There are some serious questions about the timing and the nature of this prosecution.
Now we find that the government concluded some 25 years ago that what our clients are being accused of today was not improper.
We think they are being inappropriately detained. Their presumption of innocence has been eviscerated. They are being punished for a crime they were not convicted of.
The presumption of innocence has disappeared. There are serious and troubling questions about these charges - their timing and purpose.
There was no national secrets, no national security secrets. There were no defense secrets or confidential information that was provided to anyone on the Cuban side of the equation.
They conducted the most intimate surveillance for the entire time. Don't you think that it would have come up? Had it existed, I can assure you the government would have brought it out already.