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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
While I agree that there is something different about the government doing it, I'm not sure the difference is that significant. The power of the private sector, one way or the other, is often more substantial than the government (who's been more succesful censoring media--the government or advertisers who boycott certain shows?). Bear in mind that the list of firms became public because of a FOIA request (albeit from a conservative commentator), not because the government was "outing" these firms.
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Check out the articles I posted to the politics board. They featured a senior government official not only outing firms, but suggesting that maybe they are really being paid by the terrorists, instead of doing pro bono work.
This crap is indefensible. The only way one can reasonable come around to questions the law firms is if one actually believes that everyone at Gitmo is a terrorist. That belief might have been plausible four years ago, but history has not been kind to it.
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