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In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism policies to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.
  • Thoughts

    Well, when you retool the FBI to combat domestic terrorism, then everything looks like terror.

    Also, I wonder if juries in "big" crimes sometimes feel that someone needs to be responsible, so why not the person on trial? They must be somewhat guilty, at least, otherwise they wouldn't get to trial, right? I don't know if that's the case here, but I suspect some psychologist has studied such a thing.

    As far as this particular case is concerned, I really don't have enough information about the case and trial to know if Briana Waters is guilty or not, and I likely will never really know. It reminds me of a case involving a childhood friend who was convicted of murder on generally circumstantial evidence when there was hard evidence that would have required him to drive approx 100 miles at 90 mph to commit the crime, then do the same thing to complete the round trip. From what I understand, it seems really unlikely that he committed the crime, yet he's in jail for it now.