Lynne Stewart, Brandon Mayfield, and the Portland Seven

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

One of the means that the George W. Bush administration has used to
curtail civil liberties is to attack lawyers who defend unpopular
clients. The most high-profile example has been the case of Lynne
Stewart, one of whose clients was Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman who is now
serving a life sentence for seditious conspiracy against the United
States. . . .

Lynne Stewart has not been the only lawyer harassed by the government
for her legal practice. An "affidavit filed by FBI Special Agent
Richard K. Werder in support of a material witness arrest warrant for
Portland lawyer Brandon Mayfield," concerning "the March 11 bombings
in Madrid that killed 191 people and injured 2,000 others," made much
of the fact that "Mayfield represented Jeffrey Leon Battle in a child
custody case. Battle later was among a group of Portland men who
pleaded guilty to conspiring to help al-Qaida and the Taliban fight
U.S. forces in Afghanistan," in addition to casting suspicion on him
because he is a Muslim convert and married to an Egyptian-born woman
("FBI's Brandon Mayfield Case Timeline," KATU.com May 24, 2004). . . .

The full posting at
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/lynne-stewart-brandon-mayfield-and.html>.
--
Yoshie

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