Group says Bush Administration making stuff up over defense lawyers at Guatanamo Bay

[ck4829]

The Bush administration is trying to evade responsibility for problems at the Guantanamo Bay prison by falsely blaming defense lawyers for the trouble, the New York City Bar says.

The group's president leveled the criticism in asking Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to abandon a Justice Department proposal to limit lawyers' access to the nearly 400 detainees.

In a court filing this month, the department said attorney access via the mail system has "enabled detainees' counsel to cause unrest on the base by informing detainees about terrorist attacks."

The mail system was "misused" to inform detainees about military operations in Iraq, activities of terrorist leaders, efforts in the war on terror, the Hezbollah attack on Israel and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, the department said in this month's court filing.

"This is an astonishing and disingenuous assertion," the association president, Barry M. Kamins, wrote Gonzales.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_lawyers

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Is this a surprise to anyone?

:shrug:

[Richard Steele]

2. Gee, the B*sh Administration told a lie? I'm shocked.

:eyes:

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Listen to "THIS AMERICAN LIFE" from 3/06. Exposes horrors of GITMO/Habeas Corpus.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3240265&mesg_id=3240265

[Fridays Child]

4. The Bush administration is so scrupulous about archiving email that I'm sure they have the proof.

:freak:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Making stuff up... sounds a lot like lying to me,

and in that case, this would be reasonable, as it is the only competent action this maladministration is capable of.

[jimshoes]

6. It's what they do...

from the very beginning. They have no qualms about it. They don't play by the same set of rules, in fact they have no rules.