Posted on 09/19/2009 8:42:01 PM PDT by Saije
Airplane shoe bomber Richard C. Reid no longer faces severe limits on his prison activities or communications after the Obama administration quietly ended years of hard-nosed curbs against the British-born al-Qaeda terrorist.
This summer the Justice Department halted six years of measures that kept Reid from associating or praying with fellow jailed Muslim terrorists, and limited his access to the news media and pen pals.
That move has outraged victims of al-Qaeda and security experts. The recommendation to lift the restrictions was made with input from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, which prosecuted Reid in 2002, federal officials said...
Over the last six years, the U.S. Justice Department annually renewed special restrictions on Reid, including limits on who he could call and write to and on the kinds of articles he could read or TV channels he could watch. They also banned him from group prayers.
Reid, 36, appealed the restrictions within the federal Bureau of Prisons several times, to no avail. In 2007, the London-born terrorist filed a lawsuit against the government alleging the restrictions violated his First Amendment rights.
On June 17 - after two years spent fighting Reid’s lawsuit - federal prosecutors notified the courts that the restrictions, called “special administrative measures,” or SAMs, would not be renewed.
The decision to let the SAMs lapse was based on a “collective assessment of the potential threat posed by Reid’s communications and contacts,” said Department of Justice spokesman Dean Boyd.
That assessment was made by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, the FBI and the DOJ counterterrorism section, Boyd said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
OFGoshS
Why doesn’t Zero just come out and admit he’s a terrorist lover.
Refresh my memory —how much did we pay for each of those Uighurs to go swim and live on the beach in the BAHAMAS...?
I remember this fool at his sentencing —he was arrogant as hell, and even AMUSED. He was completely “in your face” about wanted jihad, and he treated the proceedings like some kind of joke.
“Free as a bird and guitly as sin, what a country..!” —Bill Ayers
This administration has spent its whole time easing restrictions on terrorists, seeking to make them more comfortable, and all the while, restricting our abilities to fight them in the middle east. He has done everything he possibly can to coddle our enemies while weaking our own abilities. Can there be any doubt that he shares the ideas and feelings of Jerimiah Wright???
But have we sent him an apology yet? Otherwise he should continue his lawsuit until we submit or pay tribute.
...however the quote from domestic terrorist and Marxist Obama BFF is...
“Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country...”
(No difference in contemptuous, anti-American meaning, n'est ce pas?)
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Reid should be thrown in a hole and covered up permanently just for TSA’s resulting requirement that we all now have to take our shoes off at the screening checkpoints and walk through bare-footed on the nasty airport floors.
zero just has so much thuggery which he chooses to use against Americans....
Look for the “Mumia and Reid” talk show coming soon on NPR.
How soon we forget how many children were on that 747 that night. And he wanted to kill them all.
Hubby and I are beginning to watch, “Liberty - An American Revolution” and IT IS INCREDIBLE. WORD FOR WORD WHAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW. ...Down to Glenn Beck at Tom Payne. If you exchange England for Obama and you’ve got the same feelings/passions/determination of the masses to stop the insanity that’s going on right now. It’s like a road map for our future. It’s remarkably similar!!!! PLEASE EVERYONE WATCH THIS.
“I’m surprised the Obama people aren’t just releasing him on “compassionate” grounds.”
Don’t give ‘em any ideas;)
If this keeps up, Reid may end up with an invite for a guest appearance on one of BO’s Beer With Barry “teachable moments”.
This has got to Stop: The Racist America Hating Government is out of Control!!
What were they guilty of, or even accused of?
Put him in stocks near a security check point of a busy Airport. Sell rotten vegetables.
If the really obscure concept of aiding, abetting, and practicing terrorism escapes you, how about that they did their damndest to eventually bring about the situation where you, personally, would be made to kneel and accept Allah, on pain of sawing your precious head off?
Clear yet?
Sell fire ants and scorpions.
We want him to tour ALL the busy Airports. We'll do the fire ants/scorpion thingy at the last Airport.
;-)
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