Just last week, “Jurors deadlock in 6 of 7 defendants in Sears Tower plot"
MIAMI - One of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was acquitted Thursday, and a mistrial was declared for the six others after the federal jury deadlocked.
The mistrial means prosecutors will have to decide whether to retry the six men.
The outcome was a setback for the Bush administration, which had seized on the case to illustrate the dangers of homegrown terrorism and trumpet the government's post-Sept. 11 success in infiltrating and smashing terror plots in their very earliest stages.
Lyglenson Lemorin, who was not the alleged ringleader, was acquitted.
Judge: White House logs are public
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - White House visitor logs are public documents, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a legal strategy that the Bush administration had hoped would get around public records laws.
2007-12-17
07:46:19
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The ruling is a blow to the Bush administration and prominent religious conservatives.
Visitor records are created by the Secret Service, which is subject to the Freedom of Information Act. But the Bush administration has ordered the data turned over to the White House, where they are treated as presidential records outside the scope of the public records law.
But U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled logs from the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's residence remain Secret Service documents and are subject to public records requests.
In a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, Lamberth ordered the Secret Service to turn over visitor logs regarding nine conservative religious commentators, including James Dobson, Gary Bauer and Jerry Falwell.
"I think it's hugely significant," said Anne L. Weismann, the watchdog group's chief counsel.
2007-12-17
07:47:25 ·
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"The judge saw their arguments for what they were."
In a separate case, CREW had sought an order declaring illegal a Bush administration policy under which the Secret Service destroys its copies of the logs once they are turned over to the White House.
AT WHAT POINT DO REPUBLICANS ADMITT BUSH ADM IS CORUPT??
IF lying about oral sex is impeachable, What about lying about the comings and goings?
2007-12-17
07:47:50 ·
update #2