"Under U.S. law, a criminal defendant's right to representation by counsel includes a right to confidential communications with an attorney and private legal documents.
"We have an issue of unlawful authority," Ruiz said.
Under questioning from Ruiz, Navy Commander George Massucco admitted that a Guantanamo guard seized documents from Hawsawi's cell and put them in an envelope.
Massucco, a prison camp lawyer and liaison with "high-value" detainees like Hawsawi, said: "Some of the documents had attorney-client marks on them, yes."
He said he did not read the documents after the guard showed them to him."
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