Canadian Was Falsely Accused, Panel Says - washingtonpost.com

The United States Government owes Mahel Arar an explanation for what happened to him, an apology, and fair compensation. Instead he has received denial, obfuscation, and a rather shameless abuse of the state secrets privilege when he attempted to challenge the government in federal court. Apparently, in the land of the free the government can detain you without informing your home government, bar you from speaking with an attorney, pack you off to Syria on a private plane, and have you tortured for a year all on the faulty suspicion that you may have associated with terrorists -- and there is no remedy under the law.

One other thing about this case: I've seen numerous Admministration officials quoted as saying that Arar was deported in accordance with U.S. law. It should go without saying, but sending people off to foreign countries to be tortured is very much contrary to U.S. law, namely, Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture, which prohibits exactly that practice and is, according to our Constitution, the law of the land.