Gitanjali S. Gutierrez is the lawyer for the defendant Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is held at Camp Delta

Camp Delta

Camp Delta is a permanent detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. Its first facilities were built between February 27 and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root...

 in Guantanamo Bay

Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan and later Iraq...

 by the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Military

Military

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Gitanjali Gutierrez is an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Constitutional Rights

Al Odah v. United States:Al Odah is the latest in a series of habeas corpus petitions on behalf of people imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The case challenges the Military Commissions system’s suitability as a habeas corpus substitute and the legality, in general, of detention at...

, a New York-based nonprofit organization.

The Toronto Star

Toronto Star

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 quoted Gutierrez, in a February 4, 2007 article,
states that Gutierrez was the first lawyer to visit a Guantanamo captive.
The article quotes Guiterrez about the emotional state of her clients, since her first visits to the camp:

• "They were just shell-shocked. They were getting news for the first time from outside."
• "It has been a downhill battle since ... and they now just struggle to maintain hope."
• "This place isn't just illegal, it's immoral, and I don't think the U.S. can afford to keep it open."

Gutierrez is one of the plaintiffs in CCR v. Bush

CCR v. Bush

In CCR v. Bush the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against the Bush Presidency, challenging the National Security Agency's surveillance of people within the United States, including the interception of CCR emails without securing a warrant first.The lawsuit was filed on January...

, filed on July 9, 2007.
Four other individuals filed this suit.
In addition to President Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

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the other defendants were, Keith B. Alexander

Keith B. Alexander

General Keith B. Alexander, USA is the current Director, National Security Agency , Chief, Central Security Service and Commander, United States Cyber Command. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, U.S. Army from 2003 to 2005...

 Director of the National Security Agency

National Security Agency

The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...

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Michael D. Maples

Michael D. Maples

Lieutenant General Michael David Maples, USA served as the 16th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency , appointed on November 4, 2005. He received his third star on November 29. Maples also commanded the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance ...

, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency

Defense Intelligence Agency

The Defense Intelligence Agency is a member of the Intelligence Community of the United States, and is the central producer and manager of military intelligence for the United States Department of Defense, employing over 16,500 U.S. military and civilian employees worldwide...

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Porter J. Goss

Porter J. Goss

Porter Johnston Goss is an American politician who was the first Director of National Intelligence and the last Director of Central Intelligence following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which abolished the DCI position...

, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...

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Michael Chertoff

Michael Chertoff

Michael Chertoff was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as assistant U.S. Attorney...

, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security;
Robert S. Mueller III, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...

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and John D. Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence.
Gutierrz and her colleagues were suing the US government to object to its interception of their mail, email and phone calls.

On October 15, 2007 Gutierrez wrote about her upcoming first meeting with Majid Khan.
Khan, a Pakistani who was a legal resident of the USA, who completed his high school and University education in Maryland

Maryland

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, is the first of the "high value detainees" to meet with a lawyer.
Majid Khan, and thirteen other captives, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah

Abu Zubaydah

Abu Zubaydah is a Saudi Arabian citizen, sentenced to death in Jordan and currently held in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Not neutral: Arrested in Pakistan in March 2002, he has been in US custody for more than eight years, four-and-a-half of them spent incommunicado in solitary confinement...

, were transferred from CIA custody, to military custody in Guantanamo, on September 6, 2006.
The high value detainees had been clandestinely held in the CIA's black sites.