PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Attorneys for the U.S. Treasury Department say it would be too much work to inform each person and organization listed as a global terrorist of the reasons they are so designated.
The attorneys made the argument Wednesday before a federal appeals court in Portland, Ore., in a case involving the Oregon chapter of a Saudi Arabia-based charity called Al Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc.
The chapter is suing the Treasury Department, saying its rights to due process were violated when it was placed on the global terrorist list in 2004.
The case is being heard by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Treasury Department attorney Douglas Letter says the government has listed thousands of organizations as specially designated global terrorists. He says it’s impractical to inform each of them.
