Supreme Court: Torture and Rendition Victim Maher Arar Cannot Sue

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/15/supreme_court_torture_and_rendition_victim


Supreme Court: Torture and Rendition Victim Maher Arar Cannot Sue in US Courts


In a major setback for holding US officials accountable for rendition and torture, the Supreme Court has rejected Arar’s lawsuit against the US government. Arar was seized at New York’s Kennedy Airport in 2002 on a stopover from a vacation abroad. Instead of allowing him to return home to Canada, Arar was sent to his native Syria, where he was tortured and interrogated in a tiny underground cell for nearly a year. Just after the Court’s decision was announced, Arar revealed a major new development: Canada’s federal law enforcement agency, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is conducting a criminal investigation into US and Syrian officials for their role in Arar’s rendition and torture. We speak to Maher Arar.

The (Republican) Robert's court is doing the job they were selected to do.

America the lawless. The untouchables.

The growing list of Bush accomplices had better "watch what they say, watch what they do."