Trial and error - Moussaoui case - Asscroft

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 From the get-go, the trial of so-called “20th hijacker” Zacarias Moussaoui has been hamstrung by a Justice Department that seemingly wanted one prosecution to serve half a dozen irreconcilable ends. With a single deft trial, Attorney General John Ashcroft had hoped to avenge the evil of Sept. 11 for all Americans, while showcasing the even-handedness of the American justice system for the rest of the world. Ashcroft wanted to soothe us with proven legal truths: He did it, and he paid for it with his life.

AND ASHCROFT thought he could demonstrate to terrorists everywhere that transparency and due process would triumph over theocracy and prejudice. But as this prosecution unravels, indecision on the part of the Justice Department reveals nothing less than the government’s own lack of faith in the courts.
       Moussaoui — intent on defending himself — undid the government by using transparency and due process to embarrass the prosecution and allegedly compromise national security. The man refused to go quietly, insisting on challenging the evidence against him and exercising his full range of rights as a criminal defendant. The prosecution — applying a broad new theory of conspiracy law — didn’t help matters by filing an indictment shot through with circumstantial evidence and unsupported speculation. And so Moussaoui, considered nuttier than a Snickers bar when this trial began almost a year ago, suddenly looks like a Jeremiah. His ongoing contention — that the proceedings are nothing more than a “death show trial” jiggered to result in his execution — suddenly looks to be true.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/943531.asp?0cv=CB20


United States Constitution Justice: Evidence; Warrant; Arrest; Trial; Judgement

pResident Justice: Talk hearsay; Get the GOP Media Whores to talk hearsay; murder the suspect.

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1. How the attorney general lost the Moussaoui trial before it began.

Above is Slates original first sentence, or second title.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2085997/

Below is what MSGOP edited it to.

On Moussaoui case, has the Justice Department lost faith in the courts?

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2. That makes two.

The "Justice" Dept. also completely blew the John Walker Lindh case--some kind of thing. Asscrack came out front foaming at the mouth for the death penalty and damn the evidence.

That psycho really wants to hang *somebody*, due process or no. Consequently, his minions went totally overboard on procedural irregularities. Seymour Hersh's New Yorker piece (I think it was him) more or less indicated that Lindh might have walked at trial, assuming an unbiased jury--or that most of the charges against him would have been summarily dismissed. He copped a plea to a few of the lesser charges and the rest... well, they went away.

These clowns are complete idiots.