In a new court filing, the government disclosed that Mr. Padilla has been under interrogation by military personnel for several months. The government said letting a lawyer into the process "would threaten permanently to undermine the military's efforts to develop a relationship of trust and dependency that is essential to effective interrogation." That could "set back his interrogations by months, if not derail the process permanently."
a relationship of trust, dependency, and rubber hoses
U.S. Asks Judge to Deny Terror Suspect Access to Lawyer, Saying It Could Harm Interrogation
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What is unclear about the sixth amendment?
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to ... have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
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ah, don't forget, they're insisting that suspected terrorists are actually enemy combatants, not criminal suspects--yet, in an astounding feat of doublethink, in the same breath they insist with equal conviction that those being detained on no charges are not prisoners of war.
And also that a state of war does not exist, as that would require an act of Congress.
Yeah, but they've got precedent on their side in getting away with that dodge.
Does the, uh, War on Terror™ not count? And aren't they still "mopping up the last few strongholds" in Afghanistan?
Mind you, I wasn't paying too much attention to Congress. I don't think I was alone in that, either.
Exactly. The Padilla case is the test case for the rights of all american citizens to a fair trial. The evidence against Padilla is sufficiently slim that if the courts rule for the govt on this one ANY of us could be locked up without access to a lawyer indefinitely on trumped up charges.
This is the most stomach-churning motherfucking bald-faced lie. Even setting aside the obvious point that they are free to dream up *any* number, when shielded from scrutiny.
Where were the 100 anti-U.S. terror incidents in the year before Sept. 11th?
I suppose all the terrorists (decentralized, and of multifarious purposes) were holding their fire until the exact moment that the U.S. law enforcement agencies started tearing up the rulebook. Silly me.