Big Brother lives
A U.S. citizen is arrested and held in solitary confinement indefinitely without being charged with a crime. He has only limited access to his family and lawyer.
You probably know where I'm going by now. We're not talking about some nightmare scenario in a totalitarian country. According to Wired magazine, that's what has happened to Intel programmer Maher "Mike" Hawash.
According to Wired:
A friend and former colleague at Intel, Steven McGeady, is championing Hawash's case. McGeady, a former vice president at the chipmaker who hired Hawash as a programmer in 1992, was a high-profile witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial.
"People say this doesn't happen in this country," McGeady said, "but one of my neighbors has been disappeared. It's not what he might have done that matters to me -- they disappeared him. They need to question him and let him go, or charge him. It's like Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka."
The magazine says McGready believes Hawash may have been arrested because of a charitable donation he made in 2000 to a charity that the government later linked to potential terrorist organizations.
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