MIAMI — A secret Defense Department program provides unfettered eavesdropping on the accused terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo’s clandestine Camp 7 lockup, recently released war court documents show. Army Col. James L. Pohl, the judge in 9/11 trial, discovered the existence of the secret surveillance program during a recent war court hearing. Little is publicly known about the program, not even its unclassified two-word nickname. The disclosure of pervasive eavesdropping at Guantanamo’s lockup for 14 former CIA prisoners comes in before-and-after documents released by the court from the recent Oct. 19-30 pretrial hearings in the death penalty case of five men accused of orchestrating the...
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