Jameel Jaffer - ACLU attorney aka enemy of the United States
Posted on 08/03/2010 1:50:31 PM PDT by honestabe010
The father of Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-Yemeni citizen who has been dubbed as al Qaeda's top English-language Internet recruiter, will sue the Obama administration in an effort to stop U.S. drones from trying to kill his son.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights announced on Tuesday that they are representing Nasser Awlaki in his efforts to remove his son from a list of people that may be killed or captured by the CIA or U.S. military.
Jameel Jaffer, a litigator and director of the ACLU's National Security Project, traveled with a colleague to Yemen earlier this year to meet with Nasser Awlaki and other Yemeni human rights groups, the attorney said in a conference call on Tuesday.
The U.S. Treasury Department had said that providing legal counsel on behalf of Anwar Awlaki required a special exemption from the Office of Foreign Asset Control because he is a designated foreign terrorist.
The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights now are filing a case to challenge the precedent, claiming that the government cannot stop lawyers from representing American citizens.
The ACLU also has applied for a permit to represent Nasser Awlaki in court.
Dennis Blair, President Obama's first director of national intelligence, told Congress on Feb. 3 that there is a list of Americans who had joined al Qaeda who could be targeted for killing.
In the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Islamic cleric, his English-language sermons are said to have been instrumental in inspiring a number of attacks inside this country, including the fatal shooting of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in November. Army Maj. Nidal Hassan has been accused of that attack.
More recently, Anwar al-Awlaki is said to have inspired the May 1 attempted car bombing in New York City...
(Excerpt) Read more at thewoodwardreport.com ...
Better to steer clear of your traitorous son. And keep other relatives away from him. Never know when one of those drones will strike. Hopefully, sooner rather than later.
Wow, What some people will do for a buck.
The ACLU and Al Qaeda working together.
Not a suprise.
The ACLU are anti-America and have been working throughout their history to try and destroy this nation.
Another treasonous outlet that needs to have all its terrorist supporting idiots tried and then placed in front of a public firing squad.........
How ironic, how moronic, that this al-Qaeda scum would never
allow rhis ACLU monbat the same privilege once they rule.
The ACLU’s time is coming too.
I hope the guillotine is not worn out after taking care of congress and the senate, though.
And our Treasury Department agreed to this special exemption?
WTF?
Jameel Jaffer - ACLU attorney aka enemy of the United States
Nasser Awlaki
ACLUers are slimier than the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
You sure beat me to that, kill the old man too AND his ACLU lawyer.
Wouldn’t it be great if the drone found him during an attorney/client conference?
> And our Treasury Department agreed to this special exemption?
What else would you expect with a Kenyan Moslem Communist as a president?
Are the nuts truly running the asylum, or what?
CNN Exclusive: Al-Awlaki’s father says son is ‘not Osama bin Laden’
January 11, 2010
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) — His anguish apparent, the father of Anwar al-Awlaki told CNN that his son is not a member of al Qaeda and is not hiding out with terrorists in southern Yemen.
“I am now afraid of what they will do with my son, he’s not Osama Bin Laden, they want to make something out of him that he’s not,” said Dr. Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Gotta love that jihadi lawfare!
“I’m shocked! The same America haters who started a campaign to ‘close Gitmo’ are now aiding and abetting America’s enemies again?”
The Left has been helping the resurgence of Islam since it bottomed out in 1922 with the the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Think of it as Esau giving Ishmael a hand up.
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