Via Weekly Standard:
There is controversy at Guantanamo over a policy that allows authorities to review attorney-client communications. The Associated Press reports on one reason this policy was implemented in the first place:
U.S. prosecutors say a copy of a magazine published by an arm of al-Qaida made its way to a terror suspect at the Guantanamo Bay prison, leading to an inspection of cells and a contentious new policy requiring special review teams to examine correspondence between prisoners and attorneys.
Navy Cmdr. Andrea Lockhart told a military judge on Wednesday during a pre-trial hearing that a copy of Inspire magazine got into a cell. She provided no details on who received the magazine or how. But she said the breach showed prior rules governing mail review were not adequate.
The government apparently did not explicitly say at the hearing that a detainee’s lawyer was responsible for sneaking the Inspire magazine in, even though the issue was raised in the context of attorney-client communications.