Nick Baumann reports that Gulet Mohammed, the 19-year-old Somali American who says that he was abused while being detained by authorities in Kuwait, returned home this morning after his lawyer filed a lawsuit against the U.S. The FBI interrogated him at the airport for two hours without counsel:
Gulet Mohamed was released by the FBI over two hours after he was detained at Dulles airport by government agents. He left Dulles for his home in Alexandria, Virginia, without saying much about the questioning (at his lawyer's suggestion). But as he was entering a taxi, a reporter asked, "What everyone wants to know is, are you a terrorist?" Mohamed replied, "I am not a terrorist." Here's a photo of him in the cab.
The wisdom of the FBI questioning Mohamed without a lawyer escapes me. If they're planning on charging him with anything, they can't use it, and either way, he'll probably ultimately make public what they said to him behind closed doors. What was the point?
