Acting US Solicitor General represented Bin Laden's driver, 9 in current Justice Dept. worked for Gitmo detainees

• Nine current Justice Dept. attorneys represented Guantanamo detainees. US taxpayers now pay these attorneys' salaries.
  

8/3, "Acting US Solicitor General represented Osama Bin Laden's driver, denied that battle against terrorism is a war," CNS News, F. Lucas

• "Neal Katyal, who became the acting U.S. solicitor general when Elena Kagan was nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, previously served as the legal counsel of record for the man who worked as Osama bin Laden’s driver from February 1996 through November 2001.

Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who underwent training at an al Qaeda camp, was charged with transporting weapons to al Qaeda operatives.

• The Hamden case (argued successfully by Katyal)

• culminated in the 2006 Supreme Court ruling that said the

• Bush administration’s military tribunals violated U.S. law and
  
• international conventions.

In one brief in the Hamden case, Katyal argued that the war on terrorism is not really a war. “That ‘war’ manifestly is not a war in any sense of the term against any nation state or indeed against any well defined enemy,” the brief said.

• Katyal is one of nine attorneys in the Justice Department who previously represented a Guantanamo detainee. That’s the bigger problem, Burlingame said.

“With respect to attorneys representing Gitmo detainees, Katyal is probably the best of the bunch as far as bona fides. It is alarming that the Obama administration has installed so many lawyers that represented Gitmo detainees,” Burlingame said. “He wasn’t just advocating the law, but

• he tried to advance a narrative (that) Hamdan was just a driver. This guy was
  
• transporting weapons aimed at American troops.”"...(and was trained at an Al Qaeda camp)

via MichaelSavage.com