"Justice" Dept Wants 3 Visit Limit on Detainee Meetings with Lawyers

[Rose Siding]

The president of the (New York City Bar) leveled the criticism on Friday in a letter asking Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to abandon a Justice Department proposal to limit lawyers’ access to the nearly 400 detainees at the prison.
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In his letter to Mr. Gonzales, the bar association’s president, Barry M. Kamins, said, “This is an astonishing and disingenuous assertion.”

“Blaming counsel for the hunger strikes and other unrest is a continuation of a disreputable and unwarranted smear campaign against counsel,” the letter said.
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The department wants to narrow the definition of “legal mail” and set a three-visit limit on face-to-face meetings once a detainee agrees at an initial meeting to let a lawyer represent him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/washington/30gitmo.html

[jwirr]

1. I think we need a new name for that department. Something that

will reflect their attitude toward justice: like obstruction department?