durkin travelled to Khartoum, met with Ali’s family, and obtained a letter—from the Sudanese government to Condoleezza Rice—that apparently helped to secure his release. Ali spoke to him then. Around 9 P.M., Romero clanged a fork against a glass. He proposed a toast: “To a moment—a moment—where we can stop and celebrate, even though I know our hearts are going to be broken someday soon.” (Sure enough, within a week Romero was excoriating Obama for having “reneged” on his promise to “reform the abuse of state secrets.”)..."
"...The latest gossip was that, on the night Obama was elected, someone at the base had started a conga line at two in the morning, pissing off the military prosecutors. Someone speculated that it was members of “the Ramzi Binalshibh crew.” (They have denied the allegation.) Earlier, Larry Cox, the executive director of Amnesty International USA, had spoken. He said, “This is a Walt Whitman moment where we can celebrate ourselves, but I think we’re also here to remember some of the nonlawyers in the fight.” He went on, “There are more people in this room than there were at some of these protests. Where were you all?” Somebody shouted, “In Gitmo!” ♦
BUMP!
“The latest gossip was that, on the night Obama was elected, someone at the base had started a conga line at two in the morning, pissing off the military prosecutors. Someone speculated that it was members of “the Ramzi Binalshibh crew.””
How quintessentially traitorous!
Lots of dots. Will check in later..got to run some errands.
W-I-C-K-E-D
Wed, Jul. 09, 2008
ACLU, Treasury in dispute over paying captives’ lawyers
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — When U.S. law groups announced in April that they were hiring the nation’s top criminal defense lawyers to defend alleged al Qaeda terrorists at the war court here, one executive called the lawyers ``The A Team.’’
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Tuesday, ACLU director Anthony Romero accused the Bush administration of foot-dragging, noting civilian defense lawyers were slow to receive security clearances to meet accused terrorists held for years without access to attorneys. ACLU says it has budgeted more than $8.5 million to defend the detainees.
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Under it, attorneys will be paid for travel, expenses, research and copying as well as $250 an hour to defend men described by President Bush as ‘’the worst of the worst’’ now facing death penalty prosecutions at the war court.
Top criminal defense lawyers typically charge at least $550 an hour.
At its inception, the legal team got prestigious endorsements from such wide-ranging lawyers as former Attorney General Janet Reno and former FBI Director William Webster. Romero boasted he was assembling the A Team, the cream of American criminal defense attorneys who had earlier helped alleged terrorists, foreign and domestic.
Participants include Boise lawyers David Nevin and Scott McKay, who are Pentagon defense consultants to alleged 9/11 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed, 43; Seattle attorneys Jeff Robinson and Amanda Lee, defending Mohammed’s nephew, Ammar al Baluchi, 30, who noted at his June 5 arraignment that he is a Microsoft certified computer engineer; and Chicago lawyer Tom Durkin, defending Ramzi bin al Shibh, accused of organizing some of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
Nevin said he was surprised at the standoff, especially since the ACLU had long been ``in the business of defending people’s rights.’’
‘’Obviously, everyone is going to do whatever is required to be done. But, intuitively, it seems odd to me that anyone’s permission is necessary,’’ he said.
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“Cheney says Obama has increased risks to U.S.” (3/15/09)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/us/politics/16cheney.html?_r=2&ref=politics
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“U.S. moving enemy combatant to Illinois court” (2/26/09-Wow, that was FAST)
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/02/us_moving_enemy_combatant_to_i.html
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“UN expert rips U.S. allies for Anti-terror tactics, plans investigation into CIA, Gitmo detentions” (3/10/09)
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/03/un_expert_rips_us_allies_for_a.html
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“Eric Holder tells West Point: The law was not followed in U.S. War Against Terror”
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/04/eric_holder_tells_west_point_t.html
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Ahem! Mr. Holder, suspected terrorists and American haters aren't covered under the U.S. Constitution last time I read it...
I did. Yesterday.
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