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NY Times: "Lawyers Fear Monitoring in Cases on Terrorism"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In today's NY Times: Lawyers Fear Monitoring in Cases on Terrorism: PORTLAND, Ore. — Thomas Nelson, an Oregon lawyer, has lived in a state of perpetual jet lag for the last two years. Every few weeks, he boards a plane in Portland and flies to the Middle East to meet with a high-profile Saudi client who cannot enter the United States because he faces charges here of financing terrorism. Mr. Nelson says he does not dare to phone this client or send him e-mail messages because of what many prominent criminal defense lawyers say is a well-founded fear that all of their contacts are being monitored by the United States government. Because he is constantly shifting time zones to see his client face to face, “I just don’t sleep normally anymore,” Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).