Posted on 09/16/2001 12:38:13 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:00:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Three suspects in the bloodiest terrorist attack in U.S. history were in federal custody in New York three months ago - and set free, The Post has learned.
The three were taken into custody last June after Federal Protective Service cops spotted them brazenly snapping reconnaissance photos of 26 Federal Plaza, federal law-enforcement and military-intelligence sources said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Apparently.
This is ridiculous, and Schiliro knows it. The camel jockeys were not photographing monuments or tourist attractions. They were photographing security assets at a building that has no attraction to tourists, but is a government/law enforcement complex. The FBI had a responsibility to hold them under investigative detention until their identities could be verified. That shouldn't have taken very long. Property--the film--WAS confiscated. Once it was developed, they should have sought the terrorists out after letting them go. If they could not be found, an alert bulletin should have been issued.
Everytime something like this happens, American citizens wind up with fewer "civil liberties," but camel jockeys have "rights," even when they are not citizens. It makes no sense.
But they probably wanted to ship the film to some bureau affiliated developing source where the turn-around time is a couple of weeks.
But they probably wanted to ship the film to some bureau affiliated developing source where the turn-around time is a couple of weeks.
Of course I'm sure they have been released by now, wouldn't want to be accused of profiling.
I wish I could say I feel confident with the FBI and CIA in charge of rounding up these terrorists but I don't. I have lost faith in an organization that by all appearances appears not only incompetent but more likely corrupt to the core.
MKM
You ACLU types are the very ones who have beat the drums for the hamstringing of the FBI over many years, now we all sow what YOU have reaped.
Yes, we will rub it in your face.
And we let them murder us with impunity.
Go figger.
Unfortunately, the latter. The Founders, regrettably, used the word "person" pretty much interchangeably with "citizen".
That is why I have been advocating for a long time an amendment that would:
- Repeal the Fourteenth Amendment;
- Stress that the rights enumerated in the BoR pertain to citizens;
- Define "citizen" as a person who has one or both parents who are citizens--or who is naturallized. Being born on U.S. soil would not suffice to give anyone citizenship.
In the past, these ideas had zero chance of being adopted. Now I'd give it merely 100-to-1 odds against.
--Boris
And since you have libertarian in your name, how would you feel if you knew the FBI was watching you after you did something that they deemed suspicious? I will not trade the 4th and 6th ammendments for terrorists. If we do, the terrorists have won.
Bush and Ashcroft have got themsleves backed up against the wall with their capitulation to liberals and minorities on "racial profiling".
Today and yesterday I have heard both of them say that American citizens needed to have a "heightened" sense of security or alertness. Neither Bush nor Ashcfrot would name the thing we are suppossed to have a heightened sense of awareness about. As a nation what are we suppossed to be "alert" about right now? A tree? A 90 year old man in a wheelchair? A 7 year old child? A pregnant woman?
What are we suppossed to be alert about? Possible enemies and terrorists, people we should not trust. Who are they? Right now Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent. Background checks and valid deportations are in order pronto.
God help us all.
Certainly they do.
Just not as many as U.S. Citizens.
Unlike yourself, I do not value citizenship so cheaply. Does the Bill of Rights mean nothing? Nothing, I mean, in comparison to the rights enjoyed by, say, a citizen of North Korea?
If U.S. citizens have no more rights than subjects of the Taliban, would you agree to emigrate to Afghanistan right now? I'd buy you a ticket.
--Boris
This turns the idea that all men are created equal right on its head. That the government of Afghanistan doesn't exist to protect those rights is not a reason to deny everyone who comes here the "...inaliananble rights endowed by their Creator."
Three suspects in the bloodiest terrorist attack in U.S. history were in federal custody in New York three months ago - and set free,You know, that's the way it works in our country, a country based on laws and not the simple whims of law enforcement ...... Schiliro said detaining the three men until more complete background checks were made might have raised the controversial issue of "profiling" suspects and violated their civil liberties.
It's tough to get your exact type of cake - and *then* get the time to eat it at your leisure too ...
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