Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration is Spying on Defense Attorneys

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by Colin Kalmbacher | 4:12 pm, May 12th, 2018

On Thursday, a federal court issued an order demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) provide classified information regarding allegations that the U.S. government eavesdropped on attorney-client meetings between detainees and their counsel at Guantánamo Bay.

The unusual order issued by Judges Patricia Millett, Cornelia Pillard and Robert Wilkins with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia makes the following demand:

It is FURTHER ORDERED that the government submit to the court by Noon on Monday, May 21, 2018, in accordance with procedures governing classified information if warranted, a declaration describing any and all intrusions that have occurred, may have occurred, or that the government believes foreseeably could occur into the confidentiality of (i) petitioners’ communications with their client, (ii) petitioners’ communications with other lawyers, legal personnel, support personnel, or third parties as part of their representation of their client, or (iii) petitioners’ legal work product, legal files, or legal records (electronic or otherwise).

The three-page document also demands that the federal government turn over “Any classified or unclassified information provided by the government to Brigadier General John G. Baker, in his capacity as Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commission Defense Organization, regarding alleged breaches, accidental or otherwise, of attorney-client confidentiality and/or work product privilege pertaining to the representation by attorneys under his supervision of detainees…”

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