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...make our country worth defending: that everyone within our borders, whether permanently or just passing through, is entitled to equal protection and equal rights under the law, and that religion, race and ethnicity can never be grounds for discrimination. We betray our sacred commitment to these ideals when we detain Middle Eastern travelers without cause, and we betray the spirit behind these ideals when we forget what it feels like to be a victim of racial profiling—to be treated as an outsider, worthy neither of trust nor the protection of our Constitution...
...several instances, Republicans agreed to modify the harsh language of their original proposal. The Bush administration had asked for indefinite powers to detain immigrants, and Congress settled on a seven-day limit. The House also imposed a sunset provision on expanded surveillance measures—permission to use certain telephone and computer wiretaps without warrants will expire in four years rather than persist indefinitely...
Last week Congress dramatically expanded the government's power to detain those designated as suspected terrorists. Under the new law, those individuals can be held for questioning for up to seven days without being charged with a crime (the old limit was 48 hours). In special cases, the government can renew the detention orders for as long as six months. The Justice Department sought these powers partly because the Sept. 11 inquiry has shown how difficult it is to root out terrorists who hide as law-abiding citizens. But the policy of rounding up all suspects has irked some agents...
...Sept. 25, 2001 Kamel Daoudi apprehended by police in Leicester after escaping the Sept. 21 French sweep of the Beghal group. Daoudi had lived in Djamel Beghal?s Paris-area flat, where he is believed to have maintained secure Internet communications for the group Sept. 26, 2001 Spanish police detain Mohammed Belaziz, allegedly a would-be suicide bomber for the attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris, along with five other Algerians. Further arrests are made in Bosnia Sept. 29, 2001 Police in Wiesbaden, Germany take Talip Tolgay and two other terrorist suspects into custody. Weapons, fake identity and credit...
...Don’t Just Profile. Deport,” Coulter brazenly advocates cleansing American soil of Muslims, arguing that, since the government could not feasibly “perform a thorough investigation of a million Muslim immigrants, it would be easier to deport immigrants than to detain them.” Coulter’s appeal for ethnic cleansing has elicited widespread condemnation from fellow commentators. New York Times columnist Frank Rich said she was fueling “hysteria on the right;” Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam labeled her a “right-wing...