] Certain employees of the Justice Department have been
] advised to hire lawyers to defend them in a spate of
] lawsuits that could be filed shortly by people who were
] detained in the wake of 9/11.
]
] On Monday, the department's Inspector General is expected
] to release a report that will be critical of the
] government's roundup of nearly 800 individuals on
] immigration charges after the terrorist attacks in New
] York and Washington. The report, according to someone who
] is familiar with it, will criticize officials for holding
] detainees for lengthy periods even when it was
] increasingly clear they had nothing to do with terrorism,
] and for blocking many detainees from normal immigration
] hearing procedures. Another portion of the document will
] say that some detainees were not able to get access to
] lawyers.