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Government

May 10, 2007

Lawyers Face Less Access to Detainees

WASHINGTON - On Jan. 24, 2006, guards at the U.S. government's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, overheard an inmate reading a book titled "The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib."

By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      WASHINGTON - On January 24, 2006, guards at the U.S. government's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, overheard an inmate reading a book entitled "The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib."
      The guards immediately confiscated the book, which was marked with a statement that it was a legal document supplied by the detainee's attorneys.

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