The Secrecy And Lack Of Due Process Continues


Intel Coder Not Going Anywhere

By Leander Kahney for Wired News.

About 100 supporters gathered outside Portland’s Federal Courthouse to protest Monday’s secret hearing for Mike Hawash. The 38-year-old American citizen of Arab descent, was arrested by the FBI’s Terrorist Task Force on the morning of March 20 as he appeared for work at Intel.Hawash will be held until at least the end of April, according to a court order released on Monday afternoon. The Oregon branch of the American Civil Liberties Union condemned Hawash’s arrest, which it characterized as an abuse of the material witness statute. The 1984 statute was designed to prevent nervous or hostile witnesses from fleeing before a trial.


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