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Democrats' McCarthyite Attack on Detainee Lawyers
Submitted by Little Alex on Fri, 2010-05-28 03:00
Glenn Greenwald: Vladeck thoroughly documents how the lawyer conduct that is targeted by the mandated investigation is so broad that it could easily encompass every act of defending Guantanamo detainees, and thus, standing alone, could serve to intimidate and deter lawyers from vigorously representing those detainees in the future.
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