Assistance To Guantanamo Captives
Attorneys from Fulbright & Jaworski prepared the habeas corpus captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
Charles "Cully" Stimson, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, stirred controversy when he went on record criticizing the patriotism of law firms that allowed employees to assist Guantanamo captives: "corporate CEOs seeing this should ask firms to choose between lucrative retainers and representing terrorists." Stimson's views were widely criticized. The Pentagon disavowed them and he resigned shortly thereafter.
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