Citing a "cardinal rule" of litigation, a New York federal judge on Tuesday ordered government attorneys to tell him how much they know about the possible monitoring of conversations between eight former terrorism suspects and their lawyers. The eight men are suing the government for abuses while they were detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center. Now that they are no longer in the United States, the men suspect that their conversations with their attorneys have been monitored under an NSA program.
October 05, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Citing a “cardinal rule” of litigation, a federal judge in Brooklyn on Tuesday ordered government attorneys to tell him how much they know about the possible monitoring of conversations between eight former terrorism suspects and their lawyers.
The eight men, all illegal aliens, were arrested after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and later deported. They are suing the government for abuses while they were detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
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