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defrogITEM: The US Supreme Court declines to review the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against the US govt by Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who, under suspicion of being connected to Al Qaeda, was sent by US authorities to be tortured in Syria for almost a year.
Turned out he was completely innocent, you see. Which is why Canada – which provided the US with the bad tipoff on Arar to start with – investigated the case, found they screwed up, and gave Arar $10.2 million and an official apology.
The US, on the other hand, has kept Arar and his family on a watch list, and has argued in US courts that he can’t sue the US govt because it would endanger national security – an argument the Bush-led DOJ used all the time, and the Obama-led DOJ continues to use in this case and others – even though Obama said during his 2008 campaign that he would put an end to such things.
As Jon Stewart will now demonstrate.
I've posted about this issue before, and I’m not sure what worries me more – the likelihood that Obama is doing this simply because some chart says it’s his best ticket to re-election, or that the only other option in 2012 will probably be Sarah Palin.
Case dismissed,
This is dF
Turned out he was completely innocent, you see. Which is why Canada – which provided the US with the bad tipoff on Arar to start with – investigated the case, found they screwed up, and gave Arar $10.2 million and an official apology.
The US, on the other hand, has kept Arar and his family on a watch list, and has argued in US courts that he can’t sue the US govt because it would endanger national security – an argument the Bush-led DOJ used all the time, and the Obama-led DOJ continues to use in this case and others – even though Obama said during his 2008 campaign that he would put an end to such things.
As Jon Stewart will now demonstrate.
I've posted about this issue before, and I’m not sure what worries me more – the likelihood that Obama is doing this simply because some chart says it’s his best ticket to re-election, or that the only other option in 2012 will probably be Sarah Palin.
Case dismissed,
This is dF
