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11:13:18 PM:
A top congressman calls for Janet Reno's resignation
By PAT LEISNER Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - U.S. Rep. David Bonior called Thursday for
Attorney General Janet Reno to resign after the government
blocked the release of two men in custody for years on secret
evidence.
"In my 25 years in Congress, I have never seen such an act of
injustice,'' Bonior, a Michigan Democrat and minority whip, said
from his Washington office.
"I am calling for Attorney General Janet Reno to resign today.
This is an absolute outrage. These are Gestapo-like tactics.''
Reno blocked for 45 days the release of Anwar Haddam, who has
been jailed on secret evidence for four years in Fredericksburg,
Va., south of Washington, D.C. Haddam would be speaker of the
Algerian Parliament if he were a sitting member, Bonior said.
Justice department spokesman Charles Miller had no comment
Thursday night.
There is an execution order out for him in Algeria. The Board of
Immigration Appeal in Falls Church, Va., decided to grant him
political asylum.
The 45-day detention, however, puts the issue into the hands of a
new administration.
Similarly, Mazen Al-Najjar of Tampa was denied release Thursday.
Al-Najjar, a Palestinian the government maintains has terrorist
links and is a national security threat, has been in jail for
more than three years.
An immigration judge ordered his release Wednesday on bond,
saying the government failed to give Al-Najjar enough information
to defend himself against the charges.
The government sought to block his release and the board of
immigration appeal continued Al-Najjar's custody indefinitely,
pending further orders.
"Top judges have ruled there is nothing to keep them for four
years and they have seen the so-called evidence,'' Bonior said.
The evidence was obviously inadequate and they remain behind
bars.
"This is a brutal decision. I am really distraught and I'm mad
as hell,'' Bonior said.
He has sponsored a bill to make secret evidence law
unconstitutional.
Bonior said he has visited both Haddam and Al-Najjar in jail and
talked with the president and with Reno about their cases.
"We were to the point they were going to be freed and someone
decided they are to continue to rot in jail,'' Bonior said.
"When you tell people about the secret evidence law, they don't
believe this goes on here in this country,'' he said.
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December 8, 2000
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