Community | June 16, 2008 | 7 comments

Supreme Court to decide on a lawsuit against John Ashcroft

source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0617/p02s01-usju.html

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Four days after handing the Bush administration a major setback in its approach to the war on terror, the US Supreme Court has set the stage for another showdown over controversial antiterror policies.

On Monday, the nation's highest court agreed to decide how much evidence is needed to sustain a lawsuit seeking to hold former Attorney General John Ashcroft and current FBI Director Robert Mueller personally responsible for harsh antiterror policies that allegedly led to abuses of detainees in US prisons.

The issue arises in a suit filed by a Pakistani Muslim held for seven months in solitary confinement in a Brooklyn prison after being wrongly suspected of involvement in terrorism after 9/11. Javaid Iqbal was deported to Pakistan after the FBI determined he was not a terrorist.

Government lawyers asked that the suit be thrown out. But a federal judge and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York have allowed the case to move forward.
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7 comments // Supreme Court to decide on a lawsuit against John Ashcroft

  • bornfreeid
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  

    • I don't think it will happen, but he may expose the others, through testimony 'under oath'? He wouldn't sign off on George W.'s illegal wire tapping. George W. might not be as apt to give him a 'get out of jail free' card like Scooter Libby who 'obstructed justice' and didn't have to spend a day in Jail.

      John Ashcroft might not be so lucky, he may sing like a bird. I'm sure he doesn't want to be the fall guy. There are too many people involved in all their misdeeds for things to stay hidden much longer.

      I would like to see the Democrats campaing in '08, using facts. Facts that aren't pretty! Facts that when exposed shows the criminality of what George W. did.

    • 3 years ago
  • Elligirl
  • huntre
  • Blazesboy
  • Robroy1
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      Robroy1  

    • Puttng one of these criminals in prison is a start and I hope just the beginning of a long list. I hope he is put on trial and jailed along with the rest of his buddies.

    • 3 years ago
  • onechance
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