CNN.com - Lawyer: 'Dirty bomb' suspect's rights violated - June 12, 2002

Yeah, looks that way, doesn't it? I'm a civil libertarian by inclination, but I still hold to the "not a suicide pact" school. We have a guy who was planning to set off a bomb spewing radiation everywhere, and I think under the circumstances the government is right to hold him. My fear is that violating someone's rights for good reason will lead to violating them for a bad reason, then no reason, then those rights will be gone. And don't tell me that there aren't people in the government who don't think routine surveillance of everyone, say, is a good idea.