Wired: "Hawash, a US citizen, was arrested last month by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force." [Scripting News]
Very scary.
Very scary indeed. I had read this earlier, but in re-reading it I noticed something interesting that I missed the first time around.
_"The 1984 material witness statute was designed to coax testimony from unwilling witnesses or those likely to flee the country. But since Sept. 11, authorities have made widespread use of the statute to detain suspects indefinitely without charging them with any crime."
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Anyone else think that's an interesting year for such a law to have been passed? :)