But in this unconstitutional nightmare, the government never has allowed Dr. Najjar to confront the supposed evidence. In May 2000, after administrative appeals were exhausted, a federal trial court judge ruled in Dr. Najjar's habeas corpus lawsuit that he had been denied due process during his bail hearing three years earlier. Worse, at the immigration rehearing, Judge McHugh concluded from the government's summary of the evidence that Dr. Najjar was hardly a threat to national security.