Terrorism and the Constitution by David Cole

Author:David Cole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2010-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Iraqi Detainees

Perhaps the most unusual secret evidence case involved a group of Iraqi men who worked with the CIA in a plot to overthrow President Saddam Hussein. The men were flown to the United States by the U.S. government in March 1997 after the CIA plan fell apart. But at that point, the United States ordered six of the Iraqis excluded from the United States on the basis of secret evidence.14 Former CIA director R. James Woolsey volunteered to represent them pro bono upon hearing of their plight, and described their situation as follows:Six Iraqi men are sitting in a Los Angeles prison, bewildered by the U.S. government’s decision to deport them. They are all enemies of Saddam Hussein, and after the Iraqi dictator’s attack on northern Iraq in late 1996 the U.S. evacuated them and their families to Guam and then to Southern California. Now the Immigration and Naturalization Service argues that the six are a threat to U.S. national security, and an immigration judge has agreed that they should be sent back to Iraq, where they face nearly certain death. Though they struggled for freedom in Iraq, these men are being deprived of their basic rights to defend themselves.

Would the INS charges that these men endanger national security stand up to scrutiny? It seems unlikely, given their personal histories. But the charges against them are classified and neither the accused not their attorneys can see them.15

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