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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (24851)4/5/2008 11:26:13 AM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (1) of 224718
 
Janet Reno joins ACLU to free Terrorists

>The ACLU assembles a terrorist legal defense force of extraordinary magnitude

April 4, 2008

I started following the case of the Gitmo lawyers way back and quite the epic it is. Well, the government has raised the number of detainees it will seek the death penalty against to seven, and today the WSJ reports that the ACLU has gotten into the game:

Backed by a slate of prominent legal figures, including former Attorney General Janet Reno and former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director William Webster, the ACLU has assembled a team of top civilian attorneys to supplement the military defense counsel assigned to represent Guantanamo’s “high-value detainees.” …

The effort significantly adds to the legal forces that over the past seven years have challenged the administration’s plan to run an offshore court. The addition of the ACLU in particular, with its large financial resources, is a major shot in the arm for those who oppose the tribunal system.
This doesn’t really disturb me too much; obviously the detainees who are to be executed would get lawyers (even the Nuremberg criminals got lawyers) and justice wouldn’t really be served by giving them inexperienced counsel.

P.S. It’s funny: One of Janet Reno’s most significant accomplishments as attorney general was capturing Elian Gonzales and sending him to Cuba. Now she’s trying to get dangerous terrorists out of Cuba and set them free…

michellemalkin.com
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