The Bush Administration Needs No More Secret Powers
More on the the long, incompetent arm of the law --about the FBI foul-up that caused a vacationing 72 year old Englishman to spend 20 days in a South African prison.
The horror story that unfolded for Bond over the next month is a cautionary tale as the Bush administration presses Congress to expand authorization for secretive arrests, unlimited detention and a curtailment of judicial review. And Bond's case didn't even involve terrorism, just what was apparently a stolen identity and incredible inattention by U.S. government officials, including some in Houston. The response of the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office so far has been acknowledgment that they screwed up and the cheeky suggestion that Bond's cooperation contributed to his predicament.We don't want to see this get buried. Here's our post from yesterday on it: How do you prove your innocence?
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