Arar Sues Ashcroft

[PygmyPlaidGiraffe]

Information about innocent people caught in police investigations is stored in a national security database... that information can be passed to U.S. authorities if they request it.

 

[fishbob]

Why is it okay to subvert the constitution of the US?
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Because we are at war.

LostAngeles - HA, subtle indeed.

The point at which we subvert the constitution because we are at war is the point at which we lose the war. So many people seem to not understand this.

 

[PygmyPlaidGiraffe]

Outsourcing torture

Torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture...

Pres. G Bush, Jan 27th 2005.

Although [Arar] initially tried to assert his innocence, he eventually confessed to anything his tormentors wanted him to say.... Arar, it turned out, had been sent to Syria on orders from the U.S. government, under a secretive program known as “extraordinary rendition.”