Appeals court rules against Ashcroft in 9/11 case

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[JoeProBono]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11.

[JoeProBono]

FILE - In this Thursday, June 21, 2009 file photo, former Attorney General John Ashcroft talks to reporters after meeting with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence about the controversy regarding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, , at the Capitol in Washington. A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, to the Bush administration's detention policies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, file)

[FlingWingFlyer]

The pro-Taliban/Al Qaeda faction in this country are out for revenge for the asskicking their pals got, and are still getting, in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Federal “courts” seem hell bent on helping them get it. I guess people have forgotten about what happened on 09-11-01.

[torchthemummy]

But the judges also noted that as the case moves forward, al-Kidd will have a significant burden to show that Ashcroft himself was personally involved in an illegal policy.

So the article mentions that a similar suit was dismissed recently because higher ups couldn't be shown to have had personal responsibility for a specific case. And yet here seemingly Ashcroft is deemed personally guilty because he talked about the general policy of detaining suspected material witnesses, in this case that this guy's roommate was complicit with terrorists.

The article of course, leaves out details like what immigration violations were charged and where he was going when arrested at Dulles Airport.