Man in Terror Case Allowed to See Lawyer (Padilla)

[Khephra]

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Jose Padilla, the American arrested in an alleged al-Qaida plot to set off a radioactive "dirty bomb," was allowed to meet with lawyers Wednesday for the first time in nearly two years.

The U.S. government has designated Padilla an "enemy combatant," meaning he can be held indefinitely without access to lawyers. But the government relented last month, just days before the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear his case.

Donna R. Newman, one of the attorneys for Padilla, said there was a video camera present and military personnel looked on from an adjoining room during the three-hour meeting at the Navy brig near Charleston.

"I'm not saying we were not thrilled to see him, but it was not by any stretch of the imagination" a typical lawyer-client meeting held in confidence, Newman said.

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[JohnOneillsMemory]

1. It's sick that this it is news that this person got to see a lawyer.

I have a relative who works as a translator in US intelligence who has assured me that "the Constitution is alive and well."

I don't think she reads the newspaper like *.