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Free Mike Hawash
by Decius at 11:49 am EST, Apr 2, 2003

] On Thursday, March 20, 2003, our friend and colleague
] Maher (Mike) Hawash was arrested ("detained") as a
] "material witness" by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism
] Task Force in the parking lot of Intel Corp's Hawthorne
] Farms parking lot.

This case is interesting on a number of levels.

1. The obvious ... the government can spirit you away without charging you with a crime. They can hold you arbitrarily. We ought to demand that when the government takes people they explain why and for how long. "Material Witness" rules were not meant to be a loophole in the requirement that the government have reasons for holding people. If this is the Patriot act at work then this is definately not acceptable.

2. The fact that you know about this. Over the course of two weeks this website has gotten a lot of coverage in blogistan. This story has not really been covered in the mainstream press (do a google news search).

I'm posting this because I want to see more information.

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RE: Free Mike Hawash
by Elonka at 3:08 pm EST, Apr 2, 2003

Decius wrote:
] ] On Thursday, March 20, 2003, our friend and colleague
] ] Maher (Mike) Hawash was arrested ("detained") as a
] ] "material witness" by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism
] ] Task Force in the parking lot of Intel Corp's Hawthorne
] ] Farms parking lot.
]

Related links:

An article in "The Oregonian" about the arrest:
 http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/104825159914540.xml

A November 2002 article from the Washington Post about the 44 people who have been detained this way: "Material Witness Law Has Many in Limbo":
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31438-2002Nov23?language=printer

The actual law is in Title 18, Section 3144:
 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=18&sec=3144

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Free Mike Hawash
by Rattle at 2:44 pm EST, Apr 2, 2003

] On Thursday, March 20, 2003, our friend and colleague
] Maher (Mike) Hawash was arrested ("detained") as a
] "material witness" by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism
] Task Force in the parking lot of Intel Corp's Hawthorne
] Farms parking lot.

(Comments Decius)

This case is interesting on a number of levels.

1. The obvious ... the government can spirit you away without charging you with a crime. They can hold you arbitrarily. We ought to demand that when the government takes people they explain why and for how long. "Material Witness" rules were not meant to be a loophole in the requirement that the government have reasons for holding people. If this is the Patriot act at work then this is definately not acceptable.

2. The fact that you know about this. Over the course of two weeks this website has gotten a lot of coverage in blogistan. This story has not really been covered in the mainstream press (do a google news search).

I'm posting this because I want to see more information.

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