The Boston Globe wrote on May 6, 2000: "The INS should not be allowed to use secret evidence based on uncorroborated and unchallenged statements to the FBI."
The Washington Post wrote on May 12, 2000: "This is not the first time the government has turned on a dime and released evidence that it had previously deemed too sensitive to disclose. Nor is it the only time that an accused person was then able to rebut such evidence convincingly. In the past year, the government has faced similar defeats in the cases of an Egyptian and a Palestinian who were accused of being terrorists. How many more cases must the government lose before it radically curtails the use of secret evidence?"
Steven Forbes of Forbes Magazine wrote on May 29, 2000: "Congress should enact the Secret Evidence Repeal Act, a bipartisan measure that would bar the use of secret evidence in American courts and reaffirm the Fifth Amendment's guarantee that no individuals be jailed without due process. Sponsored by Representatives Tom Campbell (R-Calif.), Bob Barr (R-Ga.), David Bonior (D-Mich.) and others, the act would roll back provisions of 1996's Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act that allow the Immigration and Naturalization Service to arrest, detain and deport noncitizens on the basis of evidence that is not revealed to the suspects or their lawyers...Kafkaesque justice, even for noncitizens, has no place in the American justice system."
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