Do Terrorists Have a Right to an Attorney?
By Mark Noonan on liberal lies
This article from the Wall Street Journal details some of the insane, dangerous actions taken by US attorneys who were claiming to represent enemy combatants at Gitmo:
<<< On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page color brochure. The cover consisted of the now famous photograph of newly-arrived detainees dressed in orange jumpsuits—masked, bound and kneeling on the ground at Camp X-Ray—just four months after 9/11. Written entirely in Arabic, it also included pictures of what appeared to be detainee operations in Iraq. Major General Jay W. Hood, then the commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, concurred with the guards that this represented a serious breach of security.
Maj. Gen. Hood asked his Islamic cultural adviser to translate. The cover read: “Cruel. Inhuman. Degrades Us All: Stop Torture and Ill-Treatment in the ‘War on Terror.’” It was published by Amnesty International in the United Kingdom and portrayed America and its allies as waging a campaign of torture against Muslims around the globe.
“One thread that runs through many of the testimonies from prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, and from Guantanamo,” the brochure read, “is that of anti-Arab, anti-Islamic, and other racist abuse.”…
…Maj. Gen. Hood’s immediate concern about the magazine’s “propaganda and misinformation” was the strong potential that it would incite detainees to act out against U.S. personnel in his facility. The Islamic cultural adviser agreed, telling Maj. Gen. Hood that “the tone of the magazine was highly inflammatory” and “would cause a negative reaction, especially amongst the more hard-core terrorist factions within the camp.” >>>
This Amnesty International slander piece was sent to Gitmo by lawyers working for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a firm which was claiming to represent Gitmo detainees. Here’s the nutshell of it: these attorneys sent a document in to Gitmo which could incite acts of violence which would endanger both prisoners and guards as well as provide a blueprint for how to claim abuse where none existed. In order to make some sort of stupid, anti-American point, these lawyers endangered lives.
And now that some of these attorneys are working for the Obama Administration, there are claims that such actions are in the finest traditions of American legal practice! Dimwits who play with human blood are being congratulated for their “courage” in defending “unpopular” clients…as if their clients were actually unpopular in the social circles the attorneys lived and worked in.
This is just insane. The men in Gitmo are dedicated killers – merciless men who will kill anyone, anywhere, if they think it advances their sick cause, These aren’t people who need lawyers – they need psychiatrists. This is akin to trying to defend Charles Manson – except, worse, because Manson doesn’t have anyone on the outside to commit hideous acts in his name.
Its time we started looking at the world as it is, not through the eyes of ivory-tower, ignorant liberals. There are some people who have put themselves outside the protections of the law – they are called terrorists. When we capture them, they are to count their lucky stars if we don’t kill them – they are not to get attorneys to try and twist American law in to knots for the benefits of the enemies of all that is decent in the world.
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