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...down to this: Carla Martin, a government lawyer with a small role in the sentencing trial of confessed 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, thought the chief of the prosecution team was overplaying his hand. In his opening statement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Spencer argued that if Moussaoui had told the FBI what he knew about the 9/11 plot in advance, authorities "would have prevented" the hijackings and thousands of lives could have been saved. Martin, 51, a veteran in the aviation field, thought defense attorneys could "drive a truck" through that assertion, as she later e-mailed a scheduled witness...
...problem is that most explosives experts--and their respective bureaucratic fiefs--are deeply entrenched in their agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the FBI. Those two organizations, which have a long history of rivalry, are battling over such issues as which agency can use the name Bomb Data Center. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has sown confusion as well by replicating some of the efforts of the ATF and the FBI. It is even duplicating its own work: at least two sections of DHS are scrambling to create bomb centers. Left...
...more fundamental problem is what aviation security lawyers deride as the government?s "imperial overreach." Prosecutors are arguing that if Moussaoui had come clean with FBI agents interrogating him before 9/11, airport security could have been beefed up to foil the hijackers. In other words, they are claiming that he should be put to death because of his inactions rather than his actions. "It?s enough of a stretch to get juries to convict people who drive getaway cars in a murder of conspiracy," says one government security lawyer not involved in the case. "But these prosecutors think Moussaoui should...
...lawyers disobeyed her order that Moussaoui's legal team be allowed to interview captured al-Qaeda leaders that they claimed might clear their client, a ruling a higher court eventually overturned. And as recently as last week, Brinkema admonished prosecutor David Novak for posing an inappropriate question to an FBI agent who was testifying during the jury trial. "I don't think in the annals of criminal law there has ever been a case with this many significant problems," Judge Brinkema complained...
...degrading business, the films are now serving the unintended function of instructing vulnerable juveniles how to work with a pimp and indoctrinating them into the world's oldest profession. "We see this across the board in terms of pimps using videos to glamorize and glorify the profession," says FBI spokesman Paul Bresson...