Underwear Diplomacy.(The Talk of the Town)(smuggled men's wear)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 29-OCT-07

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The civil-rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith is fond of citing the ironies of the justice system as administered by the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay: cellblocks, for Muslim prisoners, named Romeo and Whiskey; mandatory reporting of traffic accidents involving iguanas on the premises; the ferry from the civilian portion of the island to the prisoners' zone playing Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" on a continuous loop. Stafford Smith represents thirty-five inmates at Guantanamo and has made nineteen trips there in the past three years, but perhaps the most bizarre of his experiences occurred in August, when, as the Washington Post reported, he received a letter from the United States Navy suggesting that he and another attorney had smuggled...

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