Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 20 12:39:10 PST 2003


loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote:


>Just so we are all on the same page, so far as this article says, RC is not
>the lawyer for Rwandan government or political officials, or a 'gang', or all
>Hutus who killed Tutsis considered as a whole. He is the lawyer for this one
>clergyman, the elder Ntakirutimana, who was extradited from Texas. The
>article says that he was charged with driving other people around. I take it
>that you are convinced there is no question of fact about whether he did it,
>or his murderous intent, or whether he did it under duress?

That doesn't really matter. I think it's madness for someone of Clark's prominence to take on a case like that. It discredits everything else he does - which includes ANSWER and IAC, not to mention WWP, of which I assume he's a member.

Doug



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