Padilla Allowed Access to Lawyer

United States Department of Defense ^ | February 11, 2004 | Media Center DoD Release

[Calpernia]

Jose Padilla, an enemy combatant detained at the Charleston Consolidated Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C., will be allowed access to a lawyer subject to appropriate security restrictions, the Department of Defense announced today. Arrangements for that access are being coordinated.

DoD is allowing Padilla access to counsel as a matter of discretion and military authority. Such access is not required by domestic or international law and should not be treated as a precedent. A similar decision to allow Yaser Esam Hamdi access to a lawyer was announced Dec. 2, 2003.

DoD has determined that such access will not compromise the national security of the United States, and DoD has determined that such access will not interfere with intelligence collection from Padilla, who is a U.S. citizen.

As a U.S. citizen, Padilla is not eligible for trial by military commission under the president’s military order of Nov. 13, 2001. Detention as an enemy combatant is not criminal in nature but is permitted under the law of war to prevent an enemy combatant from continuing to fight against the United States. Under the law of war, enemy combatants may be detained until the end of hostilities.

DoD policy permits access to counsel by an enemy combatant who is a U.S. citizen and who is detained by DoD in the United States: (1) after DoD has determined that such access will not compromise the national security of the United States; and (2) after DoD has completed intelligence collection from that enemy combatant or after DoD has determined that such access will not interfere with intelligence collection from that enemy combatant.

[Calpernia]

Pro Military News!

Jose Padilla, an enemy combatant detained at the Charleston Consolidated Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C., will be allowed access to a lawyer subject to appropriate security restrictions, the Department of Defense announced today. Arrangements for that access are being coordinated.

Private Mail to be added to or removed from the GNFI (or Pro-Coalition) ping list.

[Howlin]

I bet it's either Ramsey Clark or Mark Geragos!

[Modernman]

The Bush administration has ignored this issue for too long. The best way to deal with this issue is to set up a terrorism court, with judges and defense lawyers with security clearances, to allow trials for American citizens charged with terrorism.

[mrsmith]

Interesting, a process for treatment of renegades will be there for the examination of the court.

[onedoug]

[MEG33]

It is remarkable.

[george wythe]

Jose Padilla, an enemy combatant detained at the Charleston Consolidated Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C., will be allowed access to a lawyer subject to appropriate security restrictions

I've heard this mantra before... "he will be allowed access to a lawyer" but he never gets to see a lawyer.

Unless the Pentagon is about to lose big time in court, the DoD will continue to drag its heels.

[onedoug]

And remember, these sketches were made before McVey was taken into custody, and his was a dead-ringer too.

[antiRepublicrat]

Who would have though a U.S. citizen could actually have a right to an attorney? Hrmph, some pansy police state this is turning out to be. Come on Bush, get your people in gear and deny this man his rights!

[Calpernia]

I JUST post a ping to THIS thread:
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Some Soldiers missed Super Bowl

Posted by Calpernia to Constitution Day; MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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In the cold dark night, there are fewer than two dozen of us present. No outsiders are watching, but those young men give a TV-quality performance, as if their burden was a fallen president. Present Arms! We salute as the first remains are marched off the plane under the watchful gaze of the general. He salutes.
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To come OUT TO MY COMMENTS section to see your filthy trash anti American Pro Terrorist SHIT? Take a hike you mental midget!

[antiRepublicrat]

I know, that nasty 6th Amendment is just soooooo unamerican.

[antiRepublicrat]

No outsiders are watching, but those young men give a TV-quality performance, as if their burden was a fallen president. Present Arms!

By the way, I used to be one of those young men on funeral detail, and it's almost insulting to call it a "performance." It makes the honor we paid our fellow soldiers sound cheap and theatrical.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Calpernia]

I'm just signing back on now. I see you baiting me for interaction.

Other than my reply. You will not have it.

I totally don't believe you were anything military. And if you were, it was a horse and pony show for benefits.

You will never be an American. You missed the boat. You have proven yourself for being the talking head of the propaganda I receive ahead of your preferred news forums.

I stand by my mental midget comment I made to you. Go back to your vibrator news threads. That is your only qualification for this forum.

As for any response to you...there is none. You are nothing more than a mental midget.

No more said. On your way.

[antiRepublicrat]

I totally don't believe you were anything military.

I am a war veteran who spent a lot of time burying fellow soldiers, and has always supported our military. Even most of those here have enough respect for service to give Kerry credit for time served, even though he turned on the military afterwards.

If you have a problem with supporting constitutional rights and rule of law under it, then maybe you need to rethink why you are on this forum. Or are constitutional rights only to be applied to those we like? If so, they are worth nothing.

[windchime]

Bump!