Signs of Detainees’ Planning Alleged

Posted on July 10, 2006

Barbara Olshansky, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents most of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, is upset because Government lawyers have asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to allow them to assemble “filter teams” to review 1,100 pounds of detainee documents, “some of which are protected by lawyer-client privilege and would usually be off-limits to authorities.”

Why would the Government want to do this?

Three suicides at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may have been part of a broader plot by detainees who were using confidential lawyer-client papers and envelopes to pass handwritten notes their guards could not intercept, according to documents that government lawyers filed yesterday in federal court.

Detainees could apparently hide documents in their cells — including instructions on how to tie knots and a classified U.S. military memo regarding cell locations of detainees and camp operational matters at Guantanamo — by keeping the materials in envelopes labeled as lawyer-client communications. Notes that investigators found after the suicides on June 10 were apparently written on the back of notepaper stamped “Attorney Client Privilege,” which allowed detainees to communicate secretly without interference, according to government officials.

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2 Responses to “Signs of Detainees’ Planning Alleged”

Jay on July 10th, 2006 11:53 am

Interesting. It was these very lawyers from the ACLU type organizations that were crying for the suicides to be investigated. I said a while back they should be careful what they ask for.
kerwin_brown on July 11th, 2006 10:11 am

If this is true then some lawyers may find themselves in jail for treason. I would like to see it.