United States of America Ex Rel. Mamdouh Barbour v. District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, San Antonio, Texas, Etc.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

In this tangled case we review the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to an alien who was refused release on bail pending a final decision in deportation proceedings. A Special Inquiry Officer denied bail to the petitioner, Mamdouh Barbour, an alien, on the ground that he was a bad bail risk. On appeal the Board of Immigration Appeals did not rule on the question whether Barbour was a bad bail risk but, on information submitted by the State Department, denied bail on the ground that Barbour represented a threat to national security. Barbour then petitioned…