Bush Wants to Prevent Detainees From Telling Lawyers About Torture
The case of Majid Khan is proceeding through the courts. The Judge, Reggie Walton, is the same judge presiding over the Scooter Libby trial.
What will he do with the Government's latest request -- to prevent detainees in CIA secret prisons from talking to their lawyers about their conditions of confinement?
The government, in trying to block lawyers' access to the 14 detainees, effectively asserts that the detainees' experiences are a secret that should never be shared with the public.
... Joseph Margulies, a Northwestern University law professor who has represented several detainees at Guantanamo, said the prisoners "can't even say what our government did to these guys to elicit the statements that are the basis for them being held. Kafka-esque doesn't do it justice. This is 'Alice in Wonderland.' "
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