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While AILA has joined the ACLU and other organizations in a Freedom of Information Act request to find out who is being detained where and why, Mohammed notes that the reasons for the immigrants' detention were not immediately clear and sometimes had dire consequences.
When Lewinsky's lawyer suggested that Starr's agents had detained his client improperly, Starr issued an equally one-sided press release portraying the encounter as a joint shopping and dining excursion.
Jeanne A. Butterfield, executive director of AILA, says it hasn't tried to organize pro bono lawyers for those detained
The Washington Post shows it knows its way beyond the Beltway, putting Clinton/grand jury as the off-lead and going instead with the news that a suspect has been detained in the Kenya embassy bombing, a story that makes everybody's front page.
As a French national who had overstayed his visa, Moussaoui could be detained immediately.