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Your Talking Dog has unearthed an early candidate for Appalling Irony of the Year:

The Talking Dog: I understand that in some cases, it has been alleged that detainees have been encouraged not to cooperate with their own attorneys, in particular when their attorneys are Jewish. Can you comment on this?

Thomas Wilner: That issue came up with me. Interestingly, it didn’t get that much play. But my clients were told by interrogators not to trust their lawyer ‘because he’s a Jew’ ”. An interrogator told him ‘why would you trust him– he’s a Jew from a large Jewish law firm– that represents the State of Israel–’

The Talking Dog: Hey, you just picked up another client!

Thomas Wilner: Anyway, this was printed by Nick Lewis in the Times… “Don’t trust him, he’s a Jew,” but it didn’t seem to get that much traction. But one of my clients, Fayez al Kandari, told a female interrogator, code named ‘Megan’ ‘I don’t care who or what he is– there are good people in every religion.’ That was his answer, from the depths of Guantanamo.

That’s from Your TD’s interview with the defense attorney for “twelve Kuwaiti nationals who are, or have been, detained by the United States military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” Your tax dollars at work, people, desperately trying to stoke the antisemitism of Middle Easterners.

Thomas Nephew offers a corroborating link and comments.