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Excellent story in Esquire on how an Israeli-supporting, Jewish corporate lawyer who voted for President George W. Bush and supported the war came to defend an accused terrorist at Gitmo:
He knew the CCR's reputation for liberal activism, and he didn't want any part of that. But as the president he supported prosecuted the war on terror that he also supported, something tectonic shifted in my father. American justice is based on first principles, he said. And among these is that we treat prisoners - people in a position of powerlessness - humanely. And that they can question their imprisonment. And that we don't presume guilt. As an American, the pictures from Abu Ghraib made my father ill. As a lawyer, they made him ashamed. He told the CCR he'd do it. And that's how he got to be here in this room, with this prisoner.
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