{"id":314011,"date":"2017-06-22T13:48:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T12:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/at-fbi-mueller-oversaw-post-911-abuses\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T13:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T12:48:44","slug":"at-fbi-mueller-oversaw-post-911-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/at-fbi-mueller-oversaw-post-911-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"At FBI, Mueller Oversaw Post-9\/11 Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> The U.S. mainstream media gushes over Russia-gate special prosecutor Robert Mueller as an upright man of the Establishment, ignoring how he oversaw abuses of innocent Arabs after 9\/11, reports Jonathan Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>By Jonathan Marshall<\/p>\n<p>Robert Mueller III, the former FBI director who now heads the wide-ranging investigation into alleged misdeeds by President Trump and his associates, just dodged a major legal bullet himself. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court gave him and other former senior Bush administration officials legal immunity for the vicious abuses committed against more than 700 foreigners who were rounded up with little or no cause after the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23724\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20010705-2-m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20010705-2-m.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23724\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20010705-2-m.jpg 255w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20010705-2-m-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23724\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20010705-2-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20010705-2-m.jpg 255w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20010705-2-m-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Mueller with President George W. Bush on July 5, 2001, as Bush nominated Mueller to be FBI Director. (White House photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The court <a href=\"https:\/\/ccrjustice.org\/sites\/default\/files\/attach\/2017\/06\/2017-06-19_ZiglarvAbbasi_SCOTUSdecision.pdf\">ruled<\/a> 4-2, nearly 16 years after the fact, that \u201cnational security\u201d trumps civil liberties and that however unfounded the arrests, or intolerable their treatment, the detainees had no right to sue senior federal officials for damages.<\/p>\n<p>Punting to Congress, a branch of government rarely known for its defense of individual rights, the court declared, \u201cThe proper balance in situations like this, between deterring constitutional violations and freeing high officials to make the lawful decisions necessary to protect the Nation in times of great peril, is one for the Congress to undertake, not the Judiciary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the climate of fear that followed 9\/11 has eased a bit, the decision is highly relevant in the Trump era because the abused victims were all immigrants who had overstayed their visas. If the FBI had any question about the arrestees, it designated them \u201cof interest\u201d and ordered them held until cleared \u2014 in other words, guilty until proven innocent.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of the hapless victims were held at the Administrative Maximum Special Housing Unit in Brooklyn\u2019s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), which was the subject of two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/oig\/special\/0306\/full.pdf\">scathing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/oig\/special\/0312\/final.pdf\">reports<\/a> by the Bush Justice Department\u2019s own Inspector General in 2003. Besides documenting a wide range of abuses, the reports concluded that staff members brazenly lied about the rough treatment they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/06\/21\/at-fbi-mueller-oversaw-post-911-torture\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: The U.S. mainstream media gushes over Russia-gate special prosecutor Robert Mueller as an upright man of the Establishment, ignoring how he oversaw abuses of innocent Arabs after 9\/11, reports Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Robert Mueller III, the former FBI director who now heads the wide-ranging investigation into alleged misdeeds by President Trump and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}