31.   In the presidential campaign, Bush reached out to Muslim Americans when, in a televised debate, he mentioned his opposition to secret evidence.

32.   In the past eight years, three federal judges have ruled that the use of secret evidence violates the right to due process.

33.   Israeli security courts have long been criticized for detentions without charges, secret evidence and physical abuse during interrogations.

34.   It could be, too, that Ashcroft wants to use this case to establish the right to use secret evidence against aliens.

35.   It denies defendants, who are the targets of that secret evidence, due process of law.

36.   It would allow the government to deport aliens based solely on so-called secret evidence which only the government possesses.

37.   Last April, working only from the summaries of the secret evidence, Meisner ordered Kiareldeen released on bond.

38.   Lawyers for the detained men said they were eager to have a higher court rule on the constitutionality of the use of secret evidence.

39.   Many of them were, and are, imprisoned while trying to fight the phantom of secret evidence.

40.   Meisner, an administrative law judge, had himself viewed the secret evidence in its entirety and found it unconvincing.