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Guantánamo security clearance denied to lawyers of cooperating witness
Source: The Guardian
Guantánamo security clearance denied to lawyers of cooperating witness
Spencer Ackerman in New York
Tuesday 8 September 2015 12.00 BST
The military command at Guantánamo Bay has stopped honoring security clearances for attorneys representing the only detainee who has agreed to testify against the 9/11 defendants, the Guardian has learned. A doctor specializing in the treatment of torture victims has also lost her ability to visit the base.
Katya Jestin, a former federal prosecutor, is no longer able to see her client, Majid Khan, jeopardizing Khan’s own case and posing yet another challenge for the long-stalled 9/11 military commission.
Nor is Dr Sondra Crosby able to visit detainee Abdel Rahim Nashiri, whose attorney, Rick Kammen, described the situation as inexplicable.
Joint Task Force-Guantánamo (JTF-GTMO), which operates the indefinite detention center, had previously honored the two clearances. Without them, attorneys and defense-team doctors have no way of passing through the Guantánamo gates to visit their clients.
Since July, Jestin and Crosby have not been able to enter the base.
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Spencer Ackerman in New York
Tuesday 8 September 2015 12.00 BST
The military command at Guantánamo Bay has stopped honoring security clearances for attorneys representing the only detainee who has agreed to testify against the 9/11 defendants, the Guardian has learned. A doctor specializing in the treatment of torture victims has also lost her ability to visit the base.
Katya Jestin, a former federal prosecutor, is no longer able to see her client, Majid Khan, jeopardizing Khan’s own case and posing yet another challenge for the long-stalled 9/11 military commission.
Nor is Dr Sondra Crosby able to visit detainee Abdel Rahim Nashiri, whose attorney, Rick Kammen, described the situation as inexplicable.
Joint Task Force-Guantánamo (JTF-GTMO), which operates the indefinite detention center, had previously honored the two clearances. Without them, attorneys and defense-team doctors have no way of passing through the Guantánamo gates to visit their clients.
Since July, Jestin and Crosby have not been able to enter the base.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/08/guantanamo-security-clearance-denied-lawyers-cooperating-witness