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Dan Eggen
Homeland Security spokesman Bill Strassberger and other officials said a new border-control effort set to begin Jan. 5 ... will play a similar role in monitoring visitors. The program will use photographs and fingerprints to log entries and exits at major U.S. airports and seaports." [more]
"The master watch list will be tapped by thousands of federal law enforcement officers and many others ? from small-town cops making traffic stops to airport workers screening passengers to personnel managers checking on applicants for jobs at nuclear plants." [more]
"Ashcroft has always been one of the Bush administration's most controversial figures ... but now the attorney general finds himself at odds with some fellow Republicans from Idaho to Capitol Hill who are troubled by the extent of his anti-terrorism tactics and angered by his unwillingness to compromise." [more]
"A legal advocacy group filed papers yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles challenging the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act, the broad antiterrorism law that has come under increasing attacks in recent weeks in the courts and Congress. " [more]
"The report found that 54 of the 762 detainees were held for more than three months, despite objections from officials in the former Immigration and Naturalization Service that they should be released with 'reasonable dispatch.' " [more]
"The U.S. government fumbled repeated opportunities to stop many of the men responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks from entering the country, missing fraudulent passports and other warning signs that should have attracted greater scrutiny." [more]
"Thousands of foreign visitors from predominantly Muslim countries will be given a second chance to register with U.S. immigration authorities because the turnout for earlier deadlines was dampened by widespread fear and confusion about the program, officials said yesterday." [more]
"Since a clumsy start last month — when at least 200 Iranian visitors were arrested in Los Angeles alone — the program has turned into a mounting public relations problem for the Bush administration." [more]
"Hundreds of Middle Eastern, Iranian and other men and teenagers were arrested this week after registering with federal immigration officers, and their supporters today charged that the detentions were not catching terrorists but harassing immigrants." [more]
"The withdrawal came as a surprising and disappointing setback for the White House, where officials had been convinced that Kissinger's name would bring credibility to an enterprise they had once resisted." [more]
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(Reuters, Dec 18)
"Federal prison officers in Brooklyn physically and verbally abused immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, slamming them against the wall and painfully twisting their arms and hands, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Thursday." [more]
(STAFF, DEBKAfile, Dec 14)
"Saddam was seized, possibly with the connivance of his own men, and held in that hole in Adwar for three weeks or more, which would have accounted for his appearance and condition. Meanwhile, his captors bargained for the $25m prize the Americans promised for information leading to his capture alive or dead." [more] |
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