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ACLU Responds to DOJ Investigation of Gitmo Defense Lawyers

By | 08.21.09 | 12:47 pm

Here’s the response of Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, to this morning’s news that some military defense lawyers are under investigation by the Justice Department:

This is nothing more than a misguided effort to shut down the vigorous defense of defendants at

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Did Gitmo Defense Lawyer Break Any Laws?

By | 08.21.09 | 11:16 am

That’s what I asked Joshua Dratel, Chair of the John Adams Project Advisory Committee and a prominent defense lawyer who has represented numerous terror suspects before. Speaking this morning after the news broke that the Department of Justice is investigating military defense lawyers representing terror suspects, More…