While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the Federal court for the eastern district of new york hands down Turkmen v. Ashcroft: judge John Gleeson declares that Federal statute enforcement agents (acting under-color-of-law) may detain foreign nationals—without ever filing charges against them—as long as the end of that detention is “reasonably foreseeable” to those same SEAs.

       [added 2/17/2024]