happened to be on duty the day that i got a call that we had prisoner in first the afghanistan war, john walker lindh, quickly dubbed the american taliban. i was told unambiguously that he had a lawyer and the criminal division wanted to know about the ethical propriety of interrogating john walker lindh without his attorney. my office got that kind of question all the time. . that was routine bread-and-butter question. . and i advise, no, you cannot question and interrogate someone if they are represented by counsel. meanwhile, there was the famous trophy photo of him, naked, blindfolded, gagged, and with epithets written all over him. foreshadowed what later happened at abu ghraib. clearly, this was an individual who was being tortured so i am under a gag order and cannot go into that aspect of it too much. suffice it to say the fbi ignored my advice, interrogated john walker lindh anyway and then wanted to know what to do. so at that point, i said, not to worry, you can see a lot the interrogation and use it for national security and intelligence purposes but not for criminal prosecution. which is

duty the day that i got a call that we had captured our first prisoner in the afghanistan war, john walker lindh, quickly dubbed the american taliban. i was told unambiguously that he had a lawyer and the criminal division wanted to know about the ethical propriety of interrogating john walker lindh without his attorney. my office got that kind of question all the time. that was routine bread-and-butter question. and i advised, no, you cannot question and interrogate someone if they are represented by counsel. meanwhile, there was the famous trophy photo of him, naked, blindfolded, gagged, and with epithets written all over him. it very much foreshadowed what later happened at abu ghraib. clearly, this was an individual who was being tortured so i am under a gag order and cannot go into that aspect of it too much. but suffice it to say the fbi ignored my advice, interrogated john walker lindh anyway and then wanted to know what to do. so at that point, i said, not to worry, you can see a lot the off the interrogation and use it for national security and intelligence purposes but not for criminal