Posted on 03/14/2009 1:15:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Tony West, a high-powered San Francisco lawyer whose clients have ranged from corporate giants to "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, has been nominated by President Obama as an assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Division.
West, 43, an Oakland resident, met Obama in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention and was one of his finance co-chairs in California last year, when the campaign raised a record $65 million in the state.
A graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School, West worked as a Justice Department attorney under President Bill Clinton, a federal prosecutor in San Francisco and an assistant state attorney general before becoming a litigator at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster in 2001.
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He also took part in the defense of Lindh, the Marin County man who was a 20-year-old Taliban soldier in Afghanistan when he was captured in November 2001. Lindh pleaded guilty in 2002 to serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
West, who ran unsuccessfully for a state Assembly seat in San Jose in 2000, has acknowledged that the Lindh case dampened his political prospects, but said it was the kind of work he believed in.
"I really believe that in working on that case, I was recommitting myself to those principles of due process, fairness - things that separate us from most nations in the world," he told The Chronicle in an interview last year.
West's wife, Maya Harris, is a former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California who recently took a job with the Ford Foundation. His sister-in-law is San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris.
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Elections Have Consequences.™
They’re obviously past the point of hiding their agenda.
“”I really believe that in working on that case, I was recommitting myself to those principles of due process, fairness - things that separate us from most nations in the world,”
Punishing someone for their crime, or in this case for their treason IS due process. Getting them off on a technicality is a perversion of justice.
Zero “the Appeaser” is back in center stage.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last”—Winston Churchill
Probably a blood descendant of Karl marx to boot.
Heard Doc Savage talking about this yesterday. Absolutely incredible.
The Ford Foundation....employed 0bama’s mom
Seems pretty clear that this conflicted lawyer will soon play a starring role in springing the American Taliban.
When will the GOP make this information top priority on billboards, magazines, ads in newspapers? Obvious complete lack of gonads!
You - have - got - to - be - kidding!
Wow...just when you think they can’t get anymore brazen...well, they do.
everyday I wake up, check Freep and then say...WTF!!!
This soup tastes yucky!
I believe it's a shared ideology with those
that would destroy us.
“Probably a blood descendant of Karl marx to boot.”
Take a look at the accompanying photo-he’s probably more closely related to Mugabe than to Marx;)
And he’s only just begun.
Obama’s pick list is so full of Marxists, he will never run out of names.
It could be worse, we could have had McCain /s
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