Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clarkis an American lawyer, activist and former federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, notably serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth18 December 1927
CountryUnited States of America
The statutes of the high court in Iraq requires a public hearing but he (the presiding judge) arbitrarily cut it off so that you the press and the rest of the world could not see what he said.
Nearly two months after the brutal execution of one of their members and the summary execution of a second lawyer, and all this time these men and their families have been left essentially unprotected.
What incredible insanity is driving us to hold this child, to glorify the grossness of our materialism as if you can buy the soul of a child,
There will be motions made in court to enlist its support for a thorough investigation. It was selective violence calculated to destroy the ability of the defense to present its defense,
The number of deaths have increased every year,
There is virtually no protection for the nine Iraqi lawyers and their families who are heroically here to defend truth and justice.
It's a creature of the U.S. military occupation, its statute was drafted by the U.S. and rubber-stamped later by people in the U.S. and supported all the time.
If the orders came from higher officials then you have a real problem. I don't see how you go forward with a trial,
I don't know if they'll ever get their act together. I don't think they can. I think there's too much violence in the country, too much division, too much pressure on the court ... The project ought to be abandoned.
This trial can divide or heal. Unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and fair in fact, it will divide rather than reconcile Iraq.
There are many problems with the legality of the court. The United States created the court. The United States spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the court.
We are living in Iraq, a country that I love, in a very dangerous time. Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal.
Today we had further evidence. The court was chaotic about the half the time (with) two people, three people speaking at the same time.
Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.