Article: U.S. asks court to limit lawyers' access to Guantanamo Bay

William Glaberson
International Herald Tribune
04-27-2007
The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on the hundreds of lawyers who represent prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the request has become a central issue in a new legal battle over the administration's detention policies.Saying that visits by civilian lawyers and attorney-client mail have caused ''intractable problems and threats to security at Guantanamo,'' a Justice Department filing proposes new limits on the lawyers' contact with their clients and access to evidence in their cases that would replace more expansive rules that have governed them since they began visiting ...

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