Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel

[loupaulsen at attbi.com]

> 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

What? The question of the guy's actual guilt or innocence "doesn't really 
matter"?  Are you saying it's just that anyone and anything he's connected to 
can be smeared now, so he was unwise to do it? 

Of course RC is not a member of WWP.  Why would you think he was?

lp