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Is Briana Waters a terrorist?
In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism policies to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.
By Tracy Tullis [2008-03-27]

  • Tangential

    Now did she or did she not do it? Who knows, and that's the problem. Now could there have been a real reason that the whole '65 miles away, 45 minutes before' thing could have been explained? Maybe. But it raises doubts, in my mind enough that I wouldn't say she was guilty.

    Yes, but this is tangential. Prosecution says conspirators met at restaurant at 8:00 p.m. She could not have been there until 8:15 p.m. Maybe she was late and the others were there. Maybe the prosecution was a bit off on the time of the meeting.

    But the bomb went off in the small hours of the morning.

    This discrepancy on the time does not work in favor of the prosecution, but it hardly destroys the whole case.

    If this small point raises enough doubts in your mind not to convict, then clearly you are looking for any out you can find.

    -- Amerigo
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    Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:36 AM
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