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Lawyers Meet With Dirty Bomb Suspect
Lawyers for Jose Padilla met yesterday with their client for the first time since he was declared an enemy combatant two years ago after his arrest for suspicion of planning a “dirty bomb” attack in the United States, the Chicago Tribune reported today (see GSN, Feb. 25). Court-appointed attorneys Donna Newman and Andrew Patel said they did not discuss details of the government’s claims against Padilla because the meeting at the Charleston, S.C. naval brig was monitored by Navy officials. “One of the first things we told Mr. Padilla was that there were innumerable things we would love to discuss with him, but we would not be able to because this did not qualify as a confidential discussion,” Patel said (Stevenson Swanson, Chicago Tribune/Philadelphia Inquirer, March 4). Newman said her client seemed upbeat, and that she looks forward to meeting with him again, the Washington Post reported. “He was in very good spirits to finally see someone, but this was not an attorney-client meeting. This was invitation-only, and we were not allowed to ask about the conditions of his confinement,” she said. “I gave him some newspaper articles about his case, and he was most appreciative. Now I’ll await another government invitation to meet with my client again,” she added (Michael Powell, Washington Post, March 4).
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