Bush Officials Should Be Held Accountable for Post-9/11 Abuse and Religious Profiling, Attorneys Argue

New York—(ENEWSPF)—May 1, 2014. Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court of appeals to allow a case to go forward against high-level Bush administration officials alleged to have ordered the post-9/11 immigration sweeps, detention, and racial and religious profiling of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian men.  

The plaintiffs in Turkmen v. Ashcroftand other prisoners were swept up after the September 11 attacks on the pretext of minor immigration…