Did U.S. Push Detention Of American Without Charges?

McClatchy Washington Bureau :

WASHINGTON - An American Muslim subjected to several years of intense FBI scrutiny and questioning about links to terrorism has been held without charges, access to a lawyer or contact with his family for nearly three months by the security services of the United Arab Emirates.

The case of Naji Hamdan, coupled with FBI interrogations of an American citizen secretly detained without charges in East Africa, raises the question of whether the Bush administration has asked other nations to hold Americans suspected of terrorism links whom U.S. officials lack the evidence to charge.

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Comments

[Chavez08]

"Hey America! Terrists are behind ya! Pull my finger!...­heheheh...­"

[Chavez08]

Did the toddler reach for the cookie when the jar was left open on the floor?

[research]

We have Known of at least one American whisked away with no or trumped up charges.

How many others is a matter of nations security.

Where did that Bill of Rights thing go anyway?

[tlgeiger62]

I'm sorry ... was there really a question out there about the Bush administration doing such a thing? Seems par for this course. No?

[helonias]

Inalienable rights?

[That Guy]

What are those?

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[CSDofNM]

There are none. Rights are more properly described as privileges, able to be circumscribed and reduced by the government's whim. There is no precedent that says the Government, barred of legal means to do something, may not use other means to do so.

Of course, the same applies to Microsoft.