In F.B.I., Innocent Detainee Found Unlikely Ally - NYT (Tale of US Gulag!)

[Merlin]

t took no more than a week for James P. Wynne, a veteran F.B.I. investigator, to confirm the harmless truth that only now, more than two years later, he is ready to talk about. The small foreign man he helped arrest for videotaping outside an office building in Queens on Oct. 25, 2001, was no terrorist.

He was a Buddhist from Nepal planning to return there after five years of odd jobs at places like a Queens pizzeria and a Manhattan flower shop. He was taping New York street scenes to take back to his wife and sons in Katmandu. And he had no clue that the tall building that had drifted into his viewfinder happened to include an office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Yet by the time Mr. Wynne filed his F.B.I. report a few days later, the Nepalese man, who spoke almost no English, had been placed in solitary confinement at a federal detention center in Brooklyn just because of his videotaping. He was swallowed up in the government's new maximum security system of secret detention and secret hearings, and his only friend was the same F.B.I. agent who had helped decide to put him there.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/30/nyregion/30deport.final.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1088593386-gJyk7crlr8tkI3y9+5PFCw

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. So we fill Gitmo with poor fellows

like this guy, and we give free rides out of the country to people like the bin Ladens?

[rfranklin]

2. The founding fathers of this country knew about these practices and...

wrote some wonderful protections into the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, those are documents which have little relevance for the Bush administration and the Federal Keystone Kops.

Have they caught even ONE real terrorist with these violations of our law?

[lazarus]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=655264