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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that lawyers for John Walker Lindh cannot conduct face-to-face interviews with detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
But U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis did allow defense lawyers to submit written questions for interrogators to ask the captives.
The ruling was a setback for the defense, which had hoped to glean additional information from the detainees, some of whom are Lindh’s fellow Taliban soldiers, that might help his case. The defense team is to submit written questions next week and will later see videotapes of those questions being asked by U.S. interrogators.
