And nothing will happen to the Bush administration officials who authorized "extraordinary rendition"— the illegal practice of seizing people and flying them to nasty places where interrogators can brutalize them.
Mr. Helgerson is finishing several reports on detention, including one on the practice of seizing terrorism suspects and delivering them to foreign prisons, officials who have followed his work said.
More recently, Abeid has gone after the government's practice of seizing land that the Haratin and other blacks have lived on and worked, and giving it to cronies, local élites, and foreign investors.
The Suffolk County Executive, Steve Levy, halted the county's practice of seizing cars driven by accused drunken drivers yesterday, one day after a State Supreme Court justice declared the county's seizure law unconstitutional.
Officials said Mr. Helgerson's office was nearing completion on a number of inquiries into C.I.A. detention, interrogation, and "renditions" — the practice of seizing suspects and delivering them to the authorities in other nations.
In his State of the City address on Thursday, Mr. Giuliani said the new policy, essentially an expansion on the department's practice of seizing cars from people charged with drunken driving, was intended to deter menacing drivers.
