According to a report, Vice President Kamala Harris’ brother-in-law, who previously defended the infamous “American Taliban,” has joined her newly revamped campaign team.
Tony West, 58, will serve as a “powerful adviser” to Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, according to Axios. This move follows his five-year tenure in the Obama administration’s Justice Department and subsequent high-level positions at PepsiCo and Uber.
West, who is married to Harris’ sister Maya, also worked as an attorney at the San Francisco-based law firm Morrison & Foerster, where he defended the notorious John Walker Lindh, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
John Walker Lindh, who left the U.S. to train with Osama bin Laden and fight for the Taliban in Afghanistan, was captured by American forces as an enemy combatant in November 2001.
The following year, West agreed to defend Lindh, arguing in court that he was not a terrorist.
“He is not a terrorist,” Harris’ new hire told the Washington Post in 2002.
“He did not go to Afghanistan to kill Americans,” West said of the then 21-year-old Lindh.
Lindh faced ten federal charges, including conspiracy to murder U.S. citizens and providing services to al Qaeda.
In 2002, he accepted a