TP: You stated that Messrs. Quijano, Bachrach, and Cooper, "have been actively enlisted in the government's war on terror". As such, you've implied that they could be in danger. "Al Qaeda is well-aware of the identities and the activities of the defense attorneys who served in the 2001 Embassy bombing trial in New York."
I must tell our readers, I do not believe in Al Qaeda. I think "the base" is simply a database of CIA criminals, bogeymen who are useful for perpetuating this false war on terror. Can you tell us what you know of any Al Qaeda operations or assassinations? Also, could you provide some background information on this 2001 Embassy bombing trial?
SF: You may well be right that al Qaeda does not exist. However, Mr. al-Baluchi, or the person who I believe to be Mr. al-Baluchi, seems to think that it does and that it carried out the 9/11 attacks and that he is a member. Maybe he is lying, mistaken, or maybe the person with whom I've been meeting is not really Mr. al-Baluchi and is merely a government plant. Either way, for the purpose of our discussion, I don't think it matters. What does matter is the detainees' opinion of appointed counsel and, irrespective of the existence, or lack thereof, of al Qaeda, the detainees have formed a negative opinion about appointed counsel, and for good reason.
Mr. al-Baluchi is well-aware of the attorneys' behavior both during the 2001 Embassy bombing trial, and at Guantanamo Bay. He is aware of the identities of the attorneys who took part in the 2001 trial, and their performance, which he and his fellow detainees found deficient. That doesn't prove that he is a member of al Qaeda, but it does demonstrate that he was interested in the 2001 trial before his capture in 2003, unless you think the government provided him with the transcripts of the 2001 trial to bone him up on the attorneys or for some other reason. I doubt that.
I don't know anything about al Qaeda assassinations or any other operations, for that matter, except for the 9/11 operation. I do, however, know about the conduct of the attorneys assigned to represent the detainees at Guantanamo Bay before the military commissions, and I now know about Messrs. Quijano, Cooper, and Bachrach's efforts to frustrate Mr. Ghailani's right to counsel in his Southern District matter. Based upon my knowledge of the behavior of the defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay and the behavior of Mr. Ghailani's attorneys, I have reason to believe that any appointed attorney's life would be in danger. There is no greater corruption in my mind than an attorney whose job it is to frustrate his own client's rights. That is the reason these attorneys are on these cases. The detainees know that and are not happy about it, to say the least.
I don't know much about the 2001 Embassy bombing trial. I do know that Mr. al-Baluchi is not happy with the attorneys who served on that matter or those attorneys who represented his cousin Ramzi Yousef. Mr. al-Baluchi's experience with appointed counsel at Guantanamo Bay has only served to confirm his suspicions about government-appointed counsel.
This concludes our interview.
Scott Fenstermaker has been in the news since it was announced that five suspects would stand trial in New York for their part in the 9/11 attacks. He has been slandered by the ACLU, Bill O'Reilly called him a "weasel", and most Americans think he is a traitor. Yet in every venue where he has appeared, Mr. Fenstermaker has defended the rights of these detainees.
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