U.S. Must Submit Papers to Moussaoui Team (Brinkema orders)

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has ordered the government to give admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui's defense team documents describing what officials knew before Sept. 11, 2001, about al-Qaida threats and some of its hijackers.
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"Several of the categories of information are so critical to the issues in this case that the court can address some of the requests without a response," Brinkema wrote. "Moreover, given the increasingly shortening time before the start of the trial, discovery issues must be resolved quickly."

Granted Tuesday under seal, her order was released Wednesday after government censors blacked out about five lines of it.

She ordered the government to immediately turn over any threat assessments, especially those completed in the year before the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Brinkema also ordered that she be given both an unclassified and a classified version of a CIA inspector general report. Defense attorneys already have seen the unclassified version, but Brinkema said she wanted to determine for herself that the deletions from the original were appropriate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012501569.html

[HuffleClaw]

1. yes, but will they?

not too bloody likely. they'll likely play a cute game, blacking out 'sensitive' information and then simply 'misplacing' stuff, the usual games these assholes play.

[Lochloosa]

2. Oh, never mind...he wasn't a terrorist after all...

[hang a left]

3. I thought he already plead guilty to something months back??

My brain is on overload so forgive me.