Court Says 9/11 Witnesses Can Sue Ashcroft --Material witness laws used detain former student for two weeks A federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft may be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a harshly worded ruling handed down Friday, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the government's use of material witnesses after Sept. 11 "repugnant to the Constitution and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history." The court found that [U.S. citizen] Abdullah Al-Kidd who was detained as a witness in a federal terrorism case can sue Ashcroft for allegedly violating his constitutional rights.
US probes USAID funds in Afghanistan --US funding contractors who pay Taliban The State Department said Thursday that an investigation has begun into whether U.S. development funding for Afghanistan is being diverted to local warlords and extremists following allegations that road and bridge contractors were paying "protection" money to the Taliban. Spokesman P.J. Crowley said the U.S. Agency for International Development is looking into reports that some funds may be going to the Taliban and others as part of a larger probe into other diversions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in Afghanistan.
US probes USAID funds in Afghanistan --US funding contractors who pay Taliban The State Department said Thursday that an investigation has begun into whether U.S. development funding for Afghanistan is being diverted to local warlords and extremists following allegations that road and bridge contractors were paying "protection" money to the Taliban. Spokesman P.J. Crowley said the U.S. Agency for International Development is looking into reports that some funds may be going to the Taliban and others as part of a larger probe into other diversions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in Afghanistan.
A 'dire warning': Working families' wages collapsing as gov't aid surges.
Chalabi aide: I went from White House to secret U.S. prisoner --'His bizarre tale appears to be another example of how the Bush administration turned to Shiite Iraqi exiles, including Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, for intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and ties to terrorism, most of which turned out to be false or exaggerated, then later accused them of collaborating with Iran against the U.S. presence.' U.S. authorities detained a top aide to former Iraqi exile leader and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi last year and accused him of helping Iranian-backed militants kidnap and kill American and British soldiers and contractors. The aide, Ali Feisal al Lami, said he was quizzed about Iranian agents, senior Shiite Muslim politicians and deadly bombings. Then, Lami said, he asked his American interrogator: Have you ever been to the White House? "He said, 'No,' " Lami told McClatchy. "I told him, 'Well, I have.' "
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