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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]

  • @Amerigo (and @Theodore Rigley)

    Tough to get from Olympia to the University of Washington in 48 minutes? Try virtually impossible at 7-8PM unless I-5 has been cleared of traffic. Using the state capitol building (which is in the central-north area of Olympia) to the U District as a rough measure of distance, you get approximately 65 miles. In order to get there in 48 minutes, she would have had to have been driving at a sustained speed of close to 90MPH. Given the typical slowdowns in Tacoma (near the Tacoma Dome), Tukwila (near SouthCenter Mall) and Seattle (through downtown), a sustained speed of 90MPH would have been highly unlikely. You're lucky if you can do 50MPH in good conditions.

    I don't know if Waters was, in fact, involved with the arson at UW, but at the very least, the information regarding her presence in Olympia at 7:12PM is extremely damaging to the case.

    -- crunchette
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    Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:19 AM
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