Let's hope the ruling will open the door to a CENSURE, at minimum.

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"Court to Rule In Suit Against Ashcroft, Others"

By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 17, 2008; A10

The Supreme Court said yesterday it will decide whether former
attorney general John D. Ashcroft and top Bush administration
officials are protected from a lawsuit filed by a Pakistani man who
alleges he was abused after his arrest following the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks.

The court granted the government's request to hear the case after
lower courts said that the lawsuit by Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim who was
picked up at his home on Long Island, N.Y., and spent months in
solitary confinement, could proceed.

The government argued that the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the 2nd Circuit in New York would subject "high-level government
officials to discovery and even a trial based merely on conclusory
allegations that such officials knew of or condoned alleged wrongdoing
by subordinate officials."

Iqbal alleges that his treatment at a federal holding facility in
Brooklyn was based on unlawful racial and religious discrimination for
which federal officials, including Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert S.
Mueller III, are personally liable.

Iqbal was arrested in November 2001, one of many persons of "high
interest" picked up by the government after the Sept. 11 attacks.

He was cleared of terrorism involvement, but pleaded guilty to Social
Security fraud. After serving more than a year in prison, he was
deported to Pakistan.

http://www.washingtonpost/com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061600810....