U.S. Use of Secret Data to Target Islamic Group Upheld
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s use of classified information to designate a now defunct Oregon Islamic charity as a terrorist organization was upheld by a federal appeals court in San Francisco.
While the Office of Foreign Assets Control violated Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc.’s constitutional rights to due process by failing to give the charity a chance to respond or an unclassified summary of the information it was using, the designation as a terrorist group wouldn’t have been altered, the court said today.