Remes, David - short clip - AnAdversarialRelationship
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- | We had a very adversary relationship with JTF, | 0:00 |
from the beginning. | 0:06 | |
First of all, as I said, they didn't accept our legitimacy. | 0:08 | |
They thought that we were extensions of our clients. | 0:16 | |
And on one occasion, I nearly came to blows | 0:26 | |
with a Lieutenant commander because a client hadn't been | 0:33 | |
brought when he was supposed to be brought out, | 0:38 | |
the wrong client was brought at another time, | 0:41 | |
they made life miserable for the detainees who had lawyers | 0:44 | |
requiring them to spend two or three days in isolation | 0:49 | |
before and afterward. | 0:52 | |
And we were regarded as the enemy and they did | 0:55 | |
everything they could to make life hard for us. | 0:57 | |
And at one point, | 1:01 | |
I picked up the phone and I shouted at the Lieutenant | 1:04 | |
Commander. I said, one of my clients is missing | 1:12 | |
and he said, he's not missing. We know where he is. | 1:16 | |
And that the wrong client was brought in on and on, | 1:19 | |
and then he came over | 1:23 | |
and chewed me out for being disrespectful for his guards. | 1:24 | |
And then I denied it and we really had a face-off. | 1:29 | |
We nearly came to blows, at another point | 1:33 | |
Clive Smith was pistol whipped by guards and threatened | 1:36 | |
with arrest, pistol whip, maybe a little strong. | 1:41 | |
You'd have to ask him again. | 1:44 | |
My understanding was that a pistol was involved. | 1:46 | |
The Lieutenant commander that I almost came to blows with | 1:50 | |
got back at me by opening my legal mail. | 1:54 | |
And then the claim was | 2:00 | |
that the legal mail was simply jostled | 2:02 | |
in being carried from one place to another. | 2:06 | |
And it really was antagonistic. | 2:10 |
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