{"id":64,"date":"2006-08-30T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2021-02-11T07:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T12:11:09","slug":"of-rights-risks-and-relocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/30\/of-rights-risks-and-relocations\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Rights, Risks, and Relocations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Stockton Record<\/em> staff writer Michael Fitzgerald <a title=\"Of Rights, Risks, and Relocations\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150421123350\/http:\/\/www.recordnet.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060830\/OPED0301\/608300314\/-1\/OPED03\">comments<\/a> on the U.S. Government&#8217;s denial of entry to the United States of two citizens for declining to submit to FBI interrogation and polygraph &#8220;testing.&#8221; Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I always wondered how white Americans could have stood by during World War II and allowed authorities to drag patriotic Japanese-Americans off to relocation camps.<\/p><p>Now I see. In wartime, such calls are not as easy as they appear in hindsight. Americans probably assumed authorities knew something civilians did not. They trusted people with badges.<\/p><p>More on that later. The point is that the Lodi terror case is starting to have an eerie resemblance to that disgraceful historic mistake.<\/p><p>The latest wrinkle: Federal authorities won&#8217;t allow two Pakistani-Americans related to Lodi terror convict Hamid Hayat to come home from an extended stay in Pakistan until they take a lie-detector test.<\/p><p>Muhammad Ismail, 45, and his son, Jaber Ismail, 18, are U.S. citizens. They are charged with no crime. No U.S. official publicly has alleged any wrongdoing on their part.<\/p><p>But their constitutional rights seem to have done a Houdini.<\/p><p>Oh, the treatment they&#8217;re getting makes sense. The Ismails are, after all, implicated in the Lodi terror case.<\/p><p>Their cousin Hamid Hayat was convicted April 25 of supporting terrorists. A jury concluded Hayat attended terrorist training camp in Pakistan in 2003 and &#8217;04.<\/p><p>Under FBI interrogation, Hayat said several of his cousins, including Jaber, attended these camps, too. That may be what landed both Ismails on the no-fly list.<\/p><p>Finding his way home blocked, Jaber Ismail submitted to an FBI &#8220;interview&#8221; in Islamabad. But that wasn&#8217;t enough. The feds wanted to talk to him again.<\/p><p>His dad, too. But Lodi relatives reportedly advised them that might not be such a good idea. So the Ismails refused.<\/p><p>That looks suspicious. But consider: Hamid Hayat was convicted solely on statements he made during FBI interrogation. He later recanted. Too late.<\/p><p>Umer Hayat, his father, cooperated with FBI agents and was charged with lying. His jury deadlocked, but he spent 11 months in jail.<\/p><p>Maybe the Ismails are hiding something. But then, conversations with the FBI haven&#8217;t gone so wonderfully for the Muslims of Lodi that they should be eager for more.<\/p><p>They may fear if they submit to interrogation, the FBI will hang <em>something<\/em> on them by hook or by crook. A lie detector? Could you answer FBI questions without making that truth graph dance at least once?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockton Record staff writer Michael Fitzgerald comments on the U.S. Government&#8217;s denial of entry to the United States of two citizens for declining to submit to FBI interrogation and polygraph &#8220;testing.&#8221; Excerpt: I always wondered how white Americans could have stood by during World War II and allowed authorities to drag patriotic Japanese-Americans off to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,281],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-polygraph","tag-fbi","tag-hamid-hayat","anons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Of Rights, Risks, and Relocations - 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