![]() ![]() ![]() The agents said he did, but told him they were still writing a report on him. He’s a servant of the big oil companies and his only interest in the Middle East is oil.” Reingold told the FBI he thought he had a right to free speech. Or it might have been the following month, when I saw reports that the FBI had picked up 61-year-old Barry Reingold in San Francisco, for saying “Bush has nothing to be proud of. The government – my government – agreed he had no connection with terrorists, but we continued to hold him until he died. He hadn’t been allowed to call his family, his consulate, or a lawyer. It might have been in October 2001 when I read about a 55-year-old Pakistani waiter who died after weeks in a U.S. I don’t know when I started feeling afraid. But an Attorney General who thinks that calico cats are a sign of the devil doesn’t inspire me with greater confidence than I have in my own judgment.” – From Blacklist. ![]() “It’s the trouble with these times, Lotty. I got up from the couch and walked over to the window, where I could see the lake glistening when car lights hit it. “And you’re the best judge of whether he is?” “If I knew he was a terrorist, I’d turn him over in a heart-beat.” “If he’s a terrorist, you should turn him over to the authorities.” “So you do know where this Egyptian boy is, Victoria.” Lotty pushed her reading glasses up into her hair. Warshawski smack up against the Patriot Act. In her latest novel, Blacklist, author Sara Paretsky throws her popular heroine V.I. ![]()
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