The War on Terror's Domestic Casualties
You and your spouse are fired from your federal jobs. Friends and neighbors shun you. Classmates tell your children at school you and your spouse are "terrorists."
But it was all a mistake:
"The Federal Bureau of Investigations had decided the Afsharis were not a threat long before they were fired. A local FBI agent already had conducted a routine check and closed their file. A government official was forced to recant her sworn testimony about the couple. At first, she said she recommended to Howard that they be fired. Later, she said that her sworn testimony was 'not consistent' with her current 'recollection of matters.' The government officials in Atlanta who recommended their firing never interviewed their neighbors, co-workers or supervisors in Morgantown. They never talked to the local FBI agent, either."
You sue. The feds settle for $600K and give you your job back, but your life will never be the same.
"It begs the question of what other domestic casualties have been suffered during the 'war on terror.'"
SEAN D. HAMILL in the New York Times; CHRIS KROMM in Facing South.