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War on Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman Part 1

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Are We All Suspects Now?

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.

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