Comments on: Feds Disavow Gitmo Lawyer Boycott Remarks

Pentagon Spokesman Renounces Official Who Urged Companies To Boycott Firms Representing Detainees

[exusmcsgt]

Andrew_693-

You are correct about the invasion of Iraq increasing the numer of militant Muslims. Several respected and independent studies confirm this fact.

I compare Bubba's strategy in Iraq to trying to rid yourself of roaches with a hammer. When you get one, you'll splatter the $#(? out of it, but until you stop the breeding process your just wasting your time.......

[andrew_693]

There are thousands of illegal immigrants coming into this country every day, if those terrorist nuts don't attack us is certainly not because they can't get inside the US nor because we are fighting all of them in Iraq, is simply because they don't want to and are more interested in drawing us to their playground, were we can kill innocent people, which is what we are doing and turn the survivors into more terrorists. They are succeeding beyond their dreams thanks to the imbecile policy of Bush and those who are paranoid and ignorant. The iraqui insurgency has grown by the thousands since the war started, there are more terrorists now than before.

[johnshaft4]

Herr Gonzalez at the Dept of. "In"Justice is going to make this tyrant his right hand man.
I can see him putting this guy in charge of the Federal Public Defenders Office.

The 66% of us that are fed up with the Feds must stop paying taxes until we see real change. These clowns have forgotten who they work for.

[exusmcsgt]

mygramma-

We'll see how you feel about attorneys when you have the need for legal representation.

I can't believe any rational person would not be outraged at this attempt at economic subterfuge aginst firms who are representing the detainees.

Considering 390 have been released with no charges, I suspect the US has several more who should have never been detained either.

Sitting in Gitmo year after year without even being charged is akin to the former USSR's approach of locking people up indefinitely in gulags without having charges brought against them.

[j_flood]

This and then CIA and Pentagon grabbing bank records. When they write the "Rise and Fall of the USA" will these actions be seen as when the fall began?

[mygramma]

%u201CBecause they're losing they now have no other choice except to attack the lawyers, and that's what they're doing,%u201D

Lawyers as victims ???? We should sympathize with lawyers? The very existence of Gitmo is a shameful blotch on American hitory... and I applaud the legal advocates who are trying to champion the principles of American justice on behalf of the detainees.

But wringing your hands over Stimson's trashing of these advocates for doing what they are doing? That's a little like protesting the execution of an aligator by park rangers for swallowing a dog. My daughter's husband is a lawyer, but he doesn't deserve sympathy for being one.

[Ed0719]

This has the stink of Alberto "Goebbels" Gonzales all over it. Of course Gonzales has never read the Constitution, he is too busy using it for toilet paper.

[ramos937]

Fellows - You have to concede one important fact. Enough people voted for President Bush to reelect him. If you need to blame someone, look in the mirror if you voted for him.

[ramos937]

This is to cbgb31.At one time, we had over 900 detainees at GITMO. Now we have around 450. After years of detention, we freed 450 after an examination of their cases. These had their hearings due mainly to the efforts of their lawyers - military and civilian. Why did we free them?

You have strong opinions. Many of the detainees are in GITMO because someone turned them in for the reward money - around $25,000. What bearing does this have on your thinking?

If you say that there have been cases where detainees have gone and joined Al Queda, you are right. After the way they have been treated, they are looking for payback.

Moral - if we think someone belongs in GITMO, give him/her a legitimate fair hearing at the beginning where he/she is allowed fair help; allowed to see and hear the evidence againist him/her and in short do what we can to insure that an innocent person is not being detained unjustly. We have not done that in the past.

[cbgb31]

A hundred 9-11's are not worth compromising our core principles for.
Posted by RandalDS at 02:41 AM : Jan 14, 2007

I'm sorry this is B.S.