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Why U.S. accepted plea bargain ANALYSIS: Trial would pose risks for government...secrecy
SF Chronicle ^
| 7-16-02
| Marc Sandalow
Posted on 07/16/2002 3:47:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Washington -- By reaching a plea bargain with a man accused by the attorney general of fighting "side by side with tyrants," the government swiftly eliminated the risk of bringing unwanted attention to the underside of the U.S. war against terror.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americantaliban; johnwalkerlindh; plea; prison; terrorism
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Lindh should have been HANGED for treason.
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posted on
07/16/2002 3:53:33 AM PDT
by
bok
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Despite the inevitable haranguing on this and similar threads, this was a good deal. This was a stupid kid who got in way over his head. Forty years sounds like it's more than adequate. With respect to the Spann family, there's little evidence Lindh had anything to do with Mike's death.
Meanwhile, we don't give the radical Left a chance to grandstand, and eke out valuable intelligence information.
It's time to move on to more important topics, like how to destroy terrorism that directly affects America.
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posted on
07/16/2002 4:14:16 AM PDT
by
Illbay
To: Illbay
Lind was questioned by Span. Span was a federal agent. Lind a US citizen. Lind told the others that Span was CIA. Lind instigated, if not led, the revolt. Conspiring with others to kill a federal agent is a death sentence crime. Hence the total swallow down of the goverments offer by Lind and his lawyers. It was this or death/life.
On another theme, Lind is now on the Rosenburgs/Hiss was a hero path. Watch the spin and invention in the press. I predict sob story NYTimes sunday feature, 60 minutes hand holding with his parents, Missy Lind and his mother, et al...
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posted on
07/16/2002 4:26:28 AM PDT
by
Leisler
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Too much news emphasis on Walker Lindh would have become a distracting sideshow." Yeah, exactly why we should be using military tribunals for these traitors. This Duke professor was probably one of the same elite academics screaming that a tribunal would violate Jihad Johnny's civil rights. I could just scream!
Did you see Mike Spamm's wife on Fox last night? My heart breaks for her and their children. He was a true hero.
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posted on
07/16/2002 4:29:39 AM PDT
by
PLK
To: Leisler
My three-year-old grandson will be finished with college before Lindh gets out. That sounds right to me.
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posted on
07/16/2002 4:31:37 AM PDT
by
Illbay
To: PLK
Spamm's = Spann's
big typo, sorry
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posted on
07/16/2002 4:32:10 AM PDT
by
PLK
To: Oldeconomybuyer
He should serve his time in a non-segregated confinement with the general prison population after the government has leaked that he has given them significant information about the Taliban. Heh heh heh.
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posted on
07/16/2002 4:36:39 AM PDT
by
SC DOC
To: Oldeconomybuyer
A firing squad and let him rot where he drops in Afghanistan should have been Johnny Jihad's fate. Sympathy for the criminal is TREASON to the victim(s)...the Spann family, WTC families, your family, my family.
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posted on
07/16/2002 4:42:12 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: SC DOC
I suspect Jihad Johnny will be required to wear a burka by his new prison pals when they play "Pin the Tail of the Taliban" ...
![](http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20020716/thumb.1026792675.lindhs_journey_wx106.jpg) |
This image from the CNN show" People in the News" shows a bearded and bedraggled John Walker Lindh being interviewed in Afghanistan Dec. 2, 2001. Lindh, now clean shaven with short hair, has admitted his association with the Taliban and may face 20 years in jail; another step in his journey that began with visits to evangelical San Francisco mosques when he was 16 years old. (AP Photo/CNN) - Jul 16 12:09 AM ET |
To: SC DOC
I agree that he should simply be placed in the general population in the hardest prison in the federal system. And the new 'jack ruby' should have his sentence commuted.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
No matter how strong the evidence, the high-profile trial threatened to expose intelligence sources or secret information gleaned from Taliban prisoners. It was also certain to shine a spotlight on the harsh treatment of prisoners under American control in Afghanistan. No, it was only certain to give Lindh's attorney massive air time to spew lies. The deal was OK, not because there was anything to cover up, but because the left would have a field day feuling the lies and spreading anti-American propaganda. Not that this deal is gonna stop that.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The only hopeful note in this is that future troopers might be strongly inclined to make certain that any "american taliban" they uncover during normal operations do NOT make their way into custody.
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posted on
07/16/2002 6:32:34 AM PDT
by
norton
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The only hopeful note in this is that future troopers might be strongly inclined to make certain that any "american taliban" they uncover during normal operations do NOT make their way into custody.
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posted on
07/16/2002 6:32:55 AM PDT
by
norton
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