NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Legal Briefs
American lawyers defending terrorists being detained Gitmo have claimed that the harsh conditions are causing their clients to go insane. The insanity must be communicable. The Wall Street Journal’s “Law Blog” reports that at a press conference in Sanaa, Yemen, Covington & Burling partner David Remes, who is representing 15 of the roughly 100 Yemeni detainees at Gitmo, stripped to his skivvies to demonstrate the body searches to which the prisoners are subjected several times daily: “[T]he men are required to pull their shirts up to their chest, drop their pants, and then the corn-fed U.S. military sticks their thumbs under the prisoner’s underwear band and circles the prisoner’s torsos.” Remes added, “[T]his is a society where the rule of morality is so strict - I wanted to drive home the degree of humiliation that these searches cause by illustrating a typical body search. … I wish people paid as much attention to the suffering and torment in Guantanamo as they paid to the way I sought to dramatize it.”
The searches are necessary because these battle-hardened terrorists are dangerous killers, who will use anything readily at hand – including bodily waste – to attack the U.S. soldiers guarding them. And Remes’ description of the body search sounds far less humiliating than a typical gynecology or proctology exam.
Editorial Note: His briefs were blindingly white, but no one would mistake David Remes for Harry Reems.
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