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...prosecutors can't make a case under the strict standards of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, they might find one in a cover-up. They could file perjury charges against someone for lying on an affidavit or giving false testimony. The burden of proof is not as high in such cases, nor are the penalties as severe. And it is a surer path for getting someone to pay for blowing a spy's cover. --By Daren Fonda. Reported by Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington
Dalla Santa had contended in his Sept. 18 motion that an affidavit filed by a witness showed that the officers conducting a search with a drug-sniffing canine falsified information to secure a search warrant...
...police wrote in an affidavit that a canine had arrived to search the area and had “alerted on” three boxes at 3:45 p.m., but a subsequent affidavit filed by the witness contended that the police dog had arrived at 3 p.m. was searching...
...what they were doing. And if we had to wait and see what they were doing - I mean that'd be way too late." So far, neither Hammoud's gang nor other Hizballah operatives are accused of planning specific attacks here. But Conrad noted that the government filed an affidavit citing a confidential source who said that "if Hizballah issued an authorization to execute a terrorist act in the United States, Mohamad Hammoud would not hesitate in carrying it out." And prosecutors may present evidence at Hammoud's sentencing from an inconclusive post-trial investigation of allegations that Hammoud sought...
...while every responsible person may understand that, surely every child doesn't. Which raises the question of what the parents were doing when these kids were scarfing down all those burgers. Israel Bradley, father of Jazlyn, said in an affidavit that he "always believed McDonald's was healthy for my children." He says he never saw any information about ingredients at his local Mickey D's. Perhaps not. But any parent who has to look at a chart to know that French fries are fatty probably isn't serving macrobiotic health shakes at home. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet...