The San Francisco Chronicle refers to Tony West as a "high powered lawyer." I guess in San Francisco it isn't very exciting that the man President Obama has chosen as assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Division is known for defending American Taliban John Walker Lindh: While representing companies in civil and criminal cases, he has also served as a lawyer for Mark Klein, the former AT&T technician who testified that the telecommunications company was sharing customers' phone calls and e-mails with federal agents in the Bush administration's electronic surveillance program.West was co-counsel for former Oakland Raiders receiver Marcus Williams, who in 2005 won $340,000 in damages from ex-teammate Bill Romanowski for punching him during practice.He also took part in the defense of Lindh, the Marin County man who was a 20-year-old Taliban soldier in Afghanistan when he was captured in November 2001. Lindh pleaded guilty in 2002 to...(Read Full Post)