Arar's

Given Maher Arar's complete exoneration, there's enough actionable commentary on the starboard side of the blogosphere today to get him another $10 million.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Canadian officials, too, knew that torture was routine in Syria, but the RCMP fed questions to Arar's torturers.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

Several weeks ago the Supreme Court denied hearing Arar's appeal, which eliminated any hope that the Supreme Court might puncture the dam of immunity the government and lower courts had built.

Valerie Brender: The Hypocrisy (and Holes) in U.S. Torture Laws Valerie Brender 2010

Resentment lingers because Arar is still on the US terrorist watchlist, despite Arar's exoneration by a high-level public inquiry in Canada.

Frank Naif: Reckoning Renditions to America's Allies 2009

A twelve-judge panel will decide whether Federal lawyers can again evoke the "state secret" privilege to keep Arar's lawsuit for violating his due process rights.

Frank Naif: Reckoning Renditions to America's Allies 2009

Lorne Waldman, Arar's former lawyer, explained to the Toronto Star that before Arar's compensation was paid, Stockwell Day, the Canadian public safety minister, "was apparently shown the entire Arar file" by the U.S. government, and "later asserted there was no reason in his view that Arar should remain on a watch list."

Andy Worthington: Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials 2009

Those who knew about Arar's case were, of course, appalled.

Andy Worthington: Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials 2009

The court concluded that Arar's case raised too many sensitive foreign policy and secrecy issues to permit relief.

And Where Was A.G. Ashcroft? A.W.O.L. 2009

Counsel was finally obtained and met with Arar, but thereafter counsel received misinformation as to Arar's whereabouts.

Judge H. Lee Sarokin: What Foul Deeds Lie Beneath the Cloak of National Security 2009

After a panel of three judges refused to reach the merits of Arar's claim, twelve judges of the Second Circuit, sitting en banc, reheard the case.

Owen Fiss: The Example of America 2009