Gitmo Defense Lawyers Say Somebody Has Been Accessing Their Emails

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These new concerns are the latest example of irregularities of military commissions overshadowing the actual facts of the cases brought before them.

Gitmo Defense Lawyers Say Somebody Has Been Accessing Their Emails
by Cora Currier
Published on Thursday, April 11, 2013 by ProPublica

The long-troubled military trials at Guantanamo Bay were hit by revelations earlier this year that a secret censor had the ability to cut off courtroom proceedings, and that there were listening devices disguised as smoke detectors in attorney-client meeting rooms.

Now, another potential instance of compromised confidentiality at the military commissions has emerged: Defense attorneys say somebody has accessed their email and servers.

“Defense emails have ended up being provided to the prosecution, material has disappeared off the defense server, and sometimes reappeared, in different formats, or with different names,” said Rick Kammen, a lawyer for Abd Al Rahim Al Nashiri, who is accused of plotting the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole.

The lawyers say they don’t know exactly who is accessing their communications. And it’s not yet clear whether the emails were intentionally grabbed or were scooped up mistakenly due to technical or procedural errors.