Rip out Guantanamo microphones to prevent eavesdropping: judge

February 6, 2013 by legitgov

Rip out Guantanamo microphones to prevent eavesdropping: judge 04 Feb 2013 A military judge on Monday suggested ripping out the defense table microphones to ease concerns that intelligence agents could be eavesdropping on confidential attorney-client conversations in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal. The judge also ordered that doctors examine Saudi defendant Abd al Rahim al Nashiri to determine whether his treatment in CIA custody had left him mentally competent to stand trial on charges of orchestrating a deadly attack on a U.S. warship. The issue arose after a revelation last week that someone outside the courtroom had briefly cut the closed-circuit feed that provides sound and video to public viewing areas during a pretrial hearing for five prisoners accused of plotting the [Bush-Cheney] September 11 hijacked plane attacks on the United States in 2001.