It's not just for Americans anymore. Call it, "The International Civil Liberties Union," or "Doing Whatever We Can to Further Our Vision of How the Cosmos Oughtta Be and Disguising It under the First Amendment." (In fairness, I am only assuming the man is not a U.S. citizen, but I'd bet my wine collection he isn't.)
A U.S. civil liberties group says it plans to sue the CIA in the case of a man who alleges he was kidnapped and sent to Afghanistan to be interrogated as a terrorism suspect.
The American Civil Liberties Union, in a release issued on Friday, alleged that "CIA officials at the highest level violated U.S. and universal human rights laws" when CIA agents seized an unidentified man and flew him to a secret prison in Afghanistan near Kabul called the "Salt Pit."
The ACLU said the lawsuit would be the first legal challenge of a practice known as "extraordinary rendition," and will be filed in court on Tuesday. It did not say when or in which country the alleged kidnapping took place.
It's not the first time the ACLU has expanded American protections to non-citizens. They've done so successfully in the past, and there's Supreme Court precedent to support some of it. Thing is, in this post-9/11 era, it's an ill-advised agenda item.
