Posted on 08/02/2024 4:47:11 PM PDT by george76
West said 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh was 'not a terrorist'..
Kamala Harris has a "powerful" new campaign adviser: her brother-in-law Tony West, the former Obama Justice Department attorney who defended a convicted terrorist sentenced to 20 years in prison for fighting with the Taliban and colluding with al-Qaeda.
West is now "a powerful adviser" to Harris's "new campaign," Axios reported Friday. Roughly 20 years prior, West held a different role: attorney for a Taliban terrorist.
West in 2002 signed on to defend "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, who was captured in Afghanistan one year earlier and subsequently indicted for providing services to the Taliban and al-Qaeda—and for conspiring to murder Americans. During the trial, West—then an attorney at the San Francisco law firm Morrison & Foerster, which was known for defending enemy combatants detained by the United States—dismissed claims that Lindh was a terrorist.
"He is not a terrorist," West said of Lindh during a 2002 Washington Post interview. "He did not go to Afghanistan to kill Americans." Lindh, who also goes by Sulayman al-Faris and Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi, was later sentenced to 20 years in prison. He has refused to renounce his Islamic extremist ideologies.
West’s role in the Harris campaign is already driving concerns among Democratic strategists, though not for his terrorist defending past. Instead, one party official told Axios that West's "prominent role could re-create the same family dynamics that at times caused unnecessary drama in her 2020 campaign."
West, who is married to Harris's sister, Maya, and stepfather of her niece, social justice entrepreneur Meena, is a longtime ally of former president Barack Obama, having raised $65 million for him during the 2008 campaign cycle. His loyalty earned him a spot as the Justice Department’s number three attorney, where he oversaw the Obama administration’s policy toward Guantanamo Bay terrorists.
During his time in the Justice Department, West worked to expand the legal privileges granted to enemy combatants captured on the battlefield.
"Courts must have the procedural tools that enable them to conduct meaningful reviews of the lawfulness of the government’s action," West said during a 2011 speech to the American Bar Association. "Additionally, detainees must have fulsome procedures that allow them to test the legality of their detention."
West also helped push policies at the Obama DOJ that enabled detained terrorists to more easily challenge the government’s case against them.
"We in the Civil Division have embraced procedures to help ensure a meaningful review and fair process," West said. "We’ve worked hard to create a process that allows habeas counsel to review classified evidence; we have taken on significant discovery obligations to provide access to classified material in the government’s files that could be helpful to the detainee in challenging the government’s case."
Earlier this week, the Biden-Harris administration struck a plea deal with the masterminds behind the 9/11 attack on New York City, allowing them to avoid trial in exchange for life in prison. The deal drew intense Republican pushback and anger from the families of those killed in the World Trade Center strike.
"The Biden-Harris Administration has done the unthinkable: they’ve agreed to a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11th attacks, and two of his accomplices," House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) wrote on X. "This plea deal is a slap in the face of those families. They deserved better from the Biden-Harris Administration."
During her 2016 Senate campaign, Harris argued during a speech at a Los Angeles mosque that the American public should no longer use the term "radical Islamic terrorism," saying it "ignores how Muslims have overwhelmingly been the greatest victims of terror."
Harris is also a longtime critic of America's counterterrorism operations. Following former president Donald Trump's 2020 killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Harris accused the former president of endangering American troops.
"Soleimani was an enemy of the U.S., but President Trump's actions put more American lives at risk and could lead to a new war in the Middle East—with no plan for what happens next," Harris said at the time. "The Administration must fully brief and make its case to Congress ASAP."
Jihad Kammy.
kamalalala is quite the piece of work there DIMs. LOL! More popcorn!!!
What a disgusting web of human filth.
Meenakshi Ashley Harris (born October 20, 1984) is an American lawyer, author and theater producer. In theatre production, Harris has won a Tony Award for producing A Strange Loop, and was also nominated for producing Suffs.[3] Harris’s first children’s picture book Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea (2020) was released by HarperCollins’ imprint Balzer + Bray, and is based on the story of her mother, Maya Harris, and aunt, Kamala Harris, the 49th vice president of the United States.[4]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meena_Harris
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh
[On May 23, 2019, Lindh was released early for good behavior from the Terre Haute, Indiana federal prison prior to the end of his twenty-year sentence, although he accepted several probation requirements due to his continued support of Islamist ideology.[3] These requirements included a ban from internet use and contact with fellow extremists.[57] The probation lasted for the remaining three years of his sentence.[58][1] President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were among many who criticized the release, but Trump said “From a legal standpoint, there’s nothing we’re allowed to do”.[59]]
Whoreizontal Harris and her ilk want us all horizontal 6ft under. They abhor infidels, bitter clingers, deplorables and dog-faced pony soldiers. F totalitarians
911 deal has been canned
Thanks to all posters. BUMP
Bttt.
5.56mm
A whole new family to Grift the Treasury.
Only in America.
Make no mistake this election is a race war. These people represent anti-white racism at the most extreme. Like the South African government has become. This is why the US civil and criminal justice system cannot be the venue where enemy combatants and illegal aliens are indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and incarcerated and/or executed.
This must be handled by the military courts under the UCMJ where the federal courts have no jurisdiction and all of the corrupt Obama jusges and lawyers’ hands are tied. And the corrupted US Congress is powerless to intervene The country would need to be under a declaration of Martial Law.
Tony West is nothing if not a racist white-hater of the first magnitude. He should have been indicted prosecuted and convicted and jailed years ago but instead he is in the process of influencing and profiting from having his hands around the federal government to a greater degree than he had in the Obama Administration.
The only thing he is good at is obtaining increased rights and privileges for third world criminals and raiding the US treasury to re-distribute billions of US taxpayer dollars to black and hispanic families.
This should be the biggest scandal in the news and Congress should be all over this. But guess what it isn’t going to happen.
If the US military is incapable of taking this on we are completely lost as a nation and the white race will be on its way to the dustbin of history.
This thread should have had over 1,000 comments by now but—as usual these days— maybe 10 or 20 at best.
Unbelievable.
It should, but if these stories never see the light of day in the corporate media, what’s the point?
JWalkerLindh was in the bunch that killed CIA man Mike Spann
These bleedingheart terrorist detainee lawsuits that Tony West wanted to help terrorists file would probably be settled using the Treasury’s “Judgement Fund” which West headed during the Biden Administration.
This is the same fund used to finance John Kerry’s Iran Deal.
Speaking of Kamala Harris’s brother in law Tony West’s law firm :
Judith Keyes of Morrison & Foerster Image: Jason Doiy / The Recorder
Boston in Common Attorneys from around the country, many with ties to Kerry or Edwards, to appear on the Democratic National Convention floor
Brenda Sandburg The Recorder 07-27-2004
The first time Judith Droz Keyes attended a Democratic National Convention it was 1968, and she never made it inside.
She was among the throngs of anti-war protesters who were pummeled outside the convention by the Chicago police. An officer on a horse struck Keyes on the head with his baton, she says. At the time, her husband was serving in Vietnam as a swift boat officer, in the same squadron as John Kerry. Eight months later, Keyes’ husband died, spurring her to become more active in the anti-war movement. That’s where she met Kerry.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1090180176989
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