Word: hamdan
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...Tortured Negotiations White House officials, potentially vulnerable to prosecution in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision, break out the big guns in a battle over detainees
...previous weeks, the government had carted away over half a ton of similar materials from the cells of other prisoners - much of which, like Hamdan's notes, are protected by attorney-client privilege. "In these notes the government knows all of my future legal strategy," Hamdan writes in his affidavit. The government has said it seized the material as part of its investigation into the suicides of detainees at Guantanamo...
...midnight they took from me my notes that dealt with our future legal strategy and my questions," writes Hamdan, who was allegedly Osama bin Laden's driver. "I got mad and I called the guard in a raised voice because he was getting far away from me. At that moment the guard returned and took out a pepper spray can and put it in my face and demanded I be quiet and told me the discussion is over. I sat down complying with the guard's orders...
...This week in federal court in Washington, D.C., lawyers for Guantanamo detainees asked a federal judge to order the return of materials covered by the attorney-client privilege and hold the government in contempt for having taken possession of them in the first place. Hamdan is not part of this filing. But given the Bush Administration's recent loss in the Hamdan case, this latest legal salvo represents another potentially embarrassing challenge to the Justice Department's strategy for Guantanamo. The Justice Department has filed its own motion requesting court-sanctioned procedures, including the use of a "filter team...
...Hamdan's lawyers opted not to join the other detainees' filings on the seizure of handwritten notes while they see how the dust settles in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling. But, says Hamdan attorney Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Hamdan's seized notes had nothing to do with the suicides and were not even written until weeks later but could be of use to government lawyers who would be arguing against Hamdan in a future legal action. Taking these notes, says Swift, is a clear "interference in the attorney-client relationship...