Bush detain policy

Former chief federal judge Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government round- ups of muslims in the days after the september eleven attacks. Six years later Michael Mukasey now nominee attorney general is set to testify in front of the committee about the Bush administrations terrorist detention policy. When he was chief judge in the federal courthouse he issued rulings upholding the warrants as constitutional.
The warrants allowed the FBI to detain, without charges, an estimated 70 people, all but one of whom was a muslim, as withnesses after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Congress authorized material witness warrants in 1984 to allow the temporary detention of witnesses who flee before being called to testify to a grand jury or at trial. The warrants are signed by a judge in secret: the public is barred from court hearings about the people targeted by the warrant. Critics argued that the Bush administration has used the law to detain suspected terrorists when the government lacked suffivient criminal evidence to hold them.
I think that the committee should ask Michael Mukasey about the bush detention policy. Also they should ask him really tough questions about these secret warrants and why were they issued to people that didn't even do anything related to terrorism. A investigation on why people were detain for no reason should be conducted. In addition i think the committee should do something so that this does wil not happen anymore. Nobody deserves to be detain for no reason without being charged with something. Just imagine if the FBI arrested you and detain you without charging you with anything or telling you anything. The committte needs to really turn up the heat and press michael mukasey on these issues.
Finally i think that the Michael Mukasey and the Bush adminitration are wrong and should take responsibility for detaing people that are not even guilty of terrorist acts. I Think that it is unconstitutional to detain somebody without charging them with something specially when it does nt even relate to terrorism. In addition this issue should not be overlooked and that people need to realize that this is wrong and it needs to be changed.




http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/15/ag.hearings.ap/index.html