Assistant Secretary of Defense Cully Stimson told Federal News Radio
that the nation’s major corporate CEOs ought to pressure their law firms not to represent “terrorists”: "I think, quite honestly, when corporate CEOs see that those firms are representing the very terrorists who hit their bottom line back
in 2001, those CEOs are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms, and I think that is going to have major play in the next few weeks. And we want to watch that play out."
Mr. Stimson is a lawyer and ought to know better, he graduated from George Mason Law School and worked for the Navy. He is the top Pentagon official in charge of detainee detention. I would like to think that one could not graduate from law school without a firm understanding of the American legal system. Fundamental to the process is the notion that the defendant enjoys a right to a lawyer. John Adams (our second president) represented the British troops responsible for the Boston Massacre.
No wonder that he Bush Administration has so long run afoul of basic legal rights, it’s lawyers are so stupid. The other possibility of course is that Bush lawyers are merely craven and they do no better. I don’t know which possibility is worse. Is the attitude of Mr. Stimson a function of the 9-11 attacks, or was the attitude merely given cover by the attacks? I wonder whether the evidence against the detainees is so weak that no possibility exists of proving a case in any adversarial forum.
in 2001, those CEOs are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms, and I think that is going to have major play in the next few weeks. And we want to watch that play out."
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