The Terrorist Witch Hunt Shifts to Corporate Law Firms {Updated!} [A KosLaw Diary]

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Friday January 12, 2007 · 10:12 AM PST

2007/01/12 · 10:12

Today's Washington Post contains an Editorial with an ominous message for large corporate law firms from the Bush Administration: Represent accused terrorists and we will destroy your firm.

Cully Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, stated in an interview on Federal News Radio:

Actually you know I think the news story that you're really going to start seeing in the next couple of weeks is this: As a result of a FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] request through a major news organization, somebody asked, 'Who are the lawyers around this country representing detainees down there,' and you know what, it's shocking. The major law firms in this country ... are out there representing detainees.

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