[Sabertooth]

As to Gaffney's question "what are we to make" of the arrest of the elder Al-Arian, the answer is obvious. This administration enforces the law.

And that's a good thing, as far as it goes. Clearly, the Bush Administration has restored a great deal of integrity to the Justice Department, after Janet Reno's eight-year malfeasance.

However, what are we to make of the efforts of Khaled Saffuri, co-founder with Grover Norquist of the Islamic Institute, to intervene on the behalf of the Safa Trust in a meeting with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill last year, after warrants were served on Safa investigating their financial links with terror orgs (link)? Isn't this troubling, given that Norquist has acknowledged that the Islamic Institute has received donations from the Safa Trust (link)?

I'm not saying that the investigation has been influenced, but why was Saffuri even given the opportunity to weigh in, given the clear conflict of interest?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Why is it that you continually assign guilt to what is actually just an accusation?

Since when, is the mere act of speaking up in one's own defense not allowed in the US?

In the US, people are found guilty of crimes in a Court of Law, via due proccess. Why is it that you continually regard innuendo as fact?