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Mayfield subsequently filed a lawsuit against the government for personal damages, winning an award of $2 million and the right to file a second lawsuit, challenging the constitutionality of certain Patriot Act provisions. That suit, too, was won, on September 16, 2007, when federal judge Ann Aiken ruled that using the FISA provisions of the Patriot Act to make secret searches of his house and office violated the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure.
Available online at http://www.lawandsecurity.org/publications/TTRCComplete.pdf.
On April 4th, 2003, the Office of Foreign Assets Control for the first time released a chart listing 57 settlements by corporations charged with violating the sanctions. http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/DhafirBailMotion.htm
In fact it appears that very few of the individuals prosecuted were actually terrorists. Constitutional lawyer David Cole, writing in The Nation and in his new book Less Safe, Less Free, co-authored with Jules Lobel, suggests that shoe bomber Richard Reid is one of the few. See, for instance, Cole’s September 24, 2007 article at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070924/cole_lobel
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Gies, M. Jules Boykoff, Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States. Hum Rights Rev 10, 295–301 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-008-0083-1
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