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Guantanamo computer problems worsening, defense lawyer tells judge
Source: Reuters
Guantanamo computer problems worsening, defense lawyer tells judge
By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba | Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:08pm EDT
(Reuters) - Months of efforts to fix a file-gobbling computer system used by defense lawyers in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal have only turned up more problems, the chief defense counsel testified on Wednesday.
Defense lawyers asked the U.S. military judge to halt pre-trial hearings in the death penalty case against five alleged conspirators in the September 11 plot until the technical problems are fixed, which is not expected to happen before early next year.
Files began vanishing in January and the chief defense counsel, Air Force Colonel Karen Mayberry, ordered defense lawyers to stop putting confidential documents on their computer network in April because the data breaches had shown the system was not secure.
"We've got more issues now than we did then," Mayberry testified in the top-security courtroom at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.
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By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba | Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:08pm EDT
(Reuters) - Months of efforts to fix a file-gobbling computer system used by defense lawyers in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal have only turned up more problems, the chief defense counsel testified on Wednesday.
Defense lawyers asked the U.S. military judge to halt pre-trial hearings in the death penalty case against five alleged conspirators in the September 11 plot until the technical problems are fixed, which is not expected to happen before early next year.
Files began vanishing in January and the chief defense counsel, Air Force Colonel Karen Mayberry, ordered defense lawyers to stop putting confidential documents on their computer network in April because the data breaches had shown the system was not secure.
"We've got more issues now than we did then," Mayberry testified in the top-security courtroom at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/18/us-usa-guantanamo-idUSBRE98H0Z420130918