U.S. Wants to Monitor Detainees and Lawyers
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Justice Department asked a federal judge to allow the government to monitor discussions between a dozen Kuwaiti terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and their lawyers.
The hearing before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was aimed at spelling out the conditions in which lawyers could advise the so-called enemy combatants after the Supreme Court ruled the prisoners had a right to challenge their captivity in federal court.
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