It's recommended.

You wear a hijab visiting your client.

We've had incidents of inmates spitting at female lawyers.

You want to represent the head recruiter for 9 11?

Muhammadu Old sloppy Mauritanian held in Guantanamo.

He recruited the guys who flew your friends playing into the south tower.

He put those men on my husband's plane.

I'm gonna make him pay in the event the detainee lunges for you.

Push back away from the table.

We're getting there as quick as we can.

Yeah, I'm Nancy Hollander.

This is my associate you wish to represent.

You weigh are seeking the death penalty.

But if we miss something, this guy goes home.

Let's get Thio.

Call this number script to my mother.

Tell her I don't know something nice.

Theo U S government is holding upwards of 700 prisoners.

Guantanamo?

Since when did we start locking people up without a trial in this country?

That's a lot of case files.

The prosecution won't show us the evidence they have against you.

It's all redacted.

You got a problem?

Take it up.

The government all my time.

here.

I have been told you're guilty.

Not for something that I have done, but because of suspicions and associations.

I am innocents.

He has been interrogated.

He has been held against his will for six years without a single charge being laid against him.

Doesn't it bother you at all working for something like this?

I'm not just defending him.

I'm defending the rule of law.

You haven't seen what I've seen.

Where I'm from in Mauritania.

We know not to trust the police, but never did.

I believe that the United States of America will use fear and terror to control me.

A couple of simples nights.

That's all along.

I've never been part of a conspiracy.

But I'm starting to think this is what it must feel like to be on the outside of your ever thinking this either wear the jersey or get off the field.

You need to tell me what happened to you.

I can't defend you.

Do you understand that?

You asked me to set fire to this place.

But im e, maybe he's guilty.

Maybe.

Is like we're doing our job.

I'm not welcome home.

That's not a part of my job.

if I'm wrong when it comes to my record and I'm the one that I have to answer for.

What makes you think you're any better than the rest of us?

I don't think I better than anybody else.

That is support.

For eight years, I have been dreaming of being in a courtroom.

Now that I'm here, I'm scared to death.

You know, I think I've figured out why they built Guantanamo down there.

My client is not a suspect.

He's a witness.

Mr.

Slahi, would you please raise your right hand and repeat after me?

The Mauritanian?

Yeah.