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Rowley and her colleagues continued to plead their case. Her memo rails against but doesn't name a handful of midlevel officials who "almost inexplicably" blocked "Minneapolis' by now desperate efforts to obtain a FISA search warrant... HQ personnel brought up almost ridiculous questions in their apparent efforts to undermine the probable cause." One supervisor complained that there might be plenty of men named Zacarias Moussaoui in France; how did the agents know this was the same man? (The agents checked the Paris phone books and found but one Moussaoui.) At another point the field office tried to bypass their...
...Providence and Boston, plaintiffs' research has yielded some detail on the scope of church enterprises. But no matter how opulent their headquarters or how many seaside retreats their subsidiaries operate, the archdioceses and dioceses generally plead poverty--and tend to get away with it. Los Angeles attorney Katherine Freberg recalls trying in vain to get around California laws preventing access to church documents in a sex-abuse case last year. By releasing so little financial information, the Los Angeles archdiocese and Orange County diocese, reputed to be among the wealthiest in the country, were able to negotiate a relatively small...
...party. And like all red-blooded Americans, Traficant has a deep, abiding hatred of the Internal Revenue Service, which he often dubbed the “Internal Rectal Service” in his famous one-minutes speeches on the floor of the House. In those rants, Traficant would often plead “Beam me up, Mr. Speaker!” Regardless of his guilt, Congress will be weaker—and certainly duller—because of his absence...
Playing into the hands of billionaire pro-legalization forces like George Soros, the Staff wrongly gives the impression that a quarter of a million harmless pot smokers were arrested and locked up in jail. In fact, that number represents many different contexts: people who plead down from trafficking to possession; people with other more serious crimes which they have been arrested for, in addition to marijuana use; or those who are cited for smoking pot in a public place and are fined about $100, as with a parking ticket. As the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reported, only 7,000 people...
Since the co-defendants continued to plead not guilty, the criminal proceedings against them will continue—and could extend beyond the June graduation date for the class of 2002 unless they accept a plea bargain...