So once Judge Wilmot faxed in her court order, exercising her power under the Patriot Act to order held suspected terrorists for inordinate periods, the process began. 021507 was stripped, inspected, shaved, tattooed, cuffed and leashed as if she was placed into a giant relentless machine which processes the human form. Which in effect, it is.
A single piece of paper has converted the daunting former U.S. Attorney into a nameless pile of flesh. And though there are limits under the Act, only so many days that a suspect can be legally held without the right to either counsel or release, I suspect that that particular segment of compliance will be cast aside... an oversight in a vast legal system which the noted U.S. Attorney has so often used to her advantage.
It has been two weeks since
