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  • Terrorist Ressam gets 22 years (Our fine legal system at work)

    07/27/2005 2:30:01 PM PDT · by HowDareYouQuestionMy · 15 replies · 659+ views
    CBS News/Associated Press ^ | 07/27/2005 | CBS/AP
    The Algerian man convicted of plotting to blow up the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium was sentenced Wednesday to 22 years in prison. Ahmed Ressam got a lighter sentence than prosecutors had requested, reflecting his cooperation in telling international investigators about the workings of terror camps in Afghanistan. ... In sentencing Ressam, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour said he hoped to balance U.S. resolve to punish potential terrorist acts with Ressam's cooperation. Coughenour also said he hoped to send a message that the U.S. court system works in terrorism cases. "We did not need to...
  • Levin: Declassify The Other Gorelick Memo

    04/16/2004 9:17:43 AM PDT · by kattracks · 141 replies · 456+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | 4/16/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
    The next shoe to drop in the Gorelick-gate scandal may be a still-classified report on the Millennium bomb plot that faults Gorelick's "wall" of separation between prosecutors and intelligence gatherers for nearly blowing the Millennium Bomb Plot probe. Writing in National Review Online, Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark Levin notes that the Commission is sitting on a damaging post-Millennium-Plot report that chronicles the impact of Gorelick's terrorist-friendly directive, which Attorney General John Ashcroft alluded to on during his Wednesday testimony. Dubbed the Millennium After Action Review by the Clinton National Security Council, Ashcroft said the report chronicles how al...