Judge: Detainee Can't Speak to Attorney

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A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison is not allowed to speak to a civilian attorney until an appeals court decides what rights military detainees have, a federal judge said Friday.

The Justice Department argues that under a new anti-terrorism law, detainees have no right to challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts. Human rights groups argue that's unconstitutional.

Until the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia settles the question, legal challenges brought by hundreds of detainees remain in limbo.

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Attorneys who filed documents on his behalf said Khan needs access to a lawyer because he may have been tortured. The Justice Department objected, saying Khan could reveal details of the CIA program including interrogation techniques.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6222017,00.html

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1. IOW, he can't have a lawyer to file a complaint that he has been tortured

because the CIA would have to stop torturing him.

[The Stranger]

2. These criminals in the Justice Department need to be arrested and indicted.

Are the Democrats holding hearings on the concentration camp they are running?

[mmonk]

3. That judge

belongs on a Chinese or North Korean court, not American. Maybe he would understand things a little better if he were held without charge and tortured. I want this Stalinist/Hitlerian system stopped.

[helderheid]

4. And yet hanging chad is out on bail

[Fleshdancer]

5. What happens when the CIA is done with them? Kill them?

Hold them in Guantanamo forever? What is the end result here? When does it end and how?

I just love that this "war on terror" includes terrorizing others. I'm sure this will end terrorism forever and we will all live in peaceful bliss because of it. :sarcasm:

Freaking nuts.