The End of the Right to Counsel?

By Scott Horton Antiwar.com March 09, 2005 What if the government arrested you on terrorism charges? What if your lawyer was afraid to zealously defend you (as required by the Model Rules)? What if your lawyer was so afraid, he wouldn’t even tell you that he wasn’t able to zealously defend you? This is the direction American criminal law is taking, according to defense attorney and civil rights activist Elaine Cassel, author of The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled...

Bush Keeps Fueling the Fire

By Scott Horton Antiwar.com March 04, 2005 When Seymour Hersh last appeared on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, he explained the administration’s foreign policy agenda to host Jon Stewart. After noting that this agenda was the work of the 'neoconservatives, the Wolfowitzes, the people who work at the Pentagon, the civilians,' and their belief that Iran 'shouldn’t exist,' Stewart began to seem a bit incredulous. Hersh took this opportunity to make it clear that he has every reason to believe...