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Padilla Sues Former U.S. Lawyer
Over Detention
ADAM LIPTAK
NY
TImes
Saturday January 5, 2007
Jose Padilla, the American citizen who was held
in military detention for more than three years as an enemy combatant,
filed a lawsuit Friday against a former Justice Department lawyer
who helped provide the legal justifications for what the suit
says was Mr. Padilla’s unconstitutional confinement and
“gross physical and psychological abuse.”
The lawyer, John C. Yoo, now a law professor at the University
of California, Berkeley, wrote or helped prepare a series of legal
memorandums on interrogations and the treatment of detainees after
the Sept. 11 attacks.
A lawyer for Mr. Yoo, Eric M. George, called Mr. Padilla’s
suit “a political diatribe” that “belongs, at
best, in a journal, not before a federal court.”
Mr. Padilla, 37, was transferred from military custody to the
criminal justice system in 2006, and in August he was convicted
of terrorism-related charges in Miami. He awaits sentencing.
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The new lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, seeks
only one dollar in damages. “That’s what Padilla directed
us to ask for,” said Jonathan M. Freiman, one of Mr. Padilla’s
lawyers. “At bottom, this isn’t about money. It’s
about right and wrong.”
Last February, Mr. Padilla filed a separate suit in federal court
in South Carolina against scores of current and former officials,
including Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, and
John Ashcroft, the former attorney general. That suit concerned
the conditions of his confinement at the Navy brig in Charleston,
S.C.
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