User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/ready/Joshua L. Dratel 2

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The article on Joshua L. Dratel was one of several all nominated essentially at once. After the nomination I expanded this article. I honestly believe that some of those who weighed in on the afd did not attend to the expansion.

I thought Dratel's authorship of two significant books would be sufficient to preserve the article. But an administrator concluded that the consensus of the discussion was for deletion.

I believe Dratel is clearly worth covering, as these references show

2001

 * Dratel defended Wadih El-Hage against charges he played a role in US embassy bombings.

2002

 * In 2002 Dratel filed a brief opposing the US Patriot Act, on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

2003

 * In April 2003 law students at the City University of New York triggered a dispute with the law school's Dean, for choosing to give Lynne Stewart for an annual award. The New York Times chose to quote Dratel, who they described as "vice president of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers":
 * In June 2003 Linda Greenhouse, writing in the New York Times, chose to quote Dratel's reaction to a Supreme Court ruling on whether suspects can be forced to consume sedatives and other psychoactive drugs during their trials.
 * In July 2003 Dratel was interviewed on Fox News daytime, about Manuel Gehring, an accountant he represented, who was accused of kidnapping and murdering his children.
 * In December 2003 the San Francisco Chronicle chose to quote Dratel on new relaxed FBI rules on warrants and witetaps :

2004

 * In July 2004 Dratel responded to DoD assertions on the Military Commissions, stating:
 * In August 2004 Dratel mounted a vigourous challenge to Peter Brownback and the other members of David Hick's first military commission.
 * In September 2004, commenting on Hicks's decision not to attend his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, asserted :

2005

 * In January 2005 the Los Angeles Times chose to quote Dratel's opinion of the appointment of Michael Chertoff as Director of the Department of Homeland Security.
 * The Times of London reviewed The Torture Papers, a book Dratel cowrote with Karen J. Greenberg.
 * The Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed Dratel about the state of David Hicks's case on February 9, 2005.
 * In October 2005 Time magazine chose to quote Dratel about the appointment of Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the Plame/Wilson affair.
 * A profile in Lawyers Weekly in 2005 stated he had made a record number of trips to Guantanamo.

2006

 * In 2006 a passing comment David Hicks made suggested that Hicks was entitled to apply for UK citizenship.
 * Dratel defended Russell Tice a whistleblower from within the National Security Agency.
 * Dratel defended Lynne Stewart, an attorney for the "blind sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted of a role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The Sheikh was alleged to have made statements that were the inspiration for the 1993 and other attacks.  Stewart was convicted of smuggling out messages to the Sheikh followers.  According to the New York Times Dratel :
 * Dratel was one of the lawyers who defended the ACLU when the Bush administration tried to clawback a document from them.

2007

 * In February 2007 Dratel commented on Hicks's claim that Guantanamo guards had posted a 3 x 7 foot poster of Saddam Hussein's hanging.
 * The Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed Dratel about the strange circumstances of David Hicks's guilty plea on March 27, 2007.       The Australian noted:
 * In December 2007 Time magazine chose to quote Dratel in the Florida sleeper cell trials.

2009

 * Dratel represented Anthony Casso, a mobster who confessed to fifteen murders, and who was convicted of a role in the theft of the large cache of drugs whose capture was fictionalized in the film The French Connection.
 * Newsday quoted his opinion on "honest services fraud", characterizing him as a ''"Seasoned New York City attorney".

2010
The paper "Portraits of Resistance: Lawyer responses to unjust proceedings" contained over three dozen references to Dratel on half a dozen pages.

2011
The ''Chicago Tribune quoted Dratel on May 21 2011.
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 * "You have to have an intellectual curiosity about these kinds of cases There is a tremendous amount of reading. You have to know about history, about culture, about religion, about politics. It makes it fascinating in that way."
 * "The government is at a big advantage in these cases. They have agents and resources that are much more significant than in an ordinary case."
 * "The government is at a big advantage in these cases. They have agents and resources that are much more significant than in an ordinary case."


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2013
Defended Sabirhan Hasanoff.