Free Republic

USPS Whistleblower Richard Hopkins: 'I DID NOT RECANT' "Washington Post‘s Shawn Boburg and Jacob Bogage have been played by the same federal agents that are on the audio coercing the whistleblower to recant. AUDIO TAPES OF COERCION TO BE RELEASED..."- James OKeefe

Agent Strasser: “I am trying to twist you a little bit” “I am scaring you here”...” we have Senators involved...DOJ involved...reason they called me is to try to harness that storm.”

Ahmed Ressam was resentenced this morning to 22 years in federal prison for conspiring to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport despite telling a judge that he recanted everything he has told the federal government about terrorist activities. Federal prosecutors had urged U.S. District Judge John Coughenour to send Ressam to prison for life — a sentence Ressam said he would accept now that he had cleared his conscience about his cooperation, which ended in 2003. Prosecutors pointed out that Ressam's defiance has cost two high-profile terrorism prosecutions so far, and that Ressam has actively tried to help the cases...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Seven people pleaded guilty for their part in abusing Megan Williams -- but now Williams says that abuse never happened. She will hold a press conference Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, to recant her claims of abuse, attorney Byron L. Potts, who represents Williams, told The Charleston Gazette on Tuesday night. "She has decided she has been living this lie for approximately two years and she has decided to tell the truth," Potts said. "She fabricated the story and she did this in retaliation because she was having a relationship with one of them."

Bryant's attorneys want open records Kobe Bryant's alleged victim took back part of her statements to investigators just one month before her case was dismissed, according to court documents made public Monday. Bryant's legal team on Monday announced it is dropping its request that the Los Angeles Lakers star's arrest and criminal records be sealed, noting that Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert last week had filed his own opposition to those records being sealed. In joining the prosecution's advocacy that Bryant records should now be open to public inspection, defense lawyer Pamela Mackey stated in a new case filing...

The ex-military man who first launched charges during the 2000 presidential campaign that President Bush had gone AWOL from the National Guard has recanted his story. The account from Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed, who told the Boston Globe four years ago that Bush never showed for Guard drills with his Alabama unit, had become the centerpiece of Democratic attacks on the White House in recent days. "Had [Bush] reported in, I would have had some recall, and I do not," Gen. Turnipseed told the Globe in May 2000. "I had been in Texas, done my flight training there. If we...

An American who fought with the Taliban spoke with the FBI only to escape horrible prision conditions, his lawyers say. The assertion by John Walker Lindh's defense team is the latest challenge to potentially incriminating statements he made during capitvity.Lindh's responses to the FBI formed a major part of the indictment against him.Lindh, 21, is charged with conspiring to kill Americans, providing support to terrorists, including Osama bin Laden's Al Qaida, and using firearms during crimes of violence. Three of the 10 charges carry a maximum life sentence and the other seven could bring an additional 90 years in prision.The...