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Guards seized Guantanamo defendants' legal documents

February 14, 2013 19:30
(Adds details, shouting match between Pentagon appointee and defense) * It was a mix-up over security stamps, lawyer testified * Defendants accused of plotting Sept. 11 attacks * Pretrial hearing marked by angry outbursts By Jane Sutton

Guantanamo defendants' legal documents were seized, lawyers say

February 14, 2013 12:57
* Documents vanished while defendants were in court * Their cells were ransacked, defense lawyers say * Defendants are charged with plotting September 11 attacks By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Feb 14 (Reuters) - G uards rifled through defendants' cells and seized their confidential legal documents while the accused were in the courtroom listening to assurances that no one reads their private attorney-client mail, defense lawyers charged on Thursday.

Guantanamo hearing gets tutorial in courtroom recording technology

February 13, 2013 09:59
* Defendants charged with plotting Sept. 11 attacks * Defense lawyers want to know who's listening in * Attorney-client talk is supposed to be private By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Feb 12 (Reuters) - U .S. intelligence agents receive a raw feed of everything picked up by the microphones in the Guantanamo courtroom where five prisoners face capital charges of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, a court technician testified on Tuesday.

US able to eavesdrop on 9/11 suspects' conversations

February 12, 2013 18:45
The US government was capable of eavesdropping on whispered conversations between the suspected plotters of 9/11 and their lawyers in court at Guantanamo Bay, a witness testified Tuesday. Maurice Elkins, the director of technology for the hearings at the US Navy base on the southeastern tip of Cuba, said more than 20 microphones had been spread around the courtroom, until changes were made on Monday.

US able to eavesdrop on 9/11 suspects' in court

February 12, 2013 18:18
The United States was capable of eavesdropping on what were thought to be private conversations in court between the suspected plotters of 9/11 and their lawyers, a witness testified Tuesday. Maurice Elkins, director of courtroom technology at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay on the southeastern tip of Cuba, said 32 microphones had monitored such legal hearings, until changes were made on Monday.

Censorship in spotlight at 9/11 suspects' hearing

February 11, 2013 17:01
The five suspected plotters of the September 11 attacks were back in court on Monday with censorship at the center of how their pre-trial hearings have been conducted at Guantanamo Bay. A military judge overseeing the hearings ruled last month that the US government censored a discussion involving secret CIA prisons, preventing it from being heard outside the courtroom, and ordered such censorship to stop.

Hearing for 9-11 suspects halted to prevent eavesdropping

February 11, 2013 14:45
* Defense lawyers question whether anyone monitoring conversations * Prosecutors deny eavesdropping * Judge orders court microphones changed By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A pretrial hearing for five prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks was halted on Monday so technicians could tinker with courtroom microphones to prevent eavesdropping on confidential attorney-client conversations.

UPDATE 1-Judge orders end to secret censorship of Guantanamo court

January 31, 2013 18:45
* Courtroom feed was cut at mention of secret CIA prisons * Judge said no outside party had authority to suspend broadcast * Defense wants probe of suspected monitoring of talks with clients By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A U.S. military judge on Thursday ordered the government to dismantle a monitoring system that let outside censors halt the public broadcast of hearings for Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks.

Judge to US government: stop censoring 9/11 hearings

January 31, 2013 13:30
A military judge overseeing September 11 pre-trial hearings revealed Thursday the government had censored them from outside the courtroom, and angrily ordered that this stop immediately. The proceedings at the high-security, high-tech courtroom due to host the trial of five alleged plotters in America's worst terror attack are heard in the press gallery and in a room where human rights groups and victims' families sit, with a 40 second delay. This is done so a court security officer, or CSO, sitting next to the judge can block anything deemed classified.
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