Reply #101: Arar was detained for two weeks

[jberryhill]

...and his civil case is still active.

So, you are offering me a choice of two weeks detention or death?

The deportation aspect, of course, doesn't apply here, since you are talking apples and oranges relative to US citizens.

Sami al Haj also walks among the living, and in case you haven't noticed, we are no longer using Guantanamo to hold suspects captured abroad.

The more relevant case is Jose Padilla. That's a track record of one instance on more relevant facts, in definite contrast to, say, Richard Reid.

There have been hundreds of convictions in relation to terrorist activities which establish the "track record" here. There are cases which were inappropriately handled, and for which civil remedies continue to be sought, but your use of the term "track record" is misleading because the number of cases in which things were, yes, fucked up, is not the majority of cases by a longshot.