Posted on 02/27/2010 7:04:49 AM PST by opentalk
Jennifer Daskal is a radical far left American lawyer who serves as senior counsel for Human Rights Watch, and focuses on issues of terrorism, criminal law and immigration. She is also currently a political hire at Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, which is seeking to prosecute terror suspects through the criminal justice system instead of through military tribunals.
In 2008, Daskal claimed that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was tortured and recommended that his guilty plea be thrown out of court. Now this radical is working for the Obama Administration. It figures.
Human Rights Watch reported:
---Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others announced that they plan to plead guilty to conspiring in the September 11 attacks and related crimes at a hearing before US military commissions at Guantanamo today. All five defendants face the death penalty.
---“What should have been a major victory in holding the 9/11 defendants accountable for terrible crimes has been tainted by torture and an unfair military commissions process,” said Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch. “These five men are known to have been mistreated and tortured during their years in CIA custody, including the acknowledged waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”
---Prior to their transfer to the US military detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay in 2006, all five defendants were held for years in secret CIA detention. Earlier this year, CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden acknowledged that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been subjected to “waterboarding” – a form of mock drowning that has been prosecuted as torture by the United States for more than 100 years. Other defendants are believed to have been subjected to other abusive interrogation methods such as extended sleep deprivation, the use of painful stress positions, and forced nudity, while in CIA custody.
---Under the rules of the military commissions, a judge cannot accept a guilty plea unless he determines that the plea is voluntary and free of coercion.----
Of course, the fact that such a twisted radical is serving in the Holder Justice Department, surprises no one.
More… At least 9 Holder Justice officials have previously represented terrorists.
Another far left nut-
Senator Grassley asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for “the names of political appointees in your department who represent detainees or who work for organizations advocating on their behalf…the cases or projects that these appointees work with respect to detainee prior to joining the Justice Department…and the cases or projects relating to detainees that have worked on since joining the Justice Department.” (nov 2009)
On February 19, 2010, Mr. Holder responded via letter, conceding nine such new hires at the Department of Justice worked for terrorist detainees or on behalf of the rights of terrorist detainees. He did not name 7 of those, only affirming the names of two already known: Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, former lawyer to Osama bin Laden’s driver, and Jennifer Daskal, a detainee advocate at Human Rights Watch.link
It gets worse. - the lawyer that represented Osama Bin Ladens driver/body guard is working at DOJ,
How can they represent the US people with this background. Seems like sabotage.
Wonder who the other 7 lawyers are, sure it is more of the same
EDITORIAL EXCLUSIVE: On terrorists, Justice recused“
AG Eric Holder's clients (the REAL reason for the transfer – to free them):
• Saad Al Qahtani
• Mohammed Zahrani
• Achraf Salim ("Sultan") Abdessalam
• Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghityh Sulayman
• Musaab Omar Al Madhwani
• Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan (Al Sahlani)
• Majid Khan
“Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder’s conflicted DOJ“
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We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
“The New Media Journal | Attorney General Holder's Advisers Have Conflicts on Detainee Cases“
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