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Behind the scenes, Obama's team is struggling to get a handle on Hartmann's plans for bringing the Gitmo suspects to justice. Several days ago, a team of Obama legal advisers quietly met at the Pentagon with Hartmann and others involved in the Guantánamo trials, sources tell TIME. Hartmann vigorously defended them, arguing that they should continue regardless of the change in administrations. Though specifically asked to do so, Hartmann declined to discuss legal alternatives to the trials, a topic Obama's representatives had been eager to explore...
...deposition goes on to say that Hartmann wanted to gain access to sensitive U.S. "videotapes of foreign delegations meeting with their nationals" at Guantánamo. Foreign intelligence and security officers have made numerous visits to the high-security prison, but the U.S. has been reluctant to discuss records of the sessions - or even to confirm that such records exist. Several U.S. allies were reportedly angered to discover that these meetings had been recorded without advance warning or permission. Some defense lawyers allege that foreign security agents threatened prisoners to gain their cooperation in the meetings while U.S. authorities failed...
...rules under consideration would make it easier for government prosecutors to gather evidence that could be used to build cases against the suspected terrorists. One proposal calls for getting rid of the "psychotherapist-patient privilege" for Guantánamo prisoners because, as the document explains, it "greatly restricts the government's access to mental health records." The same argument is made for the "physician-patient privilege" so that detainee medical records might be used at trial. The U.S. Supreme Court has long upheld both privileges for Americans under most circumstances...
...second proposal argues that prisoners at Guantánamo should be compelled to attend their own trials because "the government has a legitimate interest in the accused's presence ... [in part to promote] the appearance and actuality of legitimacy in the proceedings." A variety of legal analysts told TIME that such a policy could mean the forcible extraction from cells of Guantánamo prisoners who might refuse to attend trial, as some have indicated they will...
...spring, Hartmann attended a high-level Pentagon meeting where he made the case that detainee medical and intelligence records should be available to the military court, according to several people who attended the session. When objections were raised that Hartman's recommendations would undermine medical treatment at Guantánamo by turning the camp's doctors into agents of law enforcement and the prosecution, Hartmann engaged in what was described as a loud and prolonged argument...