The annual report of the American Civil Liberties Union today sharply criticized the U.S. Government policy of screening U.S. citizens to bar Jews from service at the U.S. airbase at Dharhan, Saudi Arabia.
The ACLU declared that the government is in violation of the principle of separation of Church and State. Another government, the ACLU said, has the sovereign right to exclude civilians it does not desire, but it is “a very different matter for the authority of the armed services of this country to engage in screening of U.S. citizens.”
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