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Civil Liberties Under Ashcroft

Steve sent this alarming New Republic article about ongoing abuses of the material-witness statute. The statute is intended to allow the detention of uncooperative or fugitive witnesses to crimes, but foreign nationals are being imprisoned for months at a time as "material wtinesses" to nothing in particular, in the name of the Fight Against Terrorism.

Thanks, Steve!

Posted by Songdog on April 17, 2002 09:36 AM |

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