Terrorizing Lawyers: My Article in Today's National Law Journal

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by Jesselyn Radack
My name is Jesselyn Radack and I am the former Justice Department ethics attorney and whistleblower in the case of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh. In today's issue of The National Law Journal (Feb. 19, 2007), I have an Op-Ed entitled "Targeting Lawyers" on what it really looks like when the government tries to control attorneys acting on behalf of terrorism suspects and, if it cannot control them, punish them. I speak from personal experience in being blacklisted by this Administration.

When the Pentagon's former deputy assistant secretary, Charles D. Stimson, attacked law firms for representing Guantánamo Bay detainees a few weeks ago, it was nothing less than modern-day McCarthyism. Although Stimson resigned, his lingering stench cannot be so easily removed. His ominous words will hover in the general atmosphere of fear that has pervaded our country since 9/11.

For years, the government has been trying to control attorneys acting on behalf of terrorism suspects and, if it cannot control them, then to punish them. I speak from experience, which you can read about in my diary from yesterday http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/18/173111/605

I am the very real face of what the Pentagon's admonition looks like in practice, and I did not even represent an alleged terrorist-I just gave the Justice Department advice seen as favorable to one.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/19/65324/9733

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