Pressuring the judiciary to the will of Bushco's agenda

you can only imagine the back-channel communication that took place between brinkema and the bushco minions...

The death-penalty trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is back on track after a judge reversed course and agreed to admit some evidence about aviation security.

U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema relented Friday from her earlier order barring all such testimony. She had issued that ruling Tuesday as punishment for the alleged misconduct of Transportation Security Administration lawyer Carla J. Martin, who coached witnesses.

"It would be unfortunate if this case could not go forward to some final resolution," Brinkema told trial attorneys in a telephone conference.

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The judge accepted a compromise proposal by the government. It allows prosecutors to present limited testimony about what the government could have done to enhance aviation security before the Sept. 11 attacks if Moussaoui had not lied to FBI agents Aug. 16-17, 2001, about his al-Qaida membership and plans to crash a jetliner into the White House.

Prosecutors had told Brinkema their case would be gutted without at least some testimony on aviation security. While they disputed her ruling that the aviation security evidence was contaminated beyond repair by Martin, prosecutors suggested using a new, substitute witness and documents that Martin had no contact with.

if this case went down in flames south (pardon the pun, it was unintentional but too good to strike completely), bush might as well forget trying to convince the american people that he's serious about national security and terrorism...

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