Forget bombs, bootleg T-shirts are a present danger

This article about Homeland Security's scope of detention powers is rather disturbing. To whom are they accountable?

Forget bombs, bootleg T-shirts are a present danger - World - smh.com.au

Ray LeMoine hung out with Hezbollah and watched a terrorist rally, but that's not why Homeland Security picked him up.

ARRIVING at JFK Airport from Dubai recently, I was stopped at customs by an officer from the Department of Homeland Security and directed to a drab back room filled with Arabs, South Asians and Africans.

I wasn't surprised, really, having just spent six months working and travelling in the Islamic world - Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Pakistan. If ever there was a security red-flag candidate, I was it, and I assumed this was just protocol.

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