The federal government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian who was among dozens of Muslim men swept up in the New York area after 9/11, held for months in a federal detention center in Brooklyn and deported after being cleared of links to terrorism.
The settlement, filed in federal court late yesterday, is the first the government has made in a number of lawsuits charging that noncitizens were abused and their constitutional rights violated in detentions after the terror attacks. - NY Times
"Kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
But we don't DO that.
We don't torture. We just pay 300,000 grand to settle lawsuits about. Because we don't torture.
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