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...that I sort of live my life like a first year law student; I get to skim off the interesting issues,” the 1986 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate says. “I don’t have to deal with whatever boring project a client takes in. I have the luxury of only dealing with subjects that engage people.”In person, Toobin seems more like a student than the prominent legal mind that he is. During our interview, he swiveled his chair with the restless energy of a 20-something and laughed away...
...Director Martin A. Nowak, a mathematical biologist, did not respond to repeated phone and e-mail requests for comment over the past several months. Epstein’s attorney refused to allow questions to be directed to his client when contacted on Monday...
...first day of testimony in what is expected to be a four day trial kicked off on Friday before an eight-person jury of both officers and enlisted soldiers, Vela's civilian defense attorney James Culp argued that his client was not guilty of murdering Genei Nesir Khudair Al-Janabi because, at the time Vela pulled the trigger, he was so sleep-deprived and dehydrated after four days of non-stop battlefield action that he was neither in control of his actions nor fully aware of what he was doing. "It was a terrible accident," Culp said outside the courtroom...
Khan's lawyers, armed with more than 500 pages of top-secret notes taken during recent sessions with their client at Guant�namo, will describe his interrogation to the intelligence committee. Though details of Khan's detainment are classified, his lawyers claim that he and others were tortured and videotaped, charges that Hayden and CIA special-interrogation officials deny. Hayden, however, admitted on Feb. 5 that the CIA had used waterboarding against Mohammed and two others...
Khan's lawyers have said their client has gone on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his confinment, and appears pale and gaunt. In the course of meetings with counsel and the Red Cross, Khan also handed over neatly penned, handwritten letters. Several have been made public, after heavy redactions imposed by U.S. military censors. One of Khan's messages begins: "In this letter I am going to mention some of the things I have been through." Then the next 19 lines of text are blacked...