Published Works | No. 4 | 27 January 2007

We Want Tough Arguments

The war on terror transcends political parties and will increasingly call for the best argumentation and insight from our nation’s finest advocates. That’s one of many reasons why the recent remarks of Cully Stimson, the Pentagon official in charge of detainee affairs, were particularly unfortunate. Stimson, who singled out law firms by name (and their corporate clients) for representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay, not only attacked those lawyers but also managed to attack the legal profession as a whole.

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