The Material-Witness Black Hole
This article from the New York Times highlights our current leadership’s willingness to casually engage in profoundly un-American activities. In this case, that means perverting the ‘material witness’ statute into a tool for locking up, and then keeping under severe travel restrictions, for more than a year, a US citizen not even suspected of having any complicity in a crime: For post-9/11 material witness, it is a terror of a different kind.
