The Pentagon recorded 18 phone calls between the ACLU attorneys and their client, who is being held for allegedly fighting for ISIS, the Justice Department filing said. The Pentagon "deeply regrets" the "inadvertent breach" of attorney-client communications, the filing said. The government properly informed us that it recorded and screened our client's privileged communications, and we will hold the government to its commitment to address this breach." The Pentagon had arranged for the prisoner's attorneys to take his phone calls from a conference room at the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York instead of from Washington, DC, for their convenience, the Justice Department filing said. However, Defense Department personnel who arranged for the calls were unaware they would be recorded as part of a "routine DoD security monitoring of DoD telecommunications systems," it said.

Source: CNN June 02, 2018 15:22 UTC