NYC Bar: Bush Admin Falsely Blames Defense Lawyers For Guantanamo

[kpete]

Request to Pull Guantanamo Lawyer Plan
PETE YOST | AP | April 29, 2007 01:19 PM EST



WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is trying to evade responsibility for problems at the Guantanamo Bay prison by falsely blaming defense lawyers for the trouble, the New York City Bar says.

The group's president leveled the criticism in asking Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to abandon a Justice Department proposal to limit lawyers' access to the nearly 400 detainees.

In a court filing this month, the department said attorney access via the mail system has "enabled detainees' counsel to cause unrest on the base by informing detainees about terrorist attacks."

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"This is an astonishing and disingenuous assertion," the association president, Barry M. Kamins, wrote Gonzales.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070429/guantanamo-lawyers

[cassiepriam]

1. Come on. Just say the truth: Bush is a damn liar.

[Monkeyman]

2. The Blame Game Bush's way

[Rex]

3. I will actually believe anyone cares when they drop the newsspeak.

Falsely blames? Yawn.

[C_U_L8R]

4. If they really mean it..

they ought to disbar the whole stinking lot of em