US Eavesdropping on Guantánamo Lawyers?

The New York TImes reports Lawyers for Guantánamo Inmates Accuse U.S. of Eavesdropping.

"In interviews and a court filing Tuesday, lawyers for detainees at Guantánamo said they believed government agents had monitored their conversations. The assertions are the most specific to date by Guantánamo lawyers that officials may be violating legal principles that have generally kept government agents from eavesdropping on lawyers."

Right, we're the nation of fair trials.

"The Justice Department declined to comment Tuesday. But in a legal response in March, its lawyers said they could neither confirm nor deny that detainees’ lawyers had been targets of such surveillance 'because doing so would compromise the United States Intelligence Communities sources and methods.'"

"Justice Department officials have said in the past that they had not used their terrorist surveillance powers to single out lawyers but that telephone “calls involving such persons would not be categorically excluded.”