Legal Opinion
In Re GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE CONTINUED ACCESS TO COUNSEL
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 6, 2012No. Misc. No. 2012-0398PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION 1
ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Eleven years after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, 168 people captured in the Global War on Terrorism remain detained at the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (“Guantanamo”). This matter concerns six of those detainees. At its heart this case is about whether the Executive or the Court is charged with protecting habeas petitioners’ right to access their counsel. Petitioners contend that the terms and conditions of this…
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