President Bush’s new executive order targeting financial assets of Iraqi insurgents risks having “a chilling effect” on humanitarian donations in Iraq, according to Michael German, the ACLU’s chief national security security lawyer. And those who find themselves in contravention of the order — a determination residing entirely within the executive branch — would have no due process rights to contest the freezing of their assets.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180331