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...dismayed by the incomplete retelling of the Scooter Libby-Valerie Plame investigation. A major reason Dick Cheney pushed for the pardon was that he was not the original leaker. That person, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, was not even mentioned in your article. No underlying national-security crime was committed by the accidental leak of Plame's name (as demonstrated by the lack of charges), and as such, Libby's perjury was ancillary to the investigation. Gregory Eschbacher, FANWOOD...
...capital murder as well as home invasion and, like Gonzalez, have pleaded not guilty. (The teen has been charged as an adult but will not face the death penalty.) An eighth defendant, a woman charged as an accessory to the murder for allegedly providing a van used in the crime, has also pleaded not guilty. But investigators say Gonzalez's accomplices have fingered him as the sole gunman - and add that while they'd been lured by his promise of millions of dollars he believed Billings kept in a safe at the home, most of them didn't know Gonzalez...
...Making the investigation more baroque is the $20,000 that Tice, hoping to save his struggling car business, recently borrowed from people he says turned out to be "Mexican mafia" and wanted their money back more quickly, and at higher interest, than he could handle. The shadow of organized crime retribution, real or imagined, is another oft-mentioned anxiety in police interviews. Gonzalez even told investigators that he's in "very deep" and fears for his and his family's safety because...
...TIME's crime covers...
...Retired FBI agent Marquise believes that Al-Megrahi's release leaves the search for justice incomplete for a different reason. He feels frustrated that Al-Megrahi remains the only man convicted of a crime that was almost certainly not the work of one person. "He's got a lot of questions to answer, but now he's gone he's unlikely to do so," Marquise says. "The case is now closed, I'm afraid. And that's very disappointing...