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Lawyers: Gov’t Secretly Taped Attorney-Client Talks

HeadlineJul 06, 2004

Lawyers from Legal Aid in New York have filed a lawsuit against prison officials at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after the lawyers learned the prison secretly videotaped at least 40 meetings between the lawyers and their clients. The detention center was largely used to hold Arab and Muslim immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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