Air Force Lawyers at War with each other over Ahmad

[donsu]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usguan173588089dec17,0,460028.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

Military authorities searched offices of lawyers who represent an Air Force interpreter charged with spying at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison, one of the man's lawyers said yesterday.

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On Thursday, Air Force investigators searched the offices of al-Halabi's military lawyers at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, his civilian lawyer, Donald G. Rehkopf Jr., said. The investigators, who had a military warrant, copied the hard drive of one of the defense lawyers' computers, Rehkopf said.

Air Force agents also burst into a room where al-Halabi was meeting with his lawyers Wednesday and took hours to return documents and a laptop computer to him Dec. 10 when he was taken from a jail at Vandenberg to Travis Air Force Base, also in California, Rehkopf said.

"This conduct by the government is unprecedented and can only be interpreted as a conscious disregard of the attorney-client relationship," Rehkopf said in a statement. He said al-Halabi's defense team vigorously protested to Col. Barbara G. Brand, the military judge handling the case.
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[tkulesa]

1. This was already posted

I think I saw this topic discussed briefly yesterday.

It still pisses me off. They're not even pretending to be interested in the rule of law.

[donsu]

3. I hadn't seen it yesterday - yes, it would be interesting to watch

this, behind the scene, lawyer's battle. It must be fierce.

[tom_paine]

2. United We Stand -- yeah like 1861!