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March 5, 2010
Gitmo Terrorists and Their Lawyers Will Be Living Large at Taxpayer Expense
Posted by Dave Blount at March 5, 2010 11:13 AM
The folks running our Justice Department have been willing to defend the "worst of the worst" terrorists at Gitmo for free out of a sense of brotherhood, but not all lawyers are so generous with their time. Fortunately the taxpayer has deep pockets, because they'll be running up some hefty bills:
The Telegraph and The Sun (see here and here) are reporting that British taxpayers are expected to shell out £30 million to lawyers who are working on an inquiry into the former detainees' torture allegations. The inquiry is expected to last seven years (!), during which time the lawyers will review documents totaling hundreds of thousands of pages and rack up massive legal bills in the process.
According to the Telegraph, lawyers working for the government's defense are expected to take in £20 million, while lawyers working for the former detainees will take in approximately £10 million. Incredibly, the lawyers for the six detainees are being subsidized by British taxpayers.
If they win their cases, the lawyers won't be the only ones riding high on the taxpayer gravy train:
If they win, the six former Gitmo detainees could take in as much as £500,000 each, or £3,000,000 in total — a far cry from the total amount earned by the dozens of lawyers involved, but still a handsome sum.
Terrorism pays, as does moonbattery — at least until the people rebel, or the whole rotten system of moonbat justice falls on its face.
Terrorists will need to keep living in the manner to which Gitmo has accustomed them.
On a tip from TrickleUpPolitics.
