Curb sought on counsel to detainees

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US asks court to restrict talks with lawyers
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff  |  October 25, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The US government is seeking to sharply restrict communication between defense lawyers and inmates at Guantanamo Bay prison, asserting that some lawyers have given inmates "inflammatory" material such as reports of abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and news articles about terrorist attacks.

The government is seeking judicial approval for new rules that would allow defense lawyers only four visits with their clients, rather than the unlimited number now permitted; control the topics that can be discussed in such meetings; and restrict the types of information that can be exchanged between lawyers and detainees through the mail.

The government filed the new rules in August with the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., which is currently reviewing them in connection with the case of a Guantanamo detainee. If the court agrees to the limitations, they are expected to be applied to future cases.

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Any bets on who those "future cases" might be?

[Burried News]

1. Why don't we just cut their tongues out and put them in an Iron Mask?

Disgusting.

[saigon68]

2. Well they are Islamics

And according to Cheney are on the level of diseased dogs etc.

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[Eugene]

3. The real scary part is gov't limits on the the scope of the contacts.

Human rights information from Amnesty International was deemed "inflammatory."
BushCo is showing the attitude towards human rights of a third world dictatorship.
They are leading the country down a dangerous path.