WSJ.com - U.S.-Born Taliban Detainee To Meet His Attorney:

"A U.S.-born man captured in Afghanistan and held by the military for more than two years will meet with an attorney for the first time on Tuesday, a federal public defender said.
Frank Dunham, the federal public defender in Alexandria, Va., said he would meet Yaser Hamdi at the military brig in Charleston, S.C., on 8 a.m. Tuesday. But the meeting will take place under conditions Mr. Dunham called onerous. A military officer will be present, the meeting will be recorded and Mr. Hamdi will be barred from discussing the conditions of his confinement, Mr. Dunham said.
'For all those reasons, the meeting will be very short and lacking much substance,' Mr. Dunham said. But despite those restrictions, 'it would be inhumane not to go down there and tell him what's going on.' The public defender said that since the government considers anything Mr. Hamdi or others held as enemy combatants to be classified, he would not be able to discuss anything Mr. Hamdi might tell him."