New layer of secrecy emerges at Guantanamo court
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/10/193546/new-layer-of-secrecy-emerges-at.html
New layer of secrecy emerges at Guantanamo court
By CAROL ROSENBERG | The Miami Herald
Posted on Monday, June 10, 2013
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba When the war court reconvenes this week, pretrial hearings in the case of an alleged al-Qaida bomber will be tackling a government motion that's so secret the public can't know its name.
It's listed as the 92nd court filing in the death-penalty case against a Saudi man, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was waterboarded by CIA agents.
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But what makes the no-name government motion so intriguing is that those who've read it can't say what it's about, and those who haven't don't have a clue.
Not even the accused, who, unless the judge rules for the defense, is not allowed to get an unclassified explanation of it - and cannot sit in on the court session when it's argued in secret.
The motion was so secret that al-Nashiri's Indianapolis-based defense attorney said members of the defense team would not characterize it over the phone. "Literally, I had to fly to Washington, D.C., to read it," said attorney Rick Kammen of Indianapolis, a career death-penalty defender whom the Pentagon pays to represent al-Nashiri.
unhappycamper comment: This is Orwellian at best: We can't tell you what you're being charged with.