Terrorist Lawyer convicted, lefties protest

Story: "In 1996, Rahman was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the first attack on the World Trade Center, in 1993, and for his part in failed plots to blow up the United Nations building and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels in New York.

After his conviction, Rahman's followers threatened a series of terrorist attacks against American targets unless he were released. In 1998, the U.S. government reportedly had intelligence that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were plotting to hijack aircraft in the United States in order to demand freedom for Rahman and other convicted terrorists.

Because of those threats, the government issued a special order that the imprisoned Rahman not be allowed to communicate with his followers, to prevent his inciting them to further violence. He was allowed to communicate only with his wife and with his lawyers, who were not allowed to relay his wishes to his followers.

Stewart promised to abide by those rules. But at her trial, the government produced evidence showing that Stewart and two codefendants on a number of occasions used their privileged access to Rahman to help transmit Rahman's orders to his followers in the Islamic Group.
On February 10, Stewart was convicted on two counts of providing material aid to terrorists and three counts of lying to federal investigators. She is planning to appeal.

Before the verdict, officials of the Open Society Institute characterized Stewart's work as that of a "human rights defender." In an October 2004 speech in Norway, Gara LaMarche, head of OSI programs in the United States, said, "The right to counsel, and its erosion in the United States since September 11, strikes with particular force at the role of human rights defenders. One troubling trend has been the arrest and prosecution of lawyers and other defenders as 'material witnesses' to terrorism. These include Lynne Stewart, attorney for Sheik Abdel Rahman..."

So basically, this woman compleatly violated the justice system, and brought a terrorist back into contact with his islamic breathren, potientally spawning violence around the world. And not just one person, but 3 people. And not just one or two times, but repeatetly.
And she/they gets 28 months. TWENTY-EIGHT MONTHS???? FOR ASSISTING A TERRORIST???
I don't care if she represents him legally, but to put him back in contact with his underlings, so as to plot more terror, is quite simply criminal, almost to the degree of treason.
And to protect this person as a civil rights warrior? This is beyond the pale, even for the left.
I should know better, but even coming from the moveon.org crowd, this is astounding.