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Something I forgot to post about last week: Two teenage girls from New York are in custody because they present "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based upon evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers". I suppose they could be (although, per here: "Teenage girls talking suicide. Hm."). But it's more likely in this country's great tradition of using the immigration system to sidestep pesky concepts like civil rights and due process.

All of Nina Bernstein's reporting on this is good: here, here (free copy), here (copy), and here. And the NYT editorial. And here's a blog about it.