Texas.. is a judicial outrage. This case of the "Fort Worth Five" reveals the Nixon administrations callous disregard of the rights of all U.S. residents to constitutional safeguards of freedom. The case involves five Irish immigrants. all residents of the New York metropolitan area. who were hauled before a Federal grand jury in Fort Worth during its investigation of alleged gunrunning between the United States and Northern Ireland. None of the five had ever been in Texas before being summoned by the grand jury. The Justice Depaltment offered them "immunity" from prosecution if they would tell what they supposedly knew about the gunrunning. but that offer of "immunity" was a hollow gesture. for it still left the men exposed to possible prosecution in Northern Ireland and extradition by the United States into the hands of British authorities.
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