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...professionals, Bush tried to put the transatlantic alliance into perspective. After 9/11, he said, the U.S. and Europe developed very different views about global security - and he conceded that occasionally caused leaders to mistake each other's meaning. "Sometimes we talk past each other," said the President, "and I plead guilty at times...
John Walker Lindh November 2001 Found in Afghanistan, he was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and providing support to al-Qaeda Lindh agreed to plead guilty to aiding the Taliban and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. After Hamdi's release, lawyers for Lindh petitioned the court to give him a shorter sentence...
...which he allegedly failed to report earnings, including his $1 million winnings from the show; in Providence, R.I. Though he could receive 10 years in jail, the U.S. Attorney's office said it would recommend a lesser sentence as part of a deal in which Hatch agreed to plead guilty...
...it’s no use. They’ll turn you away and make you sit in the cold and rain even though all you’re wearing is a long sleeve t-shirt and three other writers from your newspaper are inside and they all plead with them to let you in. But I digress?...
...When Jenkins arrived at his one-day general court-martial more than seven weeks later, he had won a pretrial agreement in which he would plead guilty only to desertion and aiding the enemy (for the time he spent teaching English). In exchange, his penalty would be a maximum 30 days' confinement, a demotion to private, forfeiture of all pay and benefits and a dishonorable discharge. Military-law experts assume Jenkins won this relatively lenient treatment in exchange for providing intelligence about North Korean spy programs. Neither Jenkins nor the U.S. government will comment on any such discussions...