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"To the best of my knowledge, he is a Somali asylee," he said of his client.

We applaud lawyers who lie like this in our society. We get dreamy about them, even call them, when they form a team of liars, the Dream Team. This is an obvious lie. The lawyer has a hundred ways to find out for sure whether or not his own client is a Somali asylee. His own client can provide the proof if there is any. But instead he goes the "to the best of my knowledge" route which covers him later when the lie is exposed. This is yet another reason why terrorists love streaming into the United States from both borders.....they get incredible legal comfort here...the WTC bombers, the original ones, were treated royally. We are a society that converts the criminal into the victim because that's where the money is in law. And that's what the Democrats have supported for all these years....Defense Attorneys (because that's where the donations to Democrats come from.) Only a strong and principled judiciary can reverse this trend, which is exactly why Daschle is trying to stop Bush's appointments.

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(this is a snip from the article - but the rest of the article has interesting details on other detainees and known terrorists: )

One of those detained, Mohdar Mohamed Abdoulah, a 23-year-old San Diego college student from Yemen, originally was held as a material witness, meaning he might have information important to the investigation. He was arrested and taken to New York City for grand jury testimony about his acquaintance with a Sept. 11 hijacker.

Abdoulah was returned to San Diego and charged with immigration violations. While a federal magistrate has granted Abdoulah his release on $500,000 bail, he remains in custody because property pledged for bail money is still $125,000 short, said his lawyer, Kerry Steigerwalt.

Steigerwalt has his own problems in defending his client. "The evidence has not been totally revealed by prosecutors," he said. "I don't know the strength of the case."

The lawyer's job is further complicated because of a new Justice Department policy to monitor conversations between detainees and their lawyers.

"There is a camera position right above us recording our entire encounter," Steigerwalt said of his meetings with Abdoulah in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego. "This certainly has had a chilling effect on what we discussed."