Dan Eggen for WaPo reports that "A federal judge in Idaho has ruled that former attorney general John D. Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of a U.S. citizen arrested as a "material witness" in a terrorism case."
Well, now. There's some mighty significant implications to consider.
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