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...TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon attended the hearing, and here she weighs in on the developing Hanssen case...
...Shannon: This was a pretrial hearing to decide whether or not Hanssen should be granted bail...
...Shannon: She decided Hanssen poses an extreme risk of flight - when they picked him up, he had his passport with him, and statements pertaining to a Swiss bank account. She also said the evidence against him was "extraordinarily strong...
...Shannon: Not yet. And Cacheris says he will plead not guilty. The government decided to hold off on calling witnesses before a grand jury until they had Hanssen in custody - they worried that word might leak out that they were building a case against him. But now Hanssen's defense team agreed to waive the customary preliminary hearing, which means they'll get to see a lot more of the government's case against Hanssen and prepare using that information. And the government gets to skip the first hearing and work on gathering information against Hanssen...
...With reporting by Ann Blackman, James Carney, Elaine Shannon and Michael Weisskopf/Washington and John Cloud and Amanda Ripley/New York...