Lawyer for Accused Fort Hood Shooter Details Client's Terms of Confinement

Belton, Texas, solo John Galligan, who represents Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who allegedly went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, says he has learned the precise terms of his client's pretrial confinement.
Hasan is paralyzed from the chest down and bedridden in a military hospital in San Antonio, says Galligan. He says the U.S. Army command has imposed rules that allow for a closed-circuit television camera in Hasan's room for Hasan's and others' safety; bar visits from anyone except Hasan's family members and his lawyers (Galligan and Hasan's appointed military defense counsel, Major Christopher E. Martin) and limit those visits to one hour (Galligan does not know if this time limit is per day or per visitor); require all visitors to provide picture identification; restrict all communications with Hasan to English; and require that an interpreter be present if another language is spoken.
Galligan says the rules are more restrictive than what his criminal defense clients in the Bell County jail endure and he believes they may violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice that bars pretrial confinement from being more onerous than necessary.
Two telephone messages left on the public affairs voice mail at Fort Hood were not immediately returned. Fort Hood Headquarters and Headquarters Troop Unit Commander Capt. Jacob Huber, under whom Galligan says his client now serves, also did not immediately return a call seeking comment.