Hidden mike revealed at Guantanamo meeting room

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130212/cb-guantanamo-sept-11-trial/?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=green

Hidden mike revealed at Guantanamo meeting room
BEN FOX | February 12, 2013 07:06 PM EST | AP

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A senior official for the Guantanamo Bay prison said under questioning Tuesday that the government had placed a hidden microphone inside a meeting room but that he was assured it was not used to monitor the private conversations that prisoners have with their lawyers and the Red Cross.

Navy Capt. Thomas Welsh, the senior legal adviser to the commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison, conceded the microphone appeared to be intended to resemble a smoke detector in the ceiling of a meeting room for men labeled "high-value" detainees by the Pentagon and held in a special top security camp at the U.S. base in Cuba.

"I agree with your point that it was not recognizable, it was not readily identifiable," Welsh said under questioning by David Nevin, a lawyer for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has portrayed himself as the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The admission came during a pretrial hearing. Lawyers for the five men charged with planning and aiding the attacks have asked the judge presiding over the military tribunal to immediately halt the proceedings in the long-stalled case over fears that authorities have been monitoring their private conversations in violation of attorney-client privilege.

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1. "There is a microphone, but be assured, we haven't heard a word you've said. It's the CIA's bug.

They don't talk to us, and we pretend not to notice them." If truth be told.