It seems that it happens every month, and when I say, “That’s it there is no way it could get any worse,” and each time I am wrong.

Now, they are using the Cuba embargo and anti-Terror regulations to prevent the Guantánamo Bay defense attorneys from being paid or reimbursed for expenses.

Note that these guys are billing at $250/hour when their normal rate would be north of $500 an hour, but they aren’t even getting that:

When U.S. law groups announced in April that they were hiring the nation’s top criminal defense lawyers to defend alleged al Qaeda terrorists at the war court here, one executive called the lawyers “The A Team.”

Now, they’re the No-Pay Team.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which has pledged to cover costs of civilian lawyers defending alleged arch-terrorists, is in a struggle with the U.S. Treasury Department over a permit to pay $250-an-hour fees and other expenses to attorneys who have been shuttling to this remote U.S. Navy base from as far as Boise, Idaho.

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I can do nothing but look at the screen with an expression on my face resembling that of a cow that just stepped on its own udder.