NYT: Gov't says US citizen shouldn't be allowed a lawyer
"The government argued today that Yasser Esam Hamdi, a prisoner from the Afghan war who was born in Baton Rouge, La., and is in custody in Norfolk, should not be allowed to see a lawyer for national security reasons..... He has not been charged with any crime and has not been allowed to see a lawyer on the grounds that he is an enemy combatant.
Stuff like this infuriates me. How can an American citizen be denied the right to see a lawyer? We are a long way down the slippery slope. I just hope that the jucidiary does its balancing role to bring things back to the center.
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