WSJ: KSM's Gitmo Lawyers "Dupes"

Must read if you find the Gitmo Lawyer story interesting. Not so much that there's new information on this one, but rather that the WSJ editorial board lays down a pretty serious barrage:

Whether they intend it or not, KSM's victimologists are dupes in his campaign to undermine the antiterror enterprise. They also risk tearing down the firewall between national security and the civilian courts, where Constitutional principles could easily bend after some future attack to the gravity of national self-defense.

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The ultimate purpose of the tribunals is to administer justice. It is a strange worldview that considers such tribunals and the death penalty inappropriate for the murders of 2,972 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and hundreds more world-wide. A society that would not tender justice to a human butcher like KSM is not serious about defending itself.

Meanwhile Bryan Preston touched off another barrage yesterday, taking to task the MSNBC's tut-tutting at a Gitmo interrogator without casting an eye toward the lawyers opposing them. You need to read the whole thing and follow the links he gives--and if you haven't seen it yet, you'll want to open up a tab and check this post of mine (one of several) that Bryan refers to* about the Gitmo Lawyers' Wahhabist backers.

If I had time, I'd write a quick book about this. Someone needs to. The pieces are all over the place but I know where they are: Melanie Morgan has a FOIA list of which law firms are involved in detainee defense, and Debra Burlingame has good stuff coming out her ears. Charles D. Stimson has first-hand knowledge of interactions with the Gitmo Lawyers. I've even found a few pieces of my own, too.

*JYB was down yesterday so there's no link there.