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Kudos to Cusac. (Letters to the Editor).


I am writing to thank you for publishing "You're in the Hole," by Anne-Marie Cusac (December issue). This is an excellent article on the new Federal Bureau of Prisons Noun 1. Federal Bureau of Prisons - the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes
BoP
 regulations, which allow the monitoring of conversations between lawyers and their clients.

It is tempting to dismiss the actions taken against prisoners as not applying to activists outside prison, just as it is tempting to dismiss the internment internment, in international law, detention of the nationals or property of an enemy or a belligerent. A belligerent will intern enemy merchant ships or take them as prize, and a neutral should intern both belligerent ships that fail to leave its ports within a  of noncitizens without charges or evidence as not applying to citizens, or the targeting of those who appear Muslim or Arab as not applying to others. As the Supreme Court wrote in United States v. Robel United States v. Robel, 389 U.S. 258 (1967) was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. The court ruled that the United States government cannot deprive the people of constitutional rights, even in the interests of  in 1967: "This concept of `national defense' cannot be deemed an end in itself, justifying any exercise of ... power designed to promote such a goal. Implicit in Adj. 1. implicit in - in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning"
underlying, inherent
 the term `national defense' is the notion of defending the values and ideas which set this Nation apart.... It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion sub·ver·sion  
n.
1.
a. The act or an instance of subverting.

b. The condition of being subverted.

2. Obsolete A cause of overthrow or ruin.
 of one of the liberties."
Benjamin Evans
Chicago, Illinois
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