Not all of the appointees mentioned were simply criminal defense lawyers just out to make a buck. Jennifer Daskal spent years at Human Rights Watch criticizing every aspect of GWB’s war on terror. An advocate with a very slanted take on things if you read through the many links at HRW about her. Ha. She whined that Bush should shut down Gitmo and she whined when some of the inmate that we let go back home to Algeria promptly disappeared into the prison system there.

“The United States will not solve the Guantanamo problem by sending detainees from one unfair system to another,” Daskal said. “Washington should demand that Algeria comply with its own laws..

Good luck with that.