Posted on 09/08/2007 7:32:17 PM PDT by PilloryHillary
A little over three years after Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, Fred D. Thompson provided advice to a colleague about one of his law firms new clients: The man representing the two Libyan intelligence officials charged in the terrorist bombing.
The colleague, John Culver, a partner at the Washington firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn began advising the two suspects Libyan lawyer in February 1992. Mr. Thompson, according to a memorandum from that era written by his secretary, held discussions with Culver re: Libya that same month.
At the time, Libya was facing international outrage for refusing to comply with a United Nations demand that the two suspects be extradited to the West for trial in the 1988 bombing, which killed 270 people. Revelations that American firms were representing Libyan interests provoked a furor among the Pan Am victims families. Some law firms refused to represent the country or the suspects, while others withdrew.
The involvement of Mr. Thompson, who worked part-time for Arent Fox as a lawyer and lobbyist from 1991 until shortly before his election to the Senate in 1994, never became public. But Arent Foxs chairman, Marc L. Fleischaker, confirmed that Mr. Thompson, who is now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, briefly provided Mr. Culver with advice about the suspects case, billing the firm for 3.3 hours of his time.
The firm was hired to provide guidance on the tense questions surrounding where the two men should be tried, Mr. Fleischaker said, and Mr. Thompsons background as a former prosecutor, as well as his government relations experience he had close ties to senior officials in the first Bush administration gave him insight on jurisdictional issues such as that.
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John Culver is the former ultraliberal rodent Senator from Iowa. His son is the current Governor and has the IQ of a turnip.
Ping!
Tom Villsack is his kid, or he’s the gov somewhere else?
So????
Chet Culver. Vilsack’s term as Governor concluded in January.
One could view it as no big deal or giving 3.3 hours of indirect legal advice to Islamic terrorists.
I’m in the same boat. I want to like Fred but I hate lobbyists, and those who support them, with a passion.
Hmm...just what, We were expecting.....A $hrillary 'sponsored' hit piece......its very weak.
Thompson is a terrorist supporter!
< / left wing rant>
All politicians are whores; we have to choose the least disgusting or the most pro-American guy.
He’s done lobbying off and on for nearly 30 years and he made ‘over a million dollars’. I believe someone did the math on the exact numbers and it came out to about $60k per year.
I'm sure 'they' are just warming up.
The Left must be terrified of Fred to have it’s media arm throw this kind of mud the first week after Fred declared.
Here we go...
They are going to pull out all the stops. Every single thing that Fred did is going to be placed in the most negative light possible. Fred’s candidacy obviously terrifies them.
I am fastening my seat belt.
Go, Fred!
3.3 hours? And the way the legal profession calculates billing hours, that probably means a lot less than 3.3 hours of actual time devoted to the case. (Most firms have some kind of minimum billable unit, and any fraction of that gets billed as that—e.g. a 3 min phone call would be billed as, say 10 min.)
I'm not totally 'sold' on Fred, but just how much money and influence have the OTHER candidates gotten over the years? Fred has nothing on the Clintons.
This is standard practice in law firms.
Anyways, it wouldn’t matter if Fred personally represented them.
That is an integral part of our legal system.
We don’t have show trials in America.
Bother sides are represented fully and to the best ability possible, and then a decision is made based on what is presented.
Proper representation doesn’t make the guilty any less guilty, though it gives the innocent a chance to prove their innocence.
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