The NYT on Cully Stimson, arch-weasel

i can't help but believe that mr. stimson was dispatched on a deliberate campaign to discredit legal pro bono work being conducted on behalf of those whose rights have been seriously and illegally abridged...

No one who has followed President Bush’s policies on detainees should be surprised when a member of his team scorns American notions of justice. But even by that low standard, the administration’s new attack on lawyers who dare to give those prisoners the meager representation permitted them is contemptible.

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It does not seem to matter to [Cully Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs], who is a lawyer, that a great many of those detainees did not deserve imprisonment, let alone the indefinite detention to which they are subjected as “illegal enemy combatants.” And forget about the fundamental American right that everyone should have legal counsel, even the most heinous villain.

once again, hard evidence that there is nothing to which this administration will not stoop...

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