{"id":48719,"date":"2013-07-08T20:39:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/another-war-on-terror-casualty\/48719\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T20:53:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T19:53:24","slug":"another-war-on-terror-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/another-war-on-terror-casualty\/","title":{"rendered":"Another \u2018War on Terror\u2019 Casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>William Boardman<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2013\/07\/06\/another-war-on-terror-casualty\/\" target=\"_blank\">consortiumnews.com<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 8, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Lynne Stewart aggressively defended alleged terrorists, making her a target of President George W. Bush\u2019s \u201cwar on terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After 9\/11, she was prosecuted for violating special security rules for dealing with a client \u2014 and is now dying of cancer in federal prison, denied compassionate release, reports William Boardman.<\/p>\n<p>In the American justice system, even when a prisoner is not sentenced to be executed, the bureaucrats of the U.S. Justice Department\u2019s Federal Bureau of Prisons still have extrajudicial ways of making sure a politically targeted prisoner will die in jail.<\/p>\n<p>A recent example: Kathleen Kenney, general counsel for the Bureau of Prisons, informed the husband of Lynne Stewart, a 73-year old woman who is dying of cancer, that her request for \u201ccompassionate release\u201d was denied because her \u201chealth is improving \u2026 she does not present circumstances considered extraordinary and compelling \u2026 at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imprisoned attorney Lynne Stewart, photographed in June 2013. (Credit: lynnestewart.org)<\/p>\n<p>From her office in Washington D.C., Kenney countermanded the April 26 recommendation of the prison warden at the Carswell Federal Medical Center at the Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, Texas, that Stewart be released.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2013\/07\/06\/another-war-on-terror-casualty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Boardman consortiumnews.com July 8, 2013 Attorney Lynne Stewart aggressively defended alleged terrorists, making her a target of President George W. Bush\u2019s \u201cwar on terror.\u201d After 9\/11, she was prosecuted for violating special security rules for dealing with a client \u2014 and is now dying of cancer in federal prison, denied compassionate release, reports William [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}