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Apparently, when Dharmarajah had called MEMA the week before hoping to get training that would improve his qualifications for human rights jobs overseas, the MEMA outreach director heard his foreign accent and last name and called the FBI.
An irony here is that I'm a Sri Lankan and a Hindu, but now anyone with a foreign accent and a name like [mine] is seen as being a terrorist," said Dharmarajah.
The overzealous pursuit of potential "terrorists" has led the FBI to investigate other political activists, according to American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts Legal Director John Reinstein. Reinstein's organization filed Freedom of Information Act requests last week asking for all records kept by the FBI and other counterterrorism agencies on four local groups and 10 individuals, in...
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... voluntarily giving them a DNA sample," said John Reinstein, legal director of the ACLU of Massachus...
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Phyllis Reinstein poured the black and white photos out of a bag and sorted them out, one by one, as if the pictures and the old secrets of the famous Cheektowaga family she married into were a card game she would get better at, the more she played.
She tried matching faces among the faded, stern, smiling and blank-eyed people staring at her from the polished gleam of her dining room table. There were no names, just photo studio stamps from Buffalo and New York City, along with some in French and Russian. Plump, serious women with Victorian ruffles, grinning girls with big hair bows, a boy on a tricycle with a giant feather in his cap and a scowl.
... Communist-sympathizing American journalist John Reed to more books, pamphlets, news stories, spee...
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... voluntarily giving them a DNA sample," said John Reinstein, legal director of the ACLU of Massachus...
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... the right of prosecutors to seek so-called John Doe indictments. . The Supreme Judicial Court said... limitations in these cases," said John Reinstein, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Un...
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...; for the Mid-America Legal Foundation by John M. Cannon, Susan W. Wanat, and Ann Plunkett Sheldo... Boston Civil Rights Coalition by John Reinstein, Marjorie Heins, and Mark A. Michelson; for the Ja...