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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
...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
...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
...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...