Female guard testimony illegally redacted in 9/11 hearing: lawyers
Source: Reuters
Female guard testimony illegally redacted in 9/11 hearing: lawyers
Reuters
By Lacey Johnson
20 minutes ago
FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - Lawyers for five men charged with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks argued on Monday that government officials illegally redacted testimony about treatment of Muslim prisoners made during a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay.
The dispute arose over blacked-out testimony by a female guard in October about whether women guards at the U.S. military base in Cuba should be barred for religious reasons from touching Muslim prisoners.
Lawyers for the accused say prisoners' objections to being touched must be respected on religious grounds while a U.S. military official in December said the protests were an attempt to stall proceedings in the slow-moving 9/11 death penalty trial.
The guard, who used the pseudonym Sergeant Jinx, spoke in open court in 2015 about contact between female guards and Guantanamo Bay detainees. She detailed how a guard team would handle prisoners.
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Very much in the spirit of 9/11 itself, one might say.
"What we did bothered me this much." "That much, huh?"
