At least two Obama White House lawyers represented Guantanamo detainees
March 04, 2010
Stone Prosecutor Jonathan Kravis was one of them
hired by Hussein
https://dailycaller.com/2010/03/04/at-least-two-obama-white-house-lawyers-represented-guantanamo-detainees/
At least two attorneys hired to serve in the White House counsel’s office — part of President Obama’s in-house team of legal advisers — represented Guantanamo detainees in their previous legal careers.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Michael Gottlieb — tapped for a White House associate counsel position — was part of the team that successfully argued on behalf of alleged terrorist Lakhdar Boumediene (of Boumediene v. Bush fame).
And while a student at Yale Law School, one of Gottlieb’s fellow associate counsels, Jonathan Kravis, volunteered his time as part of the team that ultimately secured legal victory for alleged Yemeni terrorist Salim Hamdan in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Both Hamdan and Boumediene were landmark Supreme Court cases involving the legal rights of enemy combatants and the constitutionality of the procedures used to detain and try them. The first involved Salim Hamdan — a Yemeni held at Guantanamo after having been captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 — who was charged with committing acts in furtherance of a terrorist conspiracy, including serving as Osama bin Laden’s personal bodyguard and driver, and training at al Qaida camps. Hamdan and his lawyers — led by the Obama administration’s current principal deputy solicitor general, Neal Katyal — argued that the military tribunal convened to try Hamdan was unconstitutional. In 2006, the Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan’s favor, forcing Congress to enact legislation approving of the military commissions.