Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Customs Service, one of the agencies involved in the raids, declined to comment on them.

Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the immigration agency, said, "We categorically deny claims of wrongdoing in connection with any enforcement actions in this investigation."

Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Justice Department, did not respond to that assertion.

"The raids were not conducted based on religion or ethnicity," said Dean Boyd, the spokesman.

A Department of Justice spokesman, Dean Boyd, said its officials would make no comment about the phrase in question.

A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Dean Boyd, would not elaborate on that statement.

A Justice Department spokesman, Dean Boyd, would not comment on the decision.

A Justice Department spokesman, Dean Boyd, declined to comment.

Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Justice Department on national-security issues, declined to comment, as did Marri's lawyers.

"They're traffic cops in the skies," Dean Boyd, a bureau spokesman, said - albeit cops without guns.