Posted on 10/16/2006 2:07:05 AM PDT by aculeus
Lynne F. Stewart, the firebrand lawyer known for defending unsavory criminals, now faces the possibility of living out her life like many of them, in maximum-security lockdown in a federal prison.
Today, 20 months after she was convicted on terror charges, Ms. Stewart and two co-defendants who were convicted of conspiring with her will be sentenced in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Prosecutors, arguing that Ms. Stewart repeatedly flouted the law to aid the violent designs of an imprisoned terrorist client, have asked Judge John G. Koeltl to condemn her to 30 years in prison.
That would be a life sentence for Ms. Stewart, who turned 67 last week. Long an abrasive advocate of anti-government causes, these days she is not defiant. She is mournful about what she said were her failures as a lawyer.
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She said that she completely misjudged how prosecutors viewed the sheik and the leeway she could take in defending him, as terrorism became an increasing threat to the United States. “To me, the sheik was part of the demonized other,” she said, “part of a continuum” with other violent radicals she had defended more successfully, including members of the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers.
She admits that she became too close to the sheik, insisting it was because of his deteriorating health and sanity after years in solitary confinement, not any affinity with his Islamic fundamentalism.
“I ignored any warning signs,” Ms. Stewart said. “I led with my heart instead of my head and thought it would be all right.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I don't know.
Piasa just wrote a post that reminded me of another Clinton connection, and that's Ramsey Clark. He's a great friend of Hillary's, and he's the one who urged Stewart to represent the terrorist after Kuby bailed out.
Send her to hell.
Hang her in Battery Park.
2339A doesn't look like it has a minimum. No Minimum = crazy leeway for this judge. Maybe even non-custodial?
we should send her some cheese - she seems to have plenty of whine in her already...
Too bad nobody in the administration has the nads to charge her with treason. If a teason charge can stick against a brainless pop-culturist like Adam Gadan, it can stick against this loathesome tool. Like so many others, she has been well-rewarded for her treason over the past 40 years. It is time to make them all pay.
That is a single sentence summation of Liberal 'philosophy'; also known as 'the road to Hell' school of philosophy.
She appears to know now that what she did was wrong. Funny ... a continum of her years defending the underground.
Off to jail!
When The Traitorous Jane Fonda and her ilk did not get charged for treason in Vietnam (and that was definitely treason) the bar was raised so high it can never be used again.
The Founding Fathers made treason a difficult charge to bring against someone, for good reason, having known many who suffered under it at the hand of The Crown, since it was used as a catch-all charge.
This woman committed treason as well. She should thank her stars for Jane Fonda. And John Conyers. And Jimmy Carter...and...
So true. So true.
I really think that this is bullshit - if you'll excuse the expression - and you deserve what you get.
1995 : (NY : SHEIKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN IS CONVICTED OF PLOTTING TO BLOW UP THE WTC IN 1993; HE WOULD LATER DIRECT THE MURDER PLOT FROM HIS PRISON CELL -WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS LEFTWING LAWYER LYNNE STEWART, US POSTAL WORKER AHMED ABDEL SATTAR, AND EGYPTIAN YASSIR SIRRI - WHICH WOULD SLAY NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMED SHAH MASSOUD ON SEPT 9, 2001, JUST DAYS BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK OF 9/11) -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm (* My note: So much for the 'criminal justice method of dealing with terrorists...)
1997 : (LUXOR, EGYPT MASSACRE OF TOURISTS & EGYPTIAN SECURITY GUARDS ) -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm
1999 : (GROUP RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 1997 MASSACRE IN LUXOR, EGYPT ASKS AHMED ABDEL SATTAR) According to Sattar's indictment, an Islamic group leader asked him to help expand the group's presence in the United States three years ago. The group has taken responsibility for the 1997 massacre at Luxor, Egypt in which 58 tourists and four Egyptian security guards were hacked and shot to death. -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm
2001summer : (EGYPTIAN-BORN US POSTAL WORKER AHMED ABDEL SATTAR'S CONVERSATION ABOUT HIS 'LETTER OF INTRODUCTION 'TO AFGHAN NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMED SHAH MASSOUD IS WIRETAPPED; SATTAR ACTS AS IMPRISONED SHEIKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN'S 'COMMUNICATIONS CENTER') But a conversation in the summer of 2001 about the letter surfaced during a wiretap involving Sattar, who [would later be] charged with serving as a communications center for an Egyptian terrorist group allegedly directed by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman from his U.S. prison cell, the Post reported [later]. Abdel-Rahman was convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up New York landmarks, including the World Trade Center. -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm
SEPTEMBER 9, 2001 : (AFGHANISTAN : NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMED SHAH MASSOUD IS ASSASSINATED BY AL QAEDA OPERATIVES BEARING A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION PARTIALLY DRAFTED BY EGYPTIAN-BORN US POSTAL WORKER AHMED ABDEL SATTAR AND EGYPTIAN YASSIR SIRRI) Massoud's murder, which took place on 9 September 2001. ...U.S. authorities [would come to] believe that Massoud was killed as a pre-emptive strike in advance of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that killed more than 3,000 people two days later, the [NY Post] newspaper [later] said. -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm
MAY 13, 2002 : (WASHINGTON POST REPORTS : 'LETTER OF INTRODUCTION' PARTIALLY DRAFTED BY US POSTAL WORKER AHMED ABDEL SATTAR MAY BE LINKED TO THE ASSASSINATION AFGHAN NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMED SHAH MASSOUD IN 2001; ANOTHER OF THE LETTER'S AUTHORS, AN EGYPTIAN NAMED YASSIR SIRRI, HAS BEEN CHARGED BY BRITAIN WITH CONSPIRING TO KILL MASSOUD) U.S. officials believe that a letter partially drafted by a U.S. postal worker now in custody may have had a role in the death of an Afghan resistance leader, The Washington Post reported on May 13. U.S. authorities believe that Ahmed Abdel Sattar, 42, helped write a letter of introduction for two men who posed as journalists to kill General Ahmed Shah Massoud in northern Afghanistan last fall, the Post said.
Sattar, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen, has not been charged in Massoud's murder, which took place on 9 September 2001. But a conversation in the summer of 2001 about the letter surfaced during a wiretap involving Sattar, who is charged with serving as a communications center for an Egyptian terrorist group allegedly directed by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman from his U.S. prison cell, the Post reported.
Another Egyptian man who allegedly helped draft the letter, Yassir Sirri, has been charged by Britain with conspiring to kill Massoud. ...Sattar, a 13-year veteran of the U.S. Post office, earned $40,000 per year working at the main post office in Staten Island, New York. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. According to Sattar's indictment, an Islamic group leader asked him to help expand the group's presence in the United States three years ago. The group has taken responsibility for the 1997 massacre at Luxor, Egypt in which 58 tourists and four Egyptian security guards were hacked and shot to death. -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm
Possible. She's an old radical just like Hillary - part of the enemy within. Remember, Clinton pardoned one of Stewart's client's (Kathy Boudin) associates, Linda Evans, from the Weather Underground. She ended up doing about half of a forty or fifty year sentence. The judge deciding the penalty is a Clinton appointee, and it's in NY where Hillary is a sitting U.S. senator. There's a big Ramsey Clark connection, too, and he's a close friend of Hillary's.
Nothing would surprise me.
Louis claims "Soros...is a political actor who uses his money to advance a political agenda, namely to move politics to the center." I barely know who Soros is, so I can't comment on that assessment in general, but the fact that he gives money to independent media organizations is something that we should be thankful for.
He also says: "In order to legitimize his interventions, he also funds relatively innocuous outfits like Human Rights Watch as well as "cutting edge" causes like Attorney Lynne Stewart who was victimized by Ashcroft and company. Her website includes the notice: "This website is made possible by the generous support of the Open Society Institute." This is savvy PR, but the left would be better if Soros just went away."
'Democracy Now' + Lynne Stewart
Prosecutor: Lawyer passed on sheik's terrorist urgings FR 6-22-04
The Lynne Stewart-Bin Laden Connection Front Page FR 6-25-04
Counter–Intelligent: The Surveillance and Indictment of Lynne Stewart
Fed judge dismisses terror case against lawyer Lynne Stewart
New Charges Lodged Against Lynne Stewart
Sheesh, that is one ugly moonbat. Character shows at her age, and she looks like all the evil of Stalin's gulag and Pol Pot's killing fields rolled into one over-payed, overfed commie skank.
Hang the beast, and Ramsey Clark with her.
"Patriotism" is a dirty word to those on the left.
It's too bad really, I'd hoped to see her hung.
4 posted on 10/16/2006 2:13:03 AM PDT by tet68
My sentiments also.
She knew what that guy was, and he wasn't in stir.
Bye-bye Lynne~
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