US top court rejects lawsuits over Bush-era abuse
AFP
18-May-2009 (one comment)

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A sharply divided US Supreme Court ruled Monday that the FBI director and Bush-era officials cannot be sued over the alleged abuse of terror suspects in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In a five-to-four ruling, the justices threw out a New York federal appeals court decision that stated FBI chief Robert Mueller, former attorney general John Ashcroft and other officials under then-president George W. Bush could be found liable for alleged mistreatment of terror suspects.

The complaint, brought by Pakistani detainee Javaid Iqbal, "fails to plead sufficient facts to state a claim for purposeful and unlawful discrimination against petitioners," the court ruled.

Iqbal, a Pakistani Muslim, was arrested in November 2001 on an immigration violation shortly after the attacks and jailed for five months in 2002 in a maximum-security prison in New York.

Iqbal claims, that like hundreds of other Arab Muslims, he was held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day for several months with the... >>>

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nojanthegreat

well vote was very close and

by nojanthegreat on Wed May 20, 2009 11:48 PM PDT

well vote was very close and that alone shows how law obeying and freedom loving the gov  realy is.


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