Supreme Court takes up suit over 2001 detention of Muslims

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press


SATURDAY, JAN 14, 2017 09:30 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ahmer Abbasi speaks softly as he describes the strip searches, the extra shoves, the curses that he endured in a federal jail in Brooklyn following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Abbasi tells The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his home in Karachi, Pakistan, that he doesn’t “think I deserved it.”

Abbasi’s quiet, matter-of-fact tone belies his determination, 15 years after his detention, to seek justice in American courts — provided the Supreme Court will let him.

The justices on Wednesday are hearing an appeal from former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller and other former U.S. officials. They want to shut down the lawsuit that human rights lawyers have filed on behalf of Abbasi and others over their harsh treatment and prolonged detention.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/01/14/supreme-court-takes-up-suit-over-2001-detention-of-muslims/

[cstanleytech]

1. These cases cause me to doubt that some of those in elected office ever read

the Declaration of Independence or if they have then they clearly the skipped the part near the beginning where it specifically says
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."