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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you think? Moussaoui's case seems to be going better than T. McVeigh's went. Sometimes the tactic of asking for insanely unreasonable things and rambling on about your theories might be the best defense. Maybe it depends on how bad your case is to start with.
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Moussaoui (I'll take your word on the spelling) is a special case. When the government says "We told everybody that you're a member of a criminal conspiracy, but we won't allow you to subpoena any of them to testify even though it's leaked that they say you weren't part of the conspiracy because you were too stupid and couldn't be trusted, because what these people have to say is a matter of national security," even an idiot could convince the judge that something's rotten in the state of Ashcroft.
The DOJ will get some mileage out of convincing the public that liberal judges don't care about terrorism, and then convict Moussaoui of miscellaneous visa violations or whatever and declare victory. The sad part is, he's probably good for it.
