By now everyone should know that
Patrick Fitzgerald was chosen as "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal. But the runner up is someone else who gives Bush heartburn - Navy Lieutenant Commander
Charles Swift, the military lawyer provided for Salim Hamdan who is taking his responsibility to defend his client more seriously than anyone expected. This is quite a departure from what I've come to expect from the relentlessly corporate NLJ.
Nor does Swift, who commented for the article written about him (unlike Fitzgerald), pull his punches:
From the beginning, the U.S. military commissions established to try enemy combatants held at Guantánamo Bay had an "Alice in Wonderland" quality, said Navy Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift. "Execution now. Trial later," he said, paraphrasing the queen's commands.
Tellingly, the Powers That Be had this to say about Swift:
A Department of Justice spokesman had "no comment" for this story.
Here's hoping next year's pick and runner up are the lead prosecutors in the Jack Abramoff investigation and Bush's impeachment trial!