PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An attorney representing the U.S. Department of Treasury has told a federal appeals court in Portland that the government doesn’t need to tell organizations on its global terrorist list the reasons for their designation.
Treasury Department attorney Douglas Letter says the government has designated thousands of organizations as specially designated global terrorists. Letter says it’s impractical to inform each of them.
The Oregon chapter of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation is suing the Treasury Department. It says its rights to due process were violated when it was placed on the list in 2004.
Al Haramain attorney David Cole says only about twelve of the organizations on the Treasury Department’s list are based in the U.S. Cole says Al Haramain deserved to know the reasons it was placed on the list.
