Someone help me out here, RE: Moussaoui and Giuliani

[eauclaireliberal]

Why was Rudolph Giuliani allowed to testify at Moussaoui's trail? Did he have direct knowledge of the "9-11 plot?" No. Did he know anyone involved? No. So what else other than a Thug getting the jury to cry over 9-11?

Anyone?

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Because Guiliani is a publicity pig.

[eauclaireliberal]

2. RE: Because Guiliani is a publicity pig.

For all we know, fuckhead was getting fellated in a men's room somewhere when the planes hit. BushCo's thugs must have gleefully wet their panties when Guiliani was allowed to take the stand.

[babylonsister]

3. Deflecting attention from the real criminals, the federal government

for at least gross incompetence, at most complicity.
And to keep everyone scared!

[pretzel4gore]

4. it's like Haiti under Papa Doc!

Someone was arrested for saying Papa Doc was a devil, so the man's son was arrested, then his friend who was in the Haiti army. He was charged with 'unlawful associations' and tried! He was a soldier who hadn't even seen his friend for several months, and the friend was actually estranged from his father, who was drunk when he made the silly statement about Papa Doc being the devil. In the end, the brother in law of the soldier was executed (for unlawful associations) after the soldier and his wife escaped jail and fled to france....

[PetraPooh]

5. Just out of curiosity, if Mousaoui had gotten a lawyer when he was

arrested and simply refused to answer any questions, would he be in the trouble he is in now? Seems really bizarre to me that someone can be approaching the death penatly for not being entirely honest with a police force that is approved by the USSC to not have to be honest to the person they are interrogating. We've seen things like co-erced confessions through police forces lying to the supposed perpetrator about forensics and witnesses and all manner of lies. How can it be that someone who was in jail, clearly not working with a full deck, and who spoke at least part of the truth is in line for the death penalty. Too bizarre. Did he have Miranda rights?

[Igel]

6. He wasn't involved, IIRC, in establishing whether the

death penalty could be imposed. That's when you'd want the kind of witness you mention.

During the tear-jerker 'please recommend the death penalty' portion all of that is water under the bridge. That's when you want people that can say "I saw people fling themselves out of the window, on fire" or "I saw people whose toes were pushed out their eyesockets by the force of the explosion" or whatever. The grimmer and more horrifying, the better.

He was on site fairly quickly, saw what happened, and was as reliable a witness as to what occurred that morning as anybody else. He was probably readily available to testify, and had name recognition for the jurors. I'm guessing they also had a few 'common man' witnesses for the same stuff, for those disposed to not like 'big names'.