Shearman & Sterling pro bono work on behalf of Guantanamo detainees

Several attorneys working for Shearman & Sterling were prominent in the efforts coordinated by the Center for Constitutional Rights to provide pro bono legal aid for the Guantanamo captives.

In the fall of 2006 a Bush Presidency appointee, Cully Stimson, at the time the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, questioned the patriotism of lawyers who aided Guantanamo captives, and suggested that large Corporate clients should boycott the services of firms whose lawyers worked on behalf of Guantanamo captives. (Stimson himself is a lawyer by training and former U.S. Navy JAG officer.) Stimson's remarks were widely criticized. Stimson offered a partial apology for his comments. Nonetheless, this did not stem the controversy, and Stimson ultimately resigned from his appointment.

[...] attack

In April 2008, Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi, one of the team's clients who had been released, had conducted a [...] attack against Iraqi security forces in Mosul, Iraq.