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A lawyer is a hired gun, sure, but a hired gun whose first allegiance is supposed to be to the rule of law and whose second is to the client. Clients should be represented within the rule of law.
A lawyer who places his client above the rule of law becomes a whaddya-call-um, “mouthpiece.”
These guys were mouthpieces:
The coalition, called Velvet Revolution, asked the bar associations in four states and the District of Columbia to disbar the lawyers, saying their actions violated the rules of professional responsibility by approving interrogation methods, including waterboarding, that constituted illegal torture.
By writing or approving legal opinions justifying such methods, the advocates say, the Bush administration lawyers violated the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture and American law.
