762 people were held on emigration charges, including many at the metropolitan detention center in in brooklyn. The material witness statute was supposed to stop people who've observed a crime from fleeing. Well, now it's been misinterpreted, or rather, the opportunity such a law pe ents a is seized by the fbi. And what was then? I n s to say that all these people saw nine 11, so they're material witnesses to that crime, and that's all the pretext we need.