Another Lawsuit for Bush* - Arar to launch lawsuit against U.S.

[Tripper11]

NEW YORK - A Canadian citizen who says he was tortured in a Syrian prison after being deported by the U.S. wants financial compensation and a declaration that the American government acted illegally.

Maher Arar is launching a lawsuit Thursday at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the U.S. government. Attorney General John Ashcroft is among the officials expected to be named in the lawsuit.

Stephen Watt, one of Arar's lawyers from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, alleges U.S. officials broke their own law by sending Arar to a country that they knew would use torture.

"United States authorities cannot participate in the torture of U.S. or non-U.S. citizens – that's the issue," said Watt.

Arar launches lawsuit


*** out of curiousity, does anyone know how many lawsuits have been filed or are being filed against this MISadministration?????

*edited to add the link

[Skidmore]

1. Keep them lawsuits coming...

*'s really going to hate lawyers more than he already does by the time his little dress up gig as POTUS is over.

[forgethell]

2. Everybody hates lawyers

deservedly so. why should * be any different?