affairs, he got a little carried away on a talk radio program in washington, d.c. his name was charles stimson. as a serving assistant secretary of defense he went on and suggested it was a scandal that lawyers were involved in these cases. that top lawyers were involved in litigating these new questions around prisoners and the war on terror. he suggested that maybe corporate america should start boycotting all the big law farms who are letting their lawyers work on these constitutional cases. which honestly forgive me but is an idiotic argument. unless you think john adams was a benedict arnold for representing those brits. how dare he. unless you think john roberts is how on the side of a mass murderer because he took part in a case that related to a mass murder. it was a ridiculous argument to say it was a scandal. that there were lawyers and american law firms in litigating these cases around the rights of detainees at guantanamo. to his credit he quickly figured out he made a ridiculous