And his lawyer another Atticus Finch 
Posted on 08/10/2008 12:06:26 PM PDT by Checkers
George Clooney, already one of Hollywood's leading liberal voices, has embarked on what may be one of his most controversial projects: the story of Osama bin Laden's driver.
Clooney's production company, Smokehouse, has bought the rights to a book about Salim Hamdan, an inmate at Guantánamo Bay who last week was sentenced to jail for his role in helping the al-Qaeda leader. The book, The Challenge, is by journalist Jonathan Mahler and tells the story of Hamdan's capture and trial, defended by a US navy lawyer, Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift. It has had a big critical success.
Last week Yemen-born Hamdan, who has already spent seven years in US custody, received a surprisingly light sentence of just five and a half years for being bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan. Prosecutors had billed the case as a key plank in the 'War on Terror', designed to show that terrorists could be dealt with by Guantánamo. They had described Hamdan as a member of bin Laden's inner circle who had knowledge of his terrorist plans.
Defence lawyers, however, portrayed him as a simple man who had taken a high-paying job in order to feed his family. A military jury seemed to agree with that assessment, clearing him of terrorist conspiracy charges, but finding him guilty of providing support to a terrorist.
The case became a cause célèbre on both sides of America's political divide. Supporters saw it as a chance to show Guantánamo was effectively and fairly dealing with terrorists. Critics, meanwhile, saw it as an abusive system that was using low-level prisoners as scapegoats.
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Let me guess, Clooney will make him out to be a fine, upstanding family man.
Hollywood values.
Clooney is member of F.A.G. They will stop at nothing to rule the world.
Clooney is becoming more anti-American, it seems.
He’s going to self-destruct with this one. imo
A guaranteed Money Loser! Then again, whoever is paying for it doesn’t care about making money.
Is that Oliver Stone movie on George Bush out yet? Has it died already?
Gee Whiz. Hollywood is going to make film about the war on terror. Anyone want to bet who the ‘good guy’ is going to be?
Another one I can skip...like 99% of what Hollywood cranks out these days.
I couldn’t have said it better.
Translation: the critics loved it; the book-buying public wouldn't touch it.
BTW, Clooney is dumber than a fencepost. His proposed movie has "BOMB" written all over it.
Clooney spends libtard money making it.
The movie bombs and Clooney and his dipstick buddies lose money.
Everyone sees what a jackass he, and everyone else involved, are.
It’s a win-win situation!
And his lawyer another Atticus Finch
(a la Morgan Freeman) ...”but Massah bin Ladin, I got to pull over to make watuh”
Didn’t this guy almost get smeared in a motorcycle accident a while back? Maybe he is going to do a movie that examines the guys driving skills. Then again, maybe not.
I hope he does this, and I hope he puts his own money into it.
I hope he does this, and I hope he puts his own money into it.
Just being a pretty-boy?
Ooo, that makes him an expert/authority on everything.
It is funny how these acting tools say how hard "acting" is... it is all part of the "A listers" plan to keep the riff-raff B/C listers from getting any work.
The Clooneys, the Pitts, the Paltrows, etc. of the world use everything in their power to stab fellow actors in the back (by using their thug agents/stylists/lawyers/publicists/etc. to do their dirty work).
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