Guantánamo Detainee’s Lawyer Seeks (to Publically Discuss Client's) WikiLeaks Documents

[Hissyspit]

Source: New York Times

Guantánamo Detainee’s Lawyer Seeks a Voice on WikiLeaks Documents
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: April 27, 2011

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These articles are based on a huge trove of secret documents leaked last year to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks and made available to The New York Times by another source on the condition of anonymity.

The lawyer, David H. Remes, who represents Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman accused of discussing plots against the United States with Al Qaeda leaders after Sept. 11, 2001, filed an emergency petition in the Federal District Court here. Mr. Remes is challenging a Justice Department notice on Monday that appears to prohibit lawyers from publicly discussing the leaked documents.

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On Monday, the Justice Department’s Court Security Office sent a notice to lawyers for Guantánamo prisoners informing them that prison documents obtained by WikiLeaks, now being posted online by the antisecrecy group and several newspapers, remained classified by law.

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The notice did not explain what was prohibited. But Mr. Remes and other lawyers are concerned that if they view or discuss the documents, they may be stripped of their security clearances or face other punishments. “Losing his clearance will disable him from continuing to represent his current or future detainee clients,” Mr. Remes’s petition says. “Counsel is concerned that the government may even prosecute him.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/us/28gitmo.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

[No Elephants]

1. The D of J is prohibiting free speech? Perne in a gyre.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

What will those lawyers find if they read them? That something (regarding their clients) had been withheld from them in the past?

[Hissyspit]

3. Ha, "publically"

I made up a word.

I'll be glad when the one-hour edit restriction is gone from DU.

[The Stranger]

4. Has everyone lost their fucking minds?

. . . a Justice Department notice on Monday that appears to prohibit lawyers from publicly discussing the leaked documents.

How in the fuck can the "Justice" Department issue orders of prior restraint contravening the First Amendment and all notions of legal representation and freedom of speech?

Where are the liberty "Don't Tread On Me" pieces of shit while this is going on?

I mean, are you FUCKING kidding me?

[EFerrari]

5. They did this when Cablegate first started, remember?

No one who worked for the government, even students at Columbia who might want to work for the government were warned against reading Wikileaks.