April 6, 2003
Mike Hawash: Bad News
From the Portland Oregonian: Bail denied for Arab American being held as material witness.
The judge has imposed a gag order so neither the defense nor prosecution lawyers can discuss the case. Mike's name has now been removed from the inmate list at the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon. The Oregonian cites its sources as claiming that Mike's arrest is related to the "Oregon Six" terrorist investigation.
There is no public court record of his arrest or of the searches the FBI conducted of his home and office. We don't even know when the bail hearing was held.
It would be nice to believe that all this secrecy is justified. Unfortunately it isn't, nor can it be. The first act of a tyranny is to hide all of its acts behind a cloak of secrecy.
"For our own good."
Posted by Frank at April 6, 2003 4:41 PM