U.S. Says Constitution Doesn't Protect Those Who Can't Legally Enter The Country

Several weeks ago, members of Congress apologized to Arar as he testified by video from Canada before a joint hearing of a House of Representatives subcommittee about what he called the "immoral" terrorism-fighting program known as extraordinary rendition. The practice allows the U.S. government to grab suspected terrorists in one country and fly them to their home country or another where they are wanted for a crime or questioning. In a courtroom packed with several hundred spectators, the judges heard arguments for more than an hour in the case. They did not immediately rule on whether a federal judge in Brooklyn was right to toss out the case Arar brought against the U.S. government. Sack repeatedly questioned Jeffrey Bucholtz, a deputy assistant attorney general, about the limits of U.S. government authority. "The Constitution doesn't apply to aliens abroad," Bucholtz said. He added that it was "not designed to govern what happens the world over." http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ib8AvNOAs6eHz8K7V1eyt91tJ0cg

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