As a prerequisite to being permitted to continue her work as Rahman’s attorney, Stewart signed an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to pass no information to or from her client other than what was legally necessary. As Sharon Chadha observes in The Middle East Quarterly: “Since the sheikh had already been convicted and had exhausted his appeals, Stewart’s role should have been limited to assuring his humane treatment in prison.”
But Stewart chose not to keep her end of the bargain. Instead, she repeatedly did precisely the things she had sworn never again to do. Her accomplices were the sheikh’s court-appointed translator Mohammad Yousry and a paralegal named Ahmed Sattar. Incontrovertible proof of their crimes was provided by secret FBI surveillance videos of Rahman’s prison visits with Stewart and the others. On these videos, Yousry can be seen conveying messages to and from Rahman while Stewart created what the prosecution described as “covering noises” by means of such actions as shaking a water jar, tapping on a table, and uttering random comments while pretending to take notes in her legal pad. The affidavit against Stewart stated that she, along with Rahman and Yousry, had “shared laughs” about the “fine acting job that [Stewart] was doing in successfully tricking the guards.” At one point, a cackling Stewart told her accomplices: “I can get an award for it.”
Perhaps Stewart’s most brazen transgression occurred in June 2000, when, in open defiance of the restriction against her facilitating communications to and from her client, she told the Reuters news service that Rahman had decided to withdraw his support for the cease-fire that the Islamic Group had negotiated with the Egyptian government three years earlier. In other words, the sheikh wanted his followers back home to resume their terrorist operations. One of their more noteworthy previous operations had taken place in 1997 (just before the cease-fire went into effect), when a number of Rahman’s followers, in an effort to force the U.S. government to release their leader, gunned down 62 people at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt.
Stewart also smuggled out of Rahman’s prison cell a fatwa (religious edict) that bore the sheikh’s name and exhorted “the Muslim nation to fight the Jews and to kill them wherever they are” by means of violent “Jihad.” In that same fatwa, Rahman instructed his fellow Muslims to help him win his freedom by killing Americans, “to treat them with brutality,” and to “drown their ships, shoot down their airplanes, kill them on earth, in the sea or in the sky, kill them everywhere you find them.”
Stewart’s support for Rahman’s vile objectives was clearly heartfelt. In a May 2000 conversation that the FBI secretly taped, Yousry informed the sheikh and Stewart that the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf Group had kidnapped some tourists in the Philippines and was threatening to execute them if Rahman were not set free. “Good for them,” Stewart retorted in praise of this “very, very crucial” development that she hoped would elevate Rahman’s standing among jihadists.
It is not at all surprising that Stewart should have felt an affinity for Rahman’s murderous goals. Indeed, she once told an interviewer: “I hope that my politics are represented in the people I actually represent.” It is worth noting that Stewart, who is a Maoist, has also defended such America-hating luminaries as Weather Underground bomber Kathy Boudin and Black Panther Willie Holder. More recently, Stewart has hailed Muslim jihadists as “forces of national liberation,” and has characterized “Islamic revolution” as “the only hope” for the oppressed peoples of the Middle East. “If their people see that they want to reinstate a system of law [Sharia] and government that was in existence for hundreds and hundreds of years, I’m not going to judge,” Stewart says.
Moments before Judge Koeltl issued his ruling on Ms. Stewart’s extended sentence last Thursday, the defendant projected none of the smugness, the glibness, or the indomitable self-assurance that has long been her trademark. Suddenly, needing mercy, she was as meek as a lamb, telling the judge that she had found prison life to be much harsher than she could ever have imagined:
Over the last eight months, prison has diminished me. Daily, I confront the prospect of death, losing pieces of my personality. My sense of inquiry and compassion have turned to weariness, my thoughts regimented, my world, once filled with love and laughter and family, slipping away from me.
People like Lynne Stewart, who have successfully gamed the legal system for years and decades on end, commonly grow to believe that they themselves will remain forever beyond the reach of actual justice. When that fantasy eventually crumbles, their smug smiles vanish rather quickly; they are in uncharted territory. Lynne Stewart’s day came last Thursday.
It's nice to have a small victory in the ongoing 'war on terror.' I know it's not much in the big picture but somehow it's very psychologically satisfying to know that smirking, repulsive toad is going for a dime. Try doing that on your fat, ugly head, comrade!
Couldn't happen to a more deserving person! Imagine how that poor judge felt, realizing he had been played for a fool by someone who he had great respect & admiration for (and likely shared some of the same leftist sympathies).
this piece of excrement finally got its comeuppance.
keep this appalling and awful traitor locked up
Its always a good feeling seeing justice being served on those so arrogant as this. Bravo to the judge for seeing the error of his ways and perhaps learning his own lessons from this!
What i fins so disturbing about this incident is no one died from what she did. However, by revealing Valerie Plame Wilson identity, Cheney and Libby engaged in an activity leading directly to the death of American agent overseas. I think if Stewart gets 10 years for dumbs comments, these two state official terrorists should be put to death.
Oh wait, thats right, conservative terrorists who murder Americans tying to stop the Iranians nuclear program get off with a slap on the wrist. Bad on me, I forgot the rule. Dumb statements by human rights lawyer, 10 years. Murder of Americans and treason by conservatives, nothing.
Tony: your comments are blatant lies. We know who revealed Plame's identity, and it was NOT Cheney or Libby; the prosecutor know all along that its was Colin Powell's right-hand-man. You are either deliberately lying or totally and proudly ignorant of the facts, facts that are easily obtainable in the media.
Yet, you do speak one "truth" that reveals your under-lying agenda = "what I fins (sic) so disturbing is that no one died from what she said" which I read as your disappointment that she was unable to get someone killed; would you be happier to know that her treason lead directly to deaths caused by islanic terrorists?
What I find disturbing is that many people may actually have died directly because of what she did, so at least you can take solace in your mutual love of terrorist murderers.
Why don't you get off your boring "Cheney/Libby" schtick actually read the article: she was intentionally breaking the law and deceiving the court in order to promote the agenda of a top terror planner and death fatwas were the specific items she delivered. Why would you have ANY sympathy?
Now, if they could just get Ramsey Clark for being an unregistered foreign agent of Iraq and find the money trail to ANSWER.
Tony, you are an intellectually and morally bankrupt MSM brainwashed moron. Go back to your hate-America bong and leave the world's security to the adults.
Someone ought to wipe that 5 O'Clock shadow off her face too…get the girl a shave for God's sake.
Hoist by her own petard!!
It feels so good to see that scum get what she deserves…
Her world once filled with love & laughter now slipping away from her? Gee, likely the sentiments of every victim of Islamists….
Fantastic article. Too bad we didn't have some pictures. I'd love to have seen this monstrous woman's reactions as she heard the words come from the judge's mouth.
Hope she enjoys standing on her head for a bit longer.
what an appalling and horrible traitorous person…..a "hero" to the leftist wackos.
Let's just hope that the current WH occupant does not pardon her citing poor health or something like that. After all, both Stewart and Obama are close to the Weather Underground group. This is not far-fetched.
I had not initially thought of this but you are right. OBH will pardon her, and would guess this will be just before he leaves office. We can hope this will be in 2012.
I hear that she has prostate cancer…
well, she certainly has "balls" to be such an obvious lawbreaker and gloat about her original short sentence.
The world of liberalism is filled with sluts like this. She has no intention of ever changing her ways. After the sentence she should be expelled from the USA for good. Same thing with Ramsey Clark. A complete waste.
As much as it is nice to see her smug mouth being shut, I would like to see her in prison for another 50 years. No punishment too harsh for traitors.
Given that the radical left occupies both the White House and the MSM, don't be too shocked to see a pardon from Hussein. After all, the only way anyone would HEAR about it would be if Rush should see her at a supermarket!
That is very good news. Can we now get serious about cleaning up the mess in Washington?
I guess the irony is lost on Ms Stewart that the very people she helps would kill her in a New York minute because she is a woman. She's not a "useful idiot", she's just an idiot. Hopefully she can now end her life behind bars where she belongs and become the martyr she has so often professed to being. Lynn, you talked the talk and now it's time to walk the walk. Good ridance hag! BTW, when you meet in Hell you can tell William Cuntsler I said howdy.
I showed our children how scary movies are made—as with blue hues, and lights so placed to cast particular kinds of shadows—and in that same vein, before Lynne's trial, in the Portland State University Students Lobby, I took my sons to see her billing, roughly, something on the order of, how the dirty rotten stinking federal government is railroading Lynne Stewart—we wore our blue corduroy Desert Storm caps. I was amazed at how easily Lynne's side of things coincided with the federals view, and of how easy the case appeared to be proven from her own mouth.
And yet, however those things might have been, the shocking thing—in both their appearances and and words—was the weak and shallow base represented in the anarchist scallawags who turned out to support her
In all, Lynne's is a personality type which—myself, a 30+ years, Oregon resident—I would say is common among the creatures inhabiting the left coast—at the very least, so in Portland. In her ready smile and quick mannerisms consistent with her glib speech, she seemed to present herself and her friends as a few squirrels glad for their own pile of nuts, watching our national government as a child with his cookie, knowing that, should the cookie break, why then would there be some pieces for them—the while, apprehending so little of the gravity of the law, and nothing of the probity which was her duty, and nothing of the momentous nature of the things in the gravamen—like a squirrel, . . . so much like a squirrel, . . . but trapped in a human body, . . . and, dangerous, . . .
Now for the arrogant, smug, gloating, know-it-all in the White House!!!
This B___h belongs in prison! At 70, hopefully this will be a life sentence!!
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She likes to spend time on her head, why not make her stand on it for the ten years she has to serve? Sounds like the right thing to do. Especially after her big mouth getting her into trouble.
I have to confess a certain level of satisfaction seeing her sentence increased to 10 years. This arrogant commie piece of garbage thought he had foiled the system, instead she's going to sit in prison for a while yet. You reap what you sow.
As a couple of poster have already, Stewart is a prime candidate for a pardon from our "President". I'd be surprised if he didn't pardon his fellow traveller.
Like many leftists, looks like she needs a bath, haircut, and a good shave.
"Be sure your sin will find you out" eventually.
Well the poor dear soul, in the slammer for another eight years, how delightful.
If she cared for the innocent lives her clients were destroying she might have
lent a hand in exposing their evil plans and thus changing history for the better.
She did not and still gets off light, if only the rest of her crew meets justice somewhere.
It is interesting that leftist activests conjoin with Jihadists in their conduct, one must
wonder how clean Obamas hands are and what his conduct has brought about,
like destroying big parts of America for starters, maybe a judge will be looking in to
this and hopefully one that is not intent on leniency………………………William
The most remarkable and somewhat crazy thing about all this is that this creature was born of Jewish parents and is old enough to know that those who want to kill Jews often find a way to succeed. The fact that such treason is no longer punished with a more fitting and final sentence boggles my mind and I say that as a female attorney, a New Yorker and someone who has seen few who have done such so much harm to women, attorneys and New Yorkers as this [expletive deleted].
In Stewart's case, a statutue was broken without doubt. But by what standard is lesser aiding and abetting of the enemy going to be punished.
Let's think back to 9/10/ 2001. Do any of you remember the crap coming out of the mouths of The Democracy Now ding bats? It was our fault. The roots of their anger is under our door posts. Blada Blada right on through the hand wringing over Abu Grab.
During WW II, anybody who wanted to show boat their warped personality by supporting the Nazis or Tojo was locked up and the key thrown away.
Too bad our hearts have weakened so fast. How soon we forget that in war, the government's role in protecting its citizens is paramount.
lol…this is a classic case of digging your own grave with your own tongue . now anbout that judge who gave the 28 month sentence …….
A smile for the occasion.
Hopefully this will be the last time anyone hears from her.
She needs a razor, seriously.
The most appropriate word is in German: schadenfreude
" surrounded by love laughter and family" ? She has a new family now. She feels diminished. now? Let her end her days becoming smaller and smaller, wolfing down cheese sandwiches, and asking to go to the yard. She betrayed her nation, her religion, AND her family. I only hope she doesn't get protective custody. Soon, she'll be joining her mentor William Kunstler in hell. Do not stop, do not pass go, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL AND THEN ON TO HELL. TO THE LEVEL OF TRAITORS.
Nah, if they gave her a razor she'd probably try to use it to commit suicide. I'd rather she rot in jail for another eight years.
The only way we are going to save America is to downsize Lawyers, they have a hand in EVERYTHING even where they are NOT NEEDED. They are the scum of the earth. Used to be a hand shake was a done deal now that lawyers have taken over even contracts aren't any good. Because of loopholes. Lawyers are leeches and the ticks to manking, taking money that is NOT worked for, and they have you believing that we can't get along without them. Writing 2500 pages of health care that only they can understand. If you go to any law school and follow any class after graduation within three years 1/3 are disbarred, and the rest hasn't been caught, YET. They are NOT for the little man, every one of them CAN BE BOUGHT, so think about it when you want to send a Lawyer to Washington. Every time you do, it costs the American Taxpayer MILLIONS, and you can NEVER get rid of them.
She/he/it is ugly outside but uglier inside.
Quite simply: rot in prison.
The problem is that this is just one crooked lawyer that has been reprimanded, and jailed there are at least 100 in Washington offices in the Senate and Congress. Until we wise up and QUIT sending lawyers to Washington we will be in a mess. Working men need to be in office of the Senate and Congress, lawyers put NO-ONE to work they put people OUT OF WORK. Lawyers NEVER give they ALWAYS TAKE, and they are for the richest not the poorest, because they want BIG money. Poor people are outbid at every turn, so STOP SENDING LAWYERS TO WASHINGTON.
Unfortunately, not even the radical religion she so favors offers hope; Islam despises radical women.
Jason
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