Why can't his lot just accept that being thrown in prison without charges is what the new America is all about? We all know that our government wouldn't lie or distort the truth when they say that evidence found could in some way be connected to making bombs. Surely they wouldn't stretch the truth in any way because a filmmaker who was Iranian-American was in Iraq, would they? Just because the guy was a Navy SEAL doesn't make him immune to receiving an ass-kicking while being detained. Yes, in the GOP and Krauthammer's world, we'd just lock these potential-though-no-basis-for-trouble-people up and throw away the key. Oh to remove civil rights once again.
Cyrus Kar, 45, of Los Angeles seeks unspecified damages and sweeping changes in the government's detention policies overseas.The suit was filed this week in federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union of California. It is the first civil case challenging detention policies in Iraq, said Mark Rosenbaum, the organization's legal director.
But wait, the Pentagon has the goods.
When Kar was released, military officials said that he had been properly detained as "an imperative security threat" and that the matter had been handled and resolved appropriately.
"This case highlights the effectiveness of our detainee review process," spokesman Air Force Brig. Gen. Don Alston said following Kar's release.
Kar was taken into custody in May 2005 after he visited Iraq to make a documentary film about Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who wrote the world's first human rights charter. Potential bomb parts were found in a taxi in which Kar was riding.
