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...hour-long forum touched on many issues surrounding the case, including the media's role in spinning information and the pressure on the prosecution to convict...
...death-penalty cases. More than 85 individuals on Death Row have already been exonerated, a number of whom would have been executed had it not been for the availability of DNA evidence. Yet every day, more biological samples are destroyed that could potentially prove someone's innocence and help convict the guilty party; the bill would provide for the preservation and testing of such evidence in certain cases and needs to be enacted before any more innocent people are sentenced to death...
...fact that Freeh is explaining in great detail the government's suspicions after Lee's case was concluded by a plea agreement that convicted him only of one felony count of mishandling classified information suggests that the FBI believes its evidence will fare better in the Senate than it would have done in a courtroom. Of course, civil-rights advocates will howl at the appearance of double jeopardy, and question the fairness of giving the prosecution a second chance in a setting whose evidentiary standards are not those of a courtroom. And even before that to the media, once again...
...have started marking off the days on the calendar, like a convict, waiting for release in early November. This election campaign is going to end. But how do we get through the intervening weeks? Buck up! We've come this far. I admit I think wistfully from time to time about Alan Keyes. Where is he now that we need him? Where is his mosh pit? With Wen Ho Lee back home, can't we hear again from Keyes about how racial profiling is essential to law enforcement...
...easy to say, in retrospect, that the admission that the authorities lacked the evidence to convict should have served as an alarm bell to editors, but the rush to publish - and the implication by the guardians of the nation's security that the national interest had been imperiled - may have drowned those out. So the net effect of the initial reporting of the case throughout the national press was to create a separate media courtroom in which hooded accusers were free to damn Lee without fear, even, of rigorous cross-examination...