Lynne Stewart, the attorney who was charged by the US Justice department of collaborating in terrorism with her client, the blind cleric Shiek Omar Abdel Rahman, was today convicted.

This trial, in which the Justice Department pulled out all the stops in not allowing this woman to be fairly represented, sends an eerie message to trial lawyers everywhere to play by the Bush Justice Department's rules or face sidbarment, fines and imprisionment.

Stewart, age 65, faces up to 26 years in prison for th crime of defending her client.

The Bush Justice Department is out of control. In the face ot court decisions ordering it to provide legal services to detainess at Guantanemo Bay, it has flicked it's nose. It has flicked it's nose at the Geneva Accords.

Ms. Stewart's conviction today may mark the day when our judiciary gave in to the brownshirts...

Bobert