Robert Gensburg

Robert Gensburg is an American lawyer working in the state of Vermont.cite news
url=http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071011/NEWS/71011021/-1/NEWS05
title=Firm with overses clients says feds are bugging phones, computers
publisher=Burlington Free Press
author=Wilson Ring
date=Thursday October 11 2007
accessdate=2007-10-11] Gensburg is notable for volunteering to assist a captive held in extrajudicial detention in the USA's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

On January 6 2000 the House and Senate of the Vermont legislature honored Gensburg with a joint resolution, sending him their best wishes upon his diagnosed with leukemia.cite news
url=http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2000/acts/actr183.htm
title=NO. R-183. JOINT RESOLUTION EXTENDING BEST WISHES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY TO ROBERT GENSBURG OF ST. JOHNSBURY.
publisher=Vermont legislature
date=January 6 2000
accessdate=2008-01-05]

Gensburg reported on October 2 2007 that working for a Guantanamo client has led to his firm's phone, mail and email being intercepted.cite news
url=http://blogs.govexec.com/techinsider/archives/2007/10/more_accusations_of_federal_ph.php
title=Lawyers Accuse Feds of Tapping Phone, Hacking
publisher=Government Executive
author=Allan Holmes
date=Friday, October 12, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05] cite news
url=http://www.abajournal.com/news/law_firm_feds_tapped_our_phones/
title=Law Firm to Clients: Feds Tapped Our Phones
publisher=ABA Journal
author=Martha Neil
date=October 11, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05] A letter sent to their clients warned them of their belief the firm's communication was being intercepted, and stated: quotation|“Although our investigation is not complete, we are quite confident that it is the United States government that has been doing the phone tapping and computer hacking,”

Vermont Congressman Peter Welch spoke about the wiretapping of Gensburg's phones, and computers when he was interviewed on Vermont Public Radio's Vermont Edition on Friday November 30, 2007.cite news
url=http://www.vpr.net/episode/42256/
title=Vermont Edition: interview with Congressman Peter Welch
publisher=Vermont Public Radio
author=Bob Kinzel
date=Friday November 30, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05]

Guantanamo clients

The Montpelier Times Argus reports that Gensburg had great difficulty getting to meet his Guantanamo clients.cite news
url=http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070514/OPINION01/705140303/1021/OPINION01
title=Open the dungeons
publisher=Montpelier Times Argus
date=May 14, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05]

Gensburg represents Abdul Zahir, several other captives in Guantanamo, and a captive in American custody in Afghanistan.
Carol Rosenberg, [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-12433410.html 10th Guantanamo captive facing war-crimes charges] , "Miami Herald", January 20, 2006] cite news
url=http://www.wptz.com/news/14318208/detail.html
title=Vt. Law Firm Accuses Government Of Wiretapping
publisher=WPTZ
date=Thursday October 11 2007
accessdate=2007-10-11] Abdul Zahir was one of the ten captives who faced charges before a version of the Guantanamo military commission that was ruled unconstitutional bye the Supreme Court of the United States.

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*cite news
url=http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070923/FEATURES15/709230301/1030/FEATURES15
title=Is Vermont lawyer being wiretapped?
publisher=Rutland Herald
date=September 23, 2007
accessdate=2007-10-10
*cite news
url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2007/09/26/vt_seeks_to_resume_wiretapping_probe/
title=Vt. seeks to resume wiretapping probe: Phone companies' alleged role queried
publisher=Boston Globe
author=Wilson Ring
date=September 26, 2007
accessdate=2007-10-11
*cite news
url=http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070919/NEWS/70919020/-1/NEWS05
title=Lawyer for Guantanamo prisoner fears phone was tapped
publisher=Burlington Free Press
date=September 23 2007
accessdate=2007-10-11
*cite news
url=http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=7097334&nav=menu183_2
title=Lawyer for Guantanamo prisoner fears phone was tapped
publisher=WCAX
date=September 19, 2007
accessdate=2007-10-11