Official Attacks Top Law Firms Over Detainees - -Is This Really America?

[spanone]

Bush* administration wants to destroy the very fiber of our once great country.

~snip~ WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 — 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 Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and that the firms’ corporate clients should consider ending their business ties.~snip~

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/washington/13gitmo.html?hp&ex=1168664400&en=fbd6515465ede1db&ei=5059&partner=AOL

[aquart]

1. And those corporate clients would be..........

Hey, couldn't hurt to let them know real Americans approve of civil rights and habeas corpus.

[Stephanie]

3. I believe the attorneys are volunteering via the Center for Constitutional Rights >

http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/gac/

[Stephanie]

2. I met one of those lawyers at a party recently.

He's at a top firm and doing it pro bono. Lovely guy. Smart, committed, loves his country, and our Constitution.