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  • Thompson Linked to Work for Libyans

    09/08/2007 7:32:17 PM PDT · by PilloryHillary · 134 replies · 2,341+ views
    The New York Times ^ | September 9, 2007 | JO BECKER
    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 firm’s 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...
  • Verdict Vs. Lawyer in Terror Case Upheld [Lynne Stewart]

    10/25/2005 9:08:44 PM PDT · by SmithL · 21 replies · 617+ views
    AP ^ | 10/25/5 | LARRY NEUMEISTER
    NEW YORK -- Freedom of speech offers no protection for a lawyer convicted of providing material support to terrorists for publicly releasing messages from a notorious jailed sheik, a judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl rejected all of attorney Lynne Stewart's arguments that the February verdict should be tossed out. Stewart, 65, had argued that her client, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, was engaging in protected speech when he expressed his opinion about a cease fire by Islamic militants in Egypt that Stewart passed along in a 2000 press release. Koeltl said the sheik's actions were not constitutionally protected,...