U.S. seeks to Listen to detainee-lawyer Conversations at Guantanamo Bay
The Bush administration wants to monitor conversations between foreigners held at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and their attorneys because it wants the attorneys to help gather intelligence from the captives, a government lawyer revealed Monday. At a hearing in U.S. District Court here, Justice Department lawyer Brian Boyle said the government is seeking to record what usually would be private, attorney-client discussions because more "important intelligence insight could be derived from these conversations than has been derived in interrogations." U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly seized on Boyle's arguments, which came in a civil case brought by 12 Kuwaiti detainees who have been held incommunicado for nearly three years. She said the government had not previously said in court papers that it wanted to use detainees' attorneys to help gather intelligence. [more 
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- Making Sense of the Guantanamo Bay Tribunals [more ] - good background material on Gitmo