Steven Chaykin Quotations

Now we find that the government concluded some 25 years ago that what our clients are being accused of today was not improper.

There are some serious questions about the timing and the nature of this prosecution.

The presumption of innocence has disappeared. There are serious and troubling questions about these charges - their timing and purpose.

We think they are being inappropriately detained. Their presumption of innocence has been eviscerated. They are being punished for a crime they were not convicted of.

They conducted the most intimate surveillance for the entire time. Don't you think that it would have come up? Had it existed, I can assure you the government would have brought it out already.

There was no national secrets, no national security secrets. There were no defense secrets or confidential information that was provided to anyone on the Cuban side of the equation.