Steven T. Wax

Steve Wax is a lawyer in the United States State of Oregon. [http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/opb/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=787821 Hi, my name is Steve Wax. I'm 56 years old. I am the head of the Federal Public Defender Office here in Oregon] , "PBS", June 23 2005 [http://oregonhum.org/onprinciple/transcripts/show7-transcript.pdf mirror (.pdf)] ] Wax has headed Oregon's Federal Public Defender Office for 21 years.

Wax is one of seven Oregon lawyers who has volunteered to defend those held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/06/30/a13.lawyerreax.0630.p1.php?section=nation_world Oregon lawyer doesn't expect quick action] , "The Register-Guard", June 30 2006]

Wax defended Brandon Mayfield, the Oregon convert to Islam, who was falsely accused of a role in the Spanish al Qaeda train bombing. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5053007/ FBI apologizes to lawyer held in Madrid bombings: Man feels he was singled out because he’s Muslim] , "MSNBC", May 25 2004]

Wax has published a book based on his experience, entitled: "Kafka comes to America".cite news
url=http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=124659&sid=1&fid=1
title=Author discusses “War on Terror” abuses
publisher=Sutton Register Guard
author=Karen McCowan
date=2008-07-21
accessdate=2008-07-21
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url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002736.html?hpid=sec-artsliving
title=Taking Liberties
publisher=Washington Post
author=Jonathon Fine
date=2008-07-31
page=C02
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote=Wax joins a growing chorus calling for the closure of that prison, though he acknowledges that some Guantanamo prisoners should remain incarcerated. "Kafka Comes to America" says little else about how the U.S. military should handle detainees in the future. But his clients' experiences more than justify Wax's softly stated conclusion: "Of course the threat from terrorists is real, but the unfortunate reality is that the threat from an overzealous response to terrorism is real as well." ]

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