Top Law Fims Supporting Terroist

The New York Times the paper that likes to tell the world our secret was apparently startled to find out that a Pentagon official exposed a network of top American law firms defending terrorist in court.

The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation's top firms were representing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and that the firms corporate clients should consider ending their business ties.

The comments by Charles D. Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, produced an instant torrent of anger from lawyers, legal ethics specialists and bar association officials, who said Friday that his comments were repellent and displayed an ignorance of the duties of lawyers to represent people in legal trouble.

"This is prejudicial to the administration of justice," said Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University and an authority on legal ethics. "It's possible that lawyers willing to undertake what has been long viewed as an admirable chore will decline to do so for fear of antagonizing important clients.

"We have a senior government official suggesting that representing these people somehow compromises American interests, and he even names the firms, giving a target to corporate America."



- If the truth be told what we have is an American patriot who told the American public the truth, you know the type of investigative reporting that the Times selectively overlooks. If the left wants Americans' to know the facts about this war we should be informed as to who these corporations are. They always want us to know what Haliburton is doing but want us to ignore the legal industrial complex.Is it possible that the left in America only wants to reveal information that it sees as appropropriate; information like telling the terrorist the location of our solders in Iraq.The truth is that you can not have it both ways we must know as an informed public who is helping our enemies and we must blog about it to ad nauseam.

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