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U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 4:54:31 PM   
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday.

The men claimed they suffered inhumane and degrading treatment in a Brooklyn detention center, including solitary confinement, severe beatings, incessant verbal abuse and a blackout on communications with their families and attorneys.

Rachel Meeropol, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights who brought the case in Brooklyn federal court, said it was the largest settlement so far for claims of abuse in the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The Justice Department agreed to settle the suit, which was filed in 2002 after hundreds of immigrants were rounded up and held for months following the attacks, according to the CCR.

...The lawsuit, which sued top Bush administration officials including former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, was one of many that accused the Bush administration of disregarding constitutional rights.

The claims against Ashcroft and others are continuing. The CCR is also seeking to bring claims on behalf of five new plaintiffs.
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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 5:02:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		so, now does that money go against Obamas deficit, or is the trial and judgement and caterwaling about how it is constitutional to torture and deny due process and all that get set under a revised Bush deficit spending number?



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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 5:54:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		The lawyers get 1/3rd. All the rest get 200 grand. Under Obama they will probably get that money taxed at 40%. They might be able to buy a new car when it is over.

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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 5:56:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		well good, I am glad Obama isn't a spend and borrow republican. tax it.

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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 6:18:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		He is a tax and spend liberal.

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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 7:17:11 PM   
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He is a tax and spend liberal.


thats a new and unique turn of phrase you've coined, do you mind if I borrow it?

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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 7:19:25 PM   
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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 7:25:35 PM   
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He is a tax and spend liberal.


If only we could turn back the clock to the days of Uncle Ronnie and Dubya, when we learned to live within our means.

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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 7:34:41 PM   
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He is a tax and spend liberal.


W. didn't tax us?

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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 7:39:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		The tax rate was lowered for all incomes under President Bush. Those lower tax rates will expire under the current administration. That alone will raise everyones taxes..

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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/3/2009 9:42:05 PM   
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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/4/2009 4:37:11 AM   
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The lawyers get 1/3rd. All the rest get 200 grand. Under Obama they will probably get that money taxed at 40%. They might be able to buy a new car when it is over.


I suspected that damnable socialist must have had a hand in all this

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RE: U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse - 11/4/2009 11:48:36 AM   
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The tax rate was lowered for all incomes under President Bush. Those lower tax rates will expire under the current administration. That alone will raise everyones taxes..
Yep good old President Bush.....lowered taxes while running two "off the books" wars.Leading predictably to deficits....now along comes President Obama who will correctly allow those ill advised lower tax rates to expire.....and you and everyone else on your side of the aisle will refer to that as tax increases.....while simultaneously decrying the National Debt.
Please do make up your minds.

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