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>statement by Clive Stafford Smith today in Assange trial.
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STATEMENT OF CLIVE A. STAFFORD SMITH
I, Clive A. Stafford Smith, JD, OBE, of Bridport, Dorset, will say as follows:
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I am a dual U.K.-U.S. national. I was born in Cambridge in 1959, and spent 1978-2004 in the U.S.,
and have been domiciled in the U.K. since then.
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I received my law degree from Columbia Law School in New York in 1984. I am a lawyer licenced to practice
in the state of Louisiana. I am amember of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States,
as well as of various among the inferior U.S. Federal Courts.
I have been licenced to practice in the U.S. since 1984.
Item # 41
41.None of this material can be found in the Wikileaks materials.
Thus, what Wikileaks allegedly let into the public domain was, in many ways,
the best face that the U.S. government could put on the crimes it had committed
against the Guantánamo prisoners.
I even wondered whether they had been intentionally leaked to try to justify
the existence of the prison.
It was only when we
– the lawyers and investigators
– put in countless hours piecing together the broader information that a fuller picture of the crimes became apparent.