Tony West is Obama's new DOJ pick
Posted on 03/03/2010 3:27:31 PM PST by tobyhill
.......... But West is also no stranger to controversy. In a Chronicle story last year, he acknowledged to reporter Joe Garofoli that he took a risk -- and a possible hit to his political future -- when in 2002, he represented Marin County native John Walker Lindh, the ''American Taliban.''
He recalled then that when Morrison & Foerster partner James Brosnahan asked him to join Lindh's four-member defense team, he said he had to be assured that Lindh did not take up arms against Americans -- and didn't help plan the Sept. 11. 2001, terrorist attacks. ..............
West is connected by marriage to another key backer of Obama, San Francisco District Attorney and state Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris -- whose sister, Maya, he married.
Tony West is Obama's new DOJ pick
What a relief it must have been to learn the guy "only" tried to murder a plane full of people.
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