The names of the seven DOJ lawyers who represented or advocated for Guantanamo Bay detainees have been uncovered by Fox News and confirmed by the Justice Department. Looks like great investigative work from Fox. And they play it pretty even, saying that most of the lawyers in question “played only minor and short-lived roles in advocating for detainees,” and pointing out that the Bush Justice Department employed lawyers who had been similarly engaged.

The one exception might be Assistant Attorney General Tony West, who works in DOJ’s Civil Division. West represented “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh for several years.

Some basics on the rest of the lot:

Before joining the Justice Department, Jonathan Cedarbaum, now an official with the Office of Legal Counsel, was part of a “firm-wide effort” to represent six Bosnian-Algerian detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, according to the web site of the firm WilmerHale. . . .
Alongisde Cedarbaum in the Office of Legal Counsel now is Karl Thompson, who while working for the firm O’Melveny & Myers became one of seven attorneys to represent Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 and transferred to Guantanamo Bay. . . .
More than five years before that, Joseph Guerra, now Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Justice Department, was one of five lawyers from the firm Sidley Austin to help three civil liberties groups, including the self-described “conservative” Rutherford Institute, file a detainee-related brief with the Supreme Court. . . .
Similarly, in November 2006, Tali Farhadian, now an official in the Office of the Attorney General, was an attorney with the firm Debevoise & Plimpton when she helped file a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, urging the federal appeals court to hear the case of Ali al-Marri, the only “enemy combatant” at the time being held on U.S. soil.
In addition, Beth Brinkmann, now Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Civil Division, was a partner with the firm Morrison & Foerster when she helped compile at least two Supreme Court briefs dealing with Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Much more here.