[CLUE-Talk] Anyone heard about this? Free Mike Hawash

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:19:43 -0600
"G. Richard Raab" <rraab at 12-254-22-176.client.attbi.com> wrote:

> > As to Hawash, I note that part of the agreement is that he provide
> > info and testimony WRT the rest of the Portland 7, and presumably,
> > anybody else he's aware of. I think this is telling. 
> > If he had told prosecutors, "I  accept a plea bargain, but I'm afraid
> > I just 
> don't have the information
> > you're after", would that have been reported? Probably not -- we'd
> > have heard only that he accepted a plea arrangement, and the barest of
> > the terms of it.
> 
> So what is the info? If it is real, we will be hearing about it. This
> admin is not totally stupid. They know that there is alot of marketing
> involved here. You can bet on it that they will say that Mike told them
> so and so and it proved true. If it is not forthcoming, then I will
> assume that they pulled a fast one.

The wheels of [in]justice grind slowly. It might be that absent FOIA
requests, a lot of it won't be made public, and very few people will know
all the facts. You're right about the marketing aspects of it though. But
don't hold your breath for anything to be forthcoming.

jed
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