Posted on 11/12/2003 2:41:19 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Despite NewsMax.com's dogged efforts to get the federal government to explain why a self-described "anarchist" who allegedly planned terrorist bombings of U.S. military bases is getting off with a slap on the wrist, the feds don't want to discuss the case. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Western Washington told us that Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Hamilton, who accepted a plea agreement that could have the "peacenik" would-be terrorist out of jail and home by Christmas, is out of the office and will not be back until Monday. NewsMax.com will contact him then and seek to learn why he believed that the excessively light sentence was appropriate for a person who might have killed American service men and women had he not been apprehended, and whose light sentence could encourage other attacks by domestic terrorists. His superiors in the Department of Justice in the nation's capital did not return our phone calls today. We have the same questions for them. Even the potential victims - the bases Paul Douglas Revak allegedly said he was targeting - are unwilling to comment. When we asked an official spokesman for the Coast Guard station in Bellingham, Wash., for reaction to Revak's threat, we got a polite but terse "No comment." When we pressed a young Coast Guardsman we reached on the base for an off-the-record reaction, he also declined to comment. We have been unable to obtain reactions for the other bases threatened, which included the Washington Air National Guard station and the Army National Guard base in Bellingham and Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Oak Harbor.
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