Great article. No thanks again to the powers that be that came here to PA and campaigned relentlessly for specter.
We all know about Senator Spectre. POS.
Judge Kollar-Kotelly was appointed to the United States District Court in May 1997.
A Clinton appointee. Now everything makes sense.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rules on a lawsuit filed by three Kuwaiti detainees at Guantanamo: Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari, Khalid Abdullah Mishal al-Mutairi, and Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad al-Odah. She rules that detainees should be permitted to communicate with their lawyers without the government listening in on their conversations. She says the government's attempt to wire-tap detainee-attorney communications threatens to “erode [the] bedrock principle” of attorney-client privilege. She says the government is defending its position with “a flimsy assemblage” of arguments. “The government has supplied only the most slender legal support for its argument, which cannot withstand the weight of the authority surrounding the importance of the attorney-client privilege.” [Reuters, 10/20/2004] The three Kuwaitis, Judge Kollar states, “have been detained virtually incommunicado for nearly three years without being charged with any crime. To say that their ability to investigate the circumstances surrounding their capture and detention is ‘seriously impaired’ is an understatement.” [Associated Press, 10/21/2004]
This is one more outrageous example of the short sighted thinking of our elected representatives and senators.
It was bad enough that judges throw out evidence in a trial, but when they throw out everything that could find terrorists because the rules weren't followed, we need to revolt and throw out anyone who holds such stupid ideas.