Lawyer for American Taliban to lead suit against Arizona

Tony West, the man who defended John Walker Lindh, aka: the American Taliban, has been tapped by the Obama Administration to lead the government’s legal challenge against the State of Arizona over their new illegal immigration law.  West is a member of the “Gitmo-9” – a group of attorneys working at the Department of Justice who had formerly defended captured terrorists.

Lindh, an American citizen who converted to radical Islam as a teenager, was captured on the battlefield in 2001 fighting with the Taliban against American troops in Afghanistan.  West successfully plea bargained Lindh’s case limiting his sentence to just 20 years rather than life.  West followed up with a petition for clemency in the name of “mercy” to George W. Bush, which Bush denied.   Watch for West to renew his efforts for a Presidential Pardon on behalf of Lindh before Obama exits the White House.

West is married to Maya Harris, the former executive director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.  According to examier.com, she is currently the VP for Peace and Social Justice at the Ford Foundation.  The Ford Foundation gave $200,000 to MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund) who joined the ACLU in its lawsuit against Arizona.

Further, West’s sister-in-law is the District Attorney in San Francisco, where she has perpetuated that city’s notorious sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants, including taxpayer funded training programs to assist them in getting American jobs.   

Typically, lawyers will recuse themselves from a case in which their objectivity may be questioned due to personal involvement or prejudice.  Apparently, however, in the upside down, perverted world of the Obama Administration conflicts of interest are now assets instead of liabilities.