Covert Inquiry by F.B.I. Rattles 9/11 Tribunals
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Source: NY Times
Covert Inquiry by F.B.I. Rattles 9/11 Tribunals
WASHINGTON — Two weeks ago, a pair of F.B.I. agents appeared unannounced at the door of a member of the defense team for one of the men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As a contractor working with the defense team at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the man was bound by the same confidentiality rules as a lawyer. But the agents wanted to talk.
They asked questions, lawyers say, about the legal teams for Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other accused terrorists who will eventually stand trial before a military tribunal at Guantánamo. Before they left, the agents asked the contractor to sign an agreement promising not to tell anyone about the conversation.
With that signature, Mr. bin al-Shibh’s lawyers say, the government turned a member of their team into an F.B.I. informant.
The F.B.I.’s inquiry became the focus of the pretrial hearings at Guantánamo this week, after the contractor disclosed it to the defense team. It was a reminder that, no matter how much the proceedings at the island military prison resemble a familiar American trial, the invisible hand of the United States government is at work there in ways unlike anything seen in typical courtrooms.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/us/politics/covert-inquiry-by-fbi-rattles-9-11-tribunals.html?hp
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I didn't attempt to bring that, more fuller dimension into the current discussion as I was actually addressing our democratic party community, or more specifically our discussion board "membership" as it were. Our milieu of functionaries, activists citizens, general party supporters, analysts, journalists and every day folk.
I quite agree with you and should have been more clear... thanks for keeping me on my toes! 
