Judge: Cuba Detainees Must Have Lawyers

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that terror suspects held in Cuba must be allowed to meet with lawyers, and that the government cannot monitor their conversations.

In a sharp rebuke of the Bush administration, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the administration "attempts to erode this bedrock principle" of attorney-client privacy with "a flimsy assemblage" of arguments.

The Supreme Court ruled in June that the 600 foreign-born men then held in the Navy-run prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could challenge their captivity in American courts.

Kollar-Kotelly, a former Justice Department attorney named to the bench by President Clinton, said that would be impossible without legal help. "They have been detained virtually incommunicado for nearly three years without being charged with any crime. To say that (detainees') ability to investigate the circumstances surrounding their capture and detention is `seriously impaired' is an understatement," she wrote...

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Note to Judge: Watch your back, and get your family and your money out of the US.

....Better hide till inauguration day anyway!
;-)

i wonder if any of them will get their cases heard again, out side the tribunal court.