The family still had litigation before the court on this matter, when federal agents stormed the family residence.
Due process is either a reasoned concept or it isn't. Evidently the Clinton administration deemed that it wasn't.
A final decision from the highest court in the land should have been handed down, BEFORE federal agents were turned lose on Elian's relatives. Even then, the family should have been given the opportunity to hand Elian over in an orderly manor, after all appeals had been reviewed and denied.
There are valid claims by both sides regarding who should have been given final custody of Elian. The courts and not the Clinton administration should have had the final say on the matter.
I remember at that time a Senator urged the family to go to a church and stay there. That the government could not come in there. But they trusted their legal reps. Legal reps who were working both sides of the story. What was his name who was clintons lawyer and took their case on?
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! You are exactly right!
Also;
He was not taken to either an INS center or the appropriate place for custody hearings.
He was taken by gov jet to an Air Force base. Now Reno had no juridiction over anything military.
Only Clinton could have orderd that.
This was way out of proper channels.
Clinton ordered the anti-judidial abduction through violent means.