Dispatch from GTMO
Joshua Wirtshafter ’14, a Fellow at the Center for Policy and Research, blogs for
The Public Record
Josh Wirtshafter ’14 represented Seton Hall Law at the pre-trial hearings of the ‘9/11
Five,” the defendants accused of plotting the attacks of September 11, 2001. During
his visit, issues of attorney-client privilege, and defendants’ rights to privacy,
were brought to light when defense counsel asserted that listening devices were installed
in the rooms where they talked with their clients. In addition, defendants returned
to their cells after proceedings on February 13 to find their attorney-client mail
had been ransacked and some of it, confiscated. Read more >>
