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To: MistyCA; rit; calcowgirl
This isn't a direct link to Kerry, but I notice Ensign's Citizen-Soldier.org is using a lawyer from a Communist legal assistance center that used to defend the VVAW, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR):

http://citizen-soldier.org/CS07-Camilo.html

Efforts by Camilo's defense lawyers to introduce evidence about his legal duty, under international law, not to return to Iraq, were rejected by the military judge. After listening briefly to the proposed testimony of international law professors Jules Lobel and Francis Boyle, the judge ruled that he wouldn't allow the military jury to hear any evidence of international law violations.

Center for Constitutional Rights

Jules Lobel, Vice-President

The other lawyer mentioned, Francis Boyle, has a similar background with Amnesty International and the American Friends Service Committee, and also appears to be anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian:

Israel's Crimes Against Palestinians by Francis A. Boyle

There is more on the CCR in my article. Their founder William Kunstler had a background defending terrorist groups:

Upon returning to the US, the delegation was met by William Kunstler, a lawyer who specialized in defending Communist and terrorist clients (including Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing).

Old VVAW lawyer and current antiwar leader Ramsey Clark also turns up in this context:

Who Is Behind Lynne Stewart?

At Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's trial, what we saw in both FBI and CIA files, and this is their phrase, 'the greatest threat to the international and domestic security of the United States is Islamic fundamentalism.'. . .It was Ramsey Clark who urged Lynne Stewart to become the blind sheik's defense attorney. Clark's two previous choices, Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys and noted defenders of criminals and terrorists — including the Palestinian assassin of Meyer Kahane — William Kuntsler and Ron Kuby, had recused themselves.

320 posted on 10/18/2004 12:54:06 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: MistyCA; rit
Speaking of law firms, it looks like several firms are also major contributors to Kerry's Citizen Soldier Fund--might be worth checking into their backgrounds:

Citizen Soldier Fund - Nonfederal Account: Contributors of at Least $10,000

Ferrell Schultz Carter Zumpano & Fertel $59,000

Clifford Law Offices $50,000

Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand/Piper Rudnick $16,000

322 posted on 10/18/2004 1:08:55 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Thank you! By now you must be considered an expert in this Kerry creature! I am really hoping you are writing a book about this!


325 posted on 10/18/2004 1:53:19 AM PDT by MistyCA (I think if you were to ask Edward's wife, who is fat, she would tell you she is being who she is...)
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