Even If It Ain't Broke, We Are Going To Fix The Facts Anyway

It occured to me on my AM run that the whole situation surrounding the sentencing hearings for Moussaoui are a complete reflection of the W, Rove and Co tendency to want to fix facts around a particular end. The means by which they try to accomplish these aims are often extra-legal and in some cases can be legitimately found to be downright illegal.

Falling victim to the culture of corruption laced throughout the W, Rove and Co opperation, the prosocution, it seems, felt they needed to sew up this "victory" by skirting the procedural legality that says you can't really coach witnesses beyond a certain degree. Oddly, you would think the "culture of lifer" types would be happy about the possiblity of the death penalty being taken off the table for Moussaoui, but no doubt they are fuming over this very possiblity.

The man gave us a confession, boldly proclaiming loyalty to OBL. With nary a thing broken with this case, the government breaks it by intentionally fixing the witnesses? My goodness. Why did they feel they needed to do this that way and that they could get away with it?

In all my years on the bench, I've never seen a more egregious violation of the rule about witnesses. LEONIE M. BRINKEMA, federal judge in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui.

Wouldn't it be ultimately ironic if Moussaoui got off the hook completely and set free becuase the courts found that his rights, as garunteed by the Constitution, were violated when he had his phones wiretapped with no warrant? This is why I am totally against the warrantless wire tapping of people, particularly since a warrant can be gotten, retroactively even, through FISA fairly swiftly.