American Civil Liberties Union : Joint letter to Department of Homeland Security on Inspector General report on the removal of Maher Arar to Syria

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Joint letter to Department of Homeland Security on Inspector General report on the removal of Maher Arar to Syria (4/24/2008)

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Description: We write to urge you to release, immediately and in its entirety, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report OIG-08-18 entitled “The Removal of a Canadian Citizen to Syria.” The one page unclassified summary of the report released last month is uninformative and clearly an inadequate representation of the investigation results. Moreover, it fails to address any of the concerns we expressed previously to the Department regarding the legality of the procedures by which the U.S. government removed Maher Arar to Syria and general U.S. government practices for handling similar cases.
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