Report documents abuse under Patriot Act

[Ripley]

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/07/21/abuse/index.html

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July 21, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Justice Department investigation into more than 1,000 recent claims of civil rights and civil liberties violations under the anti-terrorism USA Patriot Act concluded that 34 were credible, according to a report released Monday.

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There were 1,073 complaints forwarded to Fine's office during the six-month period. Of those, 431 were found to be outside the inspector general's jurisdiction. They mainly involved other federal agencies.

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So how do they know those 431 are "not credible" just because they don't have jurisdiction? Could it possibly be that the INS or any other agency abused civil rights? That would make it about 50% of the cases.

[dArKeR]

1. Arab and Muslim immigrants were beaten in federal detention

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/21/attack/main564189.shtml

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/