Whats a former model and dancer doing defending alleged terrorists?
By Patrick Beach AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, October 20, 2009 There once was a Kristine Huskey who lived in New York with her sister in the late 1980s, worked as a model and actress — most notably in videos for Buster Poindexter’s “Hot, Hot, Hot” and H-Town’s “Knockin’ Da Boots” — tended bar, partied and not occasionally made her way home after sunup, wishing she’d remembered her sunglasses. As it happens, there’s a woman by the same name whose law firm agreed to represent the families of Kuwaitis rounded up right after 9/11 and sent to the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a Kristine Huskey who spent years battling the government before even getting a chance to meet her detainee clients, whose case eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court, and who is now a law professor and director of the National Security Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law. On top of that, she’s also a fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, a th
