Guantánamo April 26, 2007

As if the legal situation at Guantánamo couldn’t get any worse, the DOJ is requesting court approval to further castrate detainee access to defense attorneys.

Among the DOJ proposals:

• Defense attorneys would be allowed to meet with their clients only three times;
• Intelligence officers and military lawyers would be allowed to read letters clients write to their attorneys;

And, of course, the U.S. continues to insist that nobody at Guantánamo has a right to an attorney in the first place, so we should be thankful of any concessions made…

See the International Herald Tribune article for the full story.