A NEW YORK defense lawyer yesterday filed a lawsuit to overturn new regulations that allow the government to eavesdrop on conversations between lawyers and terrorism suspects.
The suit, filed against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues that the eavesdropping regulations are unconstitutional and deprive Mohamed Rashid Daoud Al’-Owhali, who was convicted of partaking in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya, of his Fifth Amendment right to due process and his Sixth Amendment right to affective assistance of counsel.
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